He tells a story of his own Helm is riveted.
She explains the concept of Firefall, her latest party idea, but she’s stumped when he pushes her for what the story behind it really is. They attend the party together, and just as John spots Lenina, Helm finds him and takes him upstairs. He’s empowering New London’s underclass by giving them a voice and agency, a concept so alien to Bernard that he never even considered it before. Then again, with John’s influence, it seems like everybody can’t wait to bypass the “natural” order of things. If anyone seems liable to jump onto the rebellion train, I’m voting Helm. Just as John offers out a lippy Beta Minus, Helm arrives and demands that they have sex, but Bernard, hilariously, explains how it’s something of an ordeal for Savages - quite right! But he promises he’ll attend her party later. Every time he questions the way of things there’s another click and rattle. When he goes to see her in Brave New World episode 5, he leaves John with a group of “banished” citizens who reflexively pop soma when they feel uncomfortable - which is basically all the time in John’s presence. Soma seems to keep everyone on an even keel in New London, but can you have too much? Helm seems particularly strung-out on the stuff to an extent that even Bernard seems uncomfortable with, despite the fact he’s the one enabling her. Lenina wins and gives Frannie a parting burn that has her furiously popping more soma. They play a game that looks like a sci-fi cross between tennis and squash, and the rift between them continues to grow into a rivalry. Lenina recognizes that Frannie feels the injustice of Lenina being allowed to the Savage Lands, and that she knows John, but when she tries to convince her not to take the soma, to let that feeling grow, Frannie doesn’t want to engage with it. Lenina wants to fence off part of that illusion for herself, which Frannie thinks is - all together now - private and solipsistic. It’s that obvious, and Bernard’s ridiculous insistence that the Epsilons enjoy their work falls on deaf ears. He refuses the optic, and when Bernard tries to explain how useful it is to determine peoples’ levels, he immediately identifies the levels of all the current onlookers with his naked eye. Part of the problem with John’s initiation in “Firefall” is the fact that he can see what’s going on for himself. Bernard includes the late Director being John’s father on the list of his excuses, which Mustafa already knew about, but she thinks it’s best that John doesn’t know - of course, he already does. Mustafa is unhappy with his slow progress, and not-so-subtly suggests that Indra might provide a correction if matters aren’t dealt with.
He’s comprised of nothing but those and excuses for John’s refusal to integrate with the social body. In contrast, Bernard can’t pop enough pills. But as Lenina leaves, she tosses her pill away, evidently detached enough from the rituals of New London to know what taking it does.
Lenina thought train free#
Lenina still wants to break free of this stratified chain, but Henry isn’t receptive to her ideas of rebellion. Mustafa Mond, veins protruding from her shoulder and chest, emerges from a pool of water - two extreme ends of the same closed-off ecosystem.
Lenina thought train full#
The Jacks wake up at the beginning of New World Order episode 5, in glass cubes, pumped full of drugs, tracing their identical reflections on the glass of their prisons so that their eyes resemble the big, sad ones of a clown. Check out our spoiler-free season review.Ĭheck out all our recaps in the episode archive.
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