I've always felt that "Relative Universe" will not be finished (Starz booked two seasons in one go), and after watching the seventh episode, this idea is firmed: Although this episode has nothing to do with the protagonists such as Howard, Claire and Quill teamed up and still presented a wonderful story. More importantly, the episode filled the pits without digging them. A drama that knows how to close the lines and lay out at the same time, it is obvious that " there are hills and valleys in the chest, and the writing is like a god ".
As for the emotional scenes that are too "tired and crooked" in the play, some viewers can't watch it anymore. They feel that they have little to do with the theme and are too overwhelming... In fact, this is an indispensable part of the play. Throughout the ages, no one can get around it. Open a "love" word.
Timeline can be sorted out
With the help of TV news and classroom teaching, this episode can basically figure out the timeline, as long as the content is correct.
In 1987, the world replicated itself , and two identical parallel mirror worlds emerged.
In 1991, the Cold War ended, and the outcome was unknown. The reader reminded me that I did have some inaccuracies in the first episode. Russia is not necessarily Russia, but may also refer to the Soviet Union. (pending)
In 1992 or 1993, someone from world A secretly infiltrated world B and brought a deadly virus with them.
In 1993, the two sides signed the 1993 Agreement, which made it illegal to conduct any covert operations across the border between the two worlds.
From 1993 to 1997, the influenza virus was prevalent in Germany, with a concentrated outbreak in 1996, causing millions of deaths, and began to spread throughout Europe.
There is a sentence worth noting: "The villages on the plateau have been confirmed many times that the probability of contracting the disease on the longitude is very low, but the tragedy happened. This is another signal that the 'Munich virus' has become stronger." Preliminary understanding, Cold temperatures can reduce infection rates, and the virus may have been first discovered in Munich.
In 1999, European countries outlawed the sale of tobacco.
This basically confirms the previous idea that cigarettes are drugs in the B world , and their properties are similar to marijuana in the real world (depending on whether it is legal or not). Combined with the previous point, the "heat source" may be an important condition for the spread of influenza.
In the 21st century, the flu virus has finally been contained. (pending)
In addition, the virus was found to be transmitted through live pigs , so pigs in world A are still an important source of meat, while pigs in world B are probably extinct.
Students said that "their mobile phones are more advanced than ours", which also shows that world A has many technologies ahead of world B (the mobile phone of the dead agent at the beginning of the first episode is a bit confusing).
The above timeline is mainly based on the B world. There are omissions and inappropriate things. You are welcome to add them.
The growth of female spy
The core protagonist of this episode is Claire. Through her life trajectory, we have also seen the true face of the "school" in the B world.
In 1997, Claire's parents both died of the flu, and she was sent to "school" for training.
Here you can see the "school"'s criteria for selecting children - orphans are of course the most ideal training objects, they have nothing to worry about, they have excellent hate genes the day after tomorrow , to be spies, agents, killers, "faith and willpower" It is very important to start with the doll.
But there is another situation to consider: World A's "self" largely determines its importance, so in addition to ordinary orphans, there are probably some children with "special status" who are also sent to school.
Are Claire's parents really dead? Or really die from the flu? Will Fancher B also appear in the future? These are unstoppable ideas.
All the students are part of the "Indigo" project, and everyone is actually a "shadow" . For example, Spencer B has to wear braces with Spencer A, who has never met, and live as each other's "shadow".
Claire is no exception. The "self" who was favored by her parents broke her leg, and she must stay awake and suffer from her broken leg...
This is the creepiest part of "school" where kids have to erase their "self" from elementary school.
This is full of lies. Mrs. Mira said that "the most painful place is over soon", in fact, the most painful place has just begun.
When Claire was still "wanting to go home and miss her parents", Ms. Mira taught her " it's time to shed her skin, grow new armor, and strengthen it with anger "; after her leg was broken, the teacher told her that another world existed, And teach her that she should hate each other.
They invented the virus and wanted to eliminate us, and what you and I are doing now is to teach them a lesson in the future and pay the price for what happened to us.
In the "school", the children read "On the other side, I can be a different me" every day, and during and outside the classroom, they also need to understand and remember everything about the "self" in the A world.
As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison. "Schools" can implement the most successful hatred education as long as they take advantage of the situation.
On the one hand, students receive information about "self" in world A every day, and watch each other live a happy (at least peaceful) childhood on the other side; Growing up in this kind of environment, can the psychology be twisted?
"School" not only preaches the principles of heaven all day long, but also destroys human desires. Seeing that Claire is the key target of training, it is necessary to eliminate all factors that may hinder her. The boy Spencer was immediately "removed" - as for whether he was recruited, dropped out of school, or "handled", no one knows.
It's normal for young Claire to have a good impression of boys, but it's not allowed here.
" Kill the girl in your heart and become a soldier ." This is Mr. Mira's earnest teaching.
To understand hatred, you must first feel anger and pain - Mira was overjoyed to see Claire feel the pain deeply, which means growth.
Finally, the girl who deserted at every turn became an outstanding student representative. After graduation, she stayed at the school and took care of educating the next generation to learn hatred.
The story of Claire telling Ethel about "a zebra alone" is the same as when Mira told herself "an antelope that doesn't fit in the group". road.
Why didn't Claire go to World A early in the morning? Through surveillance data, we learned that Fan Che and his wife lost their young daughter in their early years. Claire A is likely to be the only daughter in the family, so she has been spoiled since she was a child. Fan Che did not let her contact her work at all... Therefore, the highly anticipated The "star of the future" has actually become a useless person, and it is more valuable than staying in school to teach.
It wasn't until 2013, when Claire A and Quill got a partner, that things took a turn for the better, and she had to complete the "shadow" plan before Quill was promoted and his security level increased.
Pope handled the transit matters, fabricated the identity of a "diplomatic visit", and Lambert was in charge of receiving it. All these are all right, but here is a question: There are obviously many people in World B who have been stranded in World A for a long time and have not returned. Exit records and stipulated visa time, unless there are other smuggling channels, or world A is so undefended, allowing so many people to stay, it is too careless, is it because the sense of superiority acquiesce to the illegal immigrants of world B? This remains to be explained .
After Claire B settled down, she began to monitor Claire A, did her old homework, and continued to learn each other's every move, every word .
Compared to Claire B's calm and capable, Claire A is simply a silly little girl, carefree all day, like all girls who love to dream, she fell in love with handsome boys, became a virgin, and Broken up on the eve of the wedding because of broken dreams.
This is Claire B's best chance to give up—she certainly wanted to—but no one else would allow it, and Lambert's words couldn't be more clear: If she doesn't marry, you're worthless.
Now that you have the start-up capital, you can quickly hire a team to start the work. The "shadow" plan cannot be yellow.
Look at the people who Claire B hired to do things: they went to the house to rob, but they let Claire A run away easily. The two also let the landlord find out that when they saw the employer and the deceased, they thought they were relatives. …
Such an amateur, it is obviously a native of World A, or the kind that is not in the mainstream.
This explains why the espionage activities of World B have been kept secret for a long time. Except for the core personnel, the rest of the people who are responsible for the dirty work are unwitting locals , and the confidentiality is greatly improved.
If you don't believe it, you have to believe it
Quill is the best supporting character in this episode. First of all, make sure that he is really "in the family", and even the house belongs to Claire...
Although Quill kept saying before that he was able to sit in a high position on his own, he obviously didn't believe it himself.
World B decided to send Claire, precisely because of Claire A's relationship with Quill, Fancher "doesn't want her daughter to marry in a bad place", so she has long been ready to bring her prospective son-in-law.
The value of the "daughter of the foreign minister" cannot be brought into play, and the "wife of the minister of strategy" can be seen as a bright light, which is why the "school" is reluctant to dismiss Claire easily.
Speaking of Quill, the biggest suspect was already in front of him, but he still couldn't believe it. While leaving his wife for Howard B to search, he still suspected maids and babysitters...
Until Howard finds the familiar cyanide capsule, this is the last "escape" for the spies of the B world.
But at this time, Quill still didn't want to believe that the "good girl" in his eyes would be a spy lurking around him.
Quill never found out, just because he never doubted Claire - as long as he did, he could always find clues.
Bringing the secret working documents home, the safe password is the same as the mobile phone password, it is too easy for Claire to know... All indications at the same time show that Quill really wants to rely on his ability to rise, and probably will not be the head of the strategy department for a lifetime...
Howard went crazy, but finally determined who the ghost was. Think about it, Quill's vigilance is so poor, and his wife Claire is the best spy who can master his schedule.
Tao is "ruthless" but "feeling"
As the author who insisted on writing "Relative Universe" to the eighth review article, I have seen many different opinions and experiences on various platforms. Some viewers felt that the proportion of emotional scenes in the middle of the show was too large and too boring, which has already affected In terms of its essence as a "science fiction spy war drama", there are even those who have abandoned the drama.
These emotions are understandable, but I can only say that this is a matter of personal "taste preference", and there are no obvious mistakes in the show itself - on the contrary, the kind of absolutely precise, brain-burning, meticulous story is often just a fantasy, regardless of history. Reality, or literary and artistic creation, where there are people, there is sensibility and emotion, and these intangible things are the eternal and unknown variables.
Few people can be completely ruthless - Claire is also considered an "excellent graduate", since she was taught by her teachers "you can't have these feelings" and "you are not the kind of little girl who can dream", she seems to grow up. It also became what everyone wanted.
But actually?
After going to Claire A's room to install the camera, I met the old lady who had been chatting for a long time. She apologized and kissed goodbye, looking like a well-informed lady.
However, considering the fact that the other party complained about the garbage, and the words that Claire A said behind the back of the old lady during the surveillance, you can understand that she usually doesn't have that much respect for the elderly, at least she should be naughty and frivolous.
The two Claires are essentially two kinds of people - not like Howard, who spent their teenage years together, and Nadia, who witnessed her father's death together - they had completely different childhoods. The stars want the moon, but Claire B lost both her parents when she was young, swallowing up pain and bitterness .
When Claire B watched Claire A hand the first night to Quill, she couldn't help biting her fingers - even if she was taught that she couldn't, she still couldn't change it.
No matter how much Claire B learns to be like Claire A, she is still essentially herself, restrained and quiet, lacking that squeamishness and playfulness.
She had never tasted the love between men and women, and was unwilling to let Lambert help open the buds, so Claire had to go to the bar to find a one-night stand...
From the look on her face of being out of the way, you should know that Claire B has long lost the hope and motivation of "love", and she doesn't know how to enjoy and has no desire.
I've imagined many scenarios in which Claire B kills Claire A, but I didn't expect it to be the most direct and impactful one: strangulation in the face.
This scene also shows that Claire has completely embraced the "incompetent" self , giving up the necessary struggle to make a delicate "shadow".
The above are all predictable things, but the real heart-shaking plot is unforeseeable later-when Quill let himself take medicine like crazy, Claire said with relief, "Let the capsule expire", she didn't want to die.
Although this does not fully explain Claire's true intentions, at least one thing is certain, which is her next sentence: "In my life, nothing is my own, but now it is different."
After a few years of marriage, Claire gave birth to her and Quill's child (time and psychologically she had no conditions to cheat), when the child who appeared in front of her ten months after her pregnancy sucked her own milk, when she named the child St. While Pence, Claire suddenly has the ability and drive to "love" again.
This is the biggest reason why Claire's mental state has become less and less "clean" recently.
To a certain extent, Quill is as "gaffe" as Claire - since his wife is a spy, his next best course of action is to follow Howard's advice and take advantage of "she doesn't know yet" to follow suit and take Claire's attention The spy network behind him was uprooted, and he played the "birthday party" scene with a smile.
But after the party started, Quill was patient again and again, taking care of his own drinking, and couldn't help but dig old accounts at Claire when he gave a toast.
I believe that Quill really loved the person Claire A (not just the net worth behind her) - there is a difference between being a prostitute and looking for a lover. (This is controversial, please be gentle) - It was only after the marriage that his wife's "temperament changed greatly" that she gradually alienated her .
Quill originally thought that Claire became calm and calm after being robbed and humiliated after the breakup, but the more he thought about it, the more he realized that his lover was ripped off, because human nature will not change.
After the party, the husband and wife knew that they could no longer beat the riddle, and Quill even tore Claire to let her eat the poison "to complete the mission"...
As for the mission that he was supposed to accomplish, he had already forgotten all about it .
As supervisor-level spies and cadres, in fact, both Claire and Quill have "failed" . Whether it's an irrepressible mother's love or an impulsive showdown, they can be regarded as serious dereliction of duty. According to the "standards of their respective worlds" ", both of them are guilty, but are they wrong?
The unreasonable behavior is the bright color in dealing with the intellectual environment; the irresistible failure of the characters can be exchanged for the undefeated good works.
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