You know, 13 Does obviously connect to Tesla on a level she doesn’t to anybody else because she actually sees herself in him, and i mean, it Must be so Soothing to see yourself in somebody who you admire for a change (cuz yeah... we all know who the doctor compares themselves too most of the time).
But, anyway, I think Graham also did his own relating to Tesla.
When Edison drags Graham over the idea that the Brits have no business sense, he doesn’t actually say anything, but in the next scene Graham calls him on how he Bets Edison would like to have Tesla back now he’s seen his workshop, and uses an anecdote about how he had a supervisor at the bus depot who also only cared about his employees if he gained something by doing so as well.
Graham compares Tesla’s situation with Edison to His old situation back at work when he was a bus driver. Graham feels kinship with Tesla because he recognises that no matter how different the jobs they were/are doing, both of them were under the whims of some guy whose only thought was to make money, not anything about them.
This is the second episode in a row to place the disdain Firmly at the hand of the capitalist rather than A) Tesla whose motivations play Only in the advancement of technology and sciences or B) Graham the bus driver, who loved his job because it helped people, offered a needed service, was doing something for other people.
The bad guys are the lousy supervisor and Edison, whose motivations are selfish and money grabbing. Following on from orphan 55 with this is a good bit of continuity in the message, captialism lousyness isn’t always earth destroying horror from the 1%, it’s the little things from seemingly ordinary people trying to make a fast buck, too.
