Snowpiercer TV Show - Engine Continues To Provide
A couple of weeks ago when we were discussing Netflix and its success, someone in the comments brought up Snowpiercer TV series. I have seen Snowpiercer, the movie before and remember it as one of the great movies. When I heard there was a TV show with the same name and the storyline, I had to look it up. Unfortunately, it wasn't available on Netflix, at not in the US. But I found the show on HBO+. On HBO+ there are two full seasons available. The new season 3 is not finished yet is still going on TNT. To watch season 3, you may need a subscription to TNT. I don't have TNT subscription, and will probably wait until season 3 is finished and is available on other streaming platforms like HBO+ or Netflix.
The Snowpiercer movie was great. What I normally enjoy about movies and tv shows is the storyline. I don't pay too much attention to cinematography and acting. I ranked they as I like it or not. However, I find myself having a conversation with the story presented and looking at the story from a critical point of view. In the movie the idea of train being a last hope for humanity, and last remaining humans surviving the extreme climate change in a train and living as a society is a unique one. The class system established within the train society and oppression and struggles of the lowest class know as tailies, their uprising and revolutions have portrayed that perhaps even at the end of times humans will just continue to behave as they have been throughout the history. I do find issues with this storyline, battle between evil and good, rich and poor may make a good movie. If you haven't watched the movie, I would highly recommend it. It is interesting and entertaining. If you already have seen the movie, I think you will love the TV show.
Snowpiercer TV show follows the same storyline of a train in the end of times carrying the last surviving humans. However, the storyline is not the exact same as in the movies. The movie, in my opinion, portrayed characters as either good or bad. The TV show makes the story even more interesting and realistic by allowing main characters to be both. There isn't necessarily good or bad for characters or situations in the series. Some may do good things for bad reasons, other do bad things for good intentions, etc. Characters evolve throughout the series, the society itself also changes and evolves as things progress. The story could take any turn at any moment, and it is not quite clear for the viewers where the story is heading. I think that makes the series more interesting and entertaining compared to the movie. Also, there are side stories for main characters to explain their motives and behavior.
So what happened? Earth was experiencing extreme level of global warming. The scientists came up with a solution and created a chemical solution CW7, which was suppose to cool down the Earth. This solution worked and Earth started cooling down. But it worked too well that now there was a global freezing problem. The entire planet froze and temperature outside went to extreme lows that no living thing could survive. Wilford Industries in the leadership of Mr. Wilford himself saw this problem happening in advance and started building a massive train that would become Noah Arc of this catastrophic events. Not only Wilford Industries build this 1001 cars long train, but they also built railroads that go around the globe and keep circling around the Earth endlessly. I don't quite understand how, but this train has self sustaining power and as long as it keeps moving it generates energy for it to keep moving and sustaining life in the train.
In real life I highly doubt anything like this would be possible. Yes, humans are smart and come up with all these technologies and keep gaining more and more knowledge and understanding of the universe. But everything we create does require some kind of human maintenance, without everything stops working really quick. So, I am not sure how it would be possible to build a train that can self sustain without any requirement for maintenance from the outside of the train. They do provide some sort of explanation that there are dedicated crew members who suit up and can go outside for repair work. But still. Anyway, still an interesting idea to explore.
The train is 1001 cars long, and each car is gigantic. Not like a regular train. Each have different sections to sustain life, farm animals, grow food, even a huge aquarium. The total population of train is about three thousand people. The train was designed for people who invested in Wilford industries, bought or were given tickets to board. However, before its departure there were many ordinary people who were trying to get on the train. Some were successful in doing so, but they ended up in the tail cars. Now my question is why they were only board the tail cars? There are thousand cars, they could have boarded everywhere. Or maybe they did and they were placed in the tail sections afterwards. That wasn't clear. Even then, with the population of only 3000 people in thousand cars long train, it seems there would be enough place for everybody. I guess if everything was great for everybody, there wouldn't be movie or a tv show.
I liked the flow of the story from one episode to another. They were able to keep the viewers attention throughout the series. They also did a great job in closing chapters and starting new ones between seasons. This idea is great, the story is great, stories within the story are great. I am sure there is a lot more that can be developed to this story and the destiny of the survivors in the train. So, I think this is turning out to be one of the successful TV shows. Have you seen the series yet? Let me know in the comments. If you haven't, I recommend watching it. If you think tv shows are too long to watch, you can always watch the movie. But remember, the tv show has a completely different story to tell.
Absolutely love it.
Been a good few years for science fiction series, the Expanse and Snowpiercer have been my two favorites.
Loving the new season too but it’s only a few episodes in.
Want to blow your mind?
Lmao 😆 nice!
Reminds me of the theory that the kid in Home Alone grows up and becomes Bruce Willis in Die Hard
Wow!!! That's a very cool hypothesis!!!!
Interesting theory. I am not convinced though.
Pretty crazy evidence.
I will definitely want to watch this
Story lines like this tend to hook me in. I'd love to see the series too. I think it should be an amazing survival quest!
This is my first time hearing about this series. I would definitely go check it out
These seem an interesting storyline. I will pay attention to watch the movie when I am available. Thanks for the recommendation.
I really love Snowpiercer series. I think the Tallie did board from all the trains but were forced to move to the tail section. I'm not sure though.
Thankfully its available on netflix in my country and the season 3 is out too. Each episode comes out every week. I'm waiting for all the episodes to be out before I start watching it. Can't be waiting week by week. I really hope Melanie survive in season 3, her character has come to grow on me.
I also luved the movie.. it was such a cool story, but I was all excited when I saw the tv show coming out, but after watching the first episode, it just wasn't as good to me, so I passed.
I've watched both the movie and the first 2 seasons of the show. The third season is on Netflix where I am but I haven't started it yet. I prefer the movie (I like that directors movies a lot) but the show is decent as well, especially season two.
Something somewhat interesting is that the original source material is actually a graphic novel but the movie deviated quite a bit from it and basically turned it into a whole new story. The show then copied the movie idea and changed it further.
I agree with what you said about the train and engine and all that. It's more scifi fantasy than realism for sure.
I watched the movie and I think the idea is really cool!
I like that it really depicts a lot more about real life than just the storyline... how that power is subjectively distributed to a few in the social strata and how it shows that a disruption the survival chain can cause a devastating collapse.
I would love to see the series!
I had this series on my list for a long time, didn't start it because after the move I was not sure if its gonna be good enough. To my surprise, watching the first season lately was awesome. Highly recommended.
I really like movie, however I couldn't watch more than 15minuts of first episode of series... Superficial world and story description and unreal charakter creation. The idea of a train with survivors might be powerful, even more in societies with hidden class-conflict dynamics, but I just could not stand poor quality.
Kind regards, I have always been struck by our fascination with stories of the end of the world, it is as if we want everything to end in one fell swoop except us.
There is a lot of psychoanalysis to be done to that human tendency. We know that there are many things to solve, but we are not doing them, and as a result of this neglect disaster will come. I think that is the basis of why we like so much to think about the end of the world. A virtual hug.
Oh thats interesting
I've been watching the show but I had no idea it was a movie. I think the show is pretty great so I'll go and watch the movie as well
i like the movie, it really interesting. I learnt a lot from the movie.
Nuclear power generated by small reactors like on submarines could keep it moving for a very long time as in decades. The requirement to move would only make sense if snow were used as a coolant for the reactor. I don't know how much water per unit of time does it really take to cool the reactor of a nuclear submarine.
In any case, this is a type of road movie.
This series is great, I'm watching it and although I don't remember if I saw it in its entirety I also identified with it, since I saw the movie with my mother.
Like you ,I am left with the doubt of how rays the tracks are not frozen deteriorated and buried under piles of ice or snow, but well we talk about science fiction, to some extent, because we do not know if over there someone has come up with something similar in reality.
I'm surprised you haven't found it on Netflix because I'm watching it there, but well, the important thing is that you're watching it, so we have topic of conversation, I had thought of making a publication, but you have anticipated, hahaha.
On the other hand as you point out this series reflects how inside everyone there is light and darkness and how we all have traumas some bigger some smaller, but no one is saved from it.
Regarding your question about the queue, I understood that they boarded these cars because they were open, as there were uploading things for the trip of various kinds, yesterday I saw the chapter of the third season for this week let's see what surprises it brings in the next episodes and if Melani reappears, but really this series has me glued to the screen and I recommend it to everyone.
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oh my god what a fabulous post
i like it
Love the movie which I very very interesting movie. A lot of to learn out of the movie. Thanks
@geekgirl
You have beautifully rendered this movie and successfully created an appetite in me for it.
The concept of a self sustaining train powered by its continual motion isn't entirely folklore/impossible...
Self sustaining systems already exist, and with the advances in AI technologies, we could have systems that would never breakdown or need maintenance...very possible...
This is a captivating piece I must say...didn't know when I got to the end.
I picked up and left this series last year with the intention to pick it up again and I am super glad I did. I found the first two episodes slow, but I blame myself for that there is a reason behind it you need to get to really know the story before you can start to understand. Being that I never watched the original movie till last week even more so.
I love Ruth she is probably my favourite out of all of the cast to watch her go from a real stone face to having a heart of gold. The thing i'm most intruiged about is Melanie, without wanting to give away too much, but I see a comeback for her, reason being, Jennifer Connelly is still in the credits on Netflix for season 3??
It was nice also to see Archie Panjabi make an appearance in the show I used to like watching her in The Good Wife. I'm kinda sore at Netflix for releasing weekly episodes now im up to date, but then again I would binge watch the whole thing and still want more.
In regards to the movie, perhaps its because I watched the tv series first, I did not enjoy the movie as much as others, I find the story line for the series much more enjoyable, the movie seemed rushed almost but I guess you have only so much time for storyline to play out.
Will the horn of Africa be warm who can say??
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I have not watched the movie yet, but the way you explain the crux of the story is very compelling. In the train of 1000 cars only 3000 people, means in a gigantic car only 3 people. Sounds quite fearsome too.
I think I have to go see this series now. You have influenced me😅. I personally prefer series to single movies. I feel the storyline is more developed and stretched out on series. Nice talking to you