![]() No longer playing Claudius, Clark tells him he loved his father, and Tyler walks off the stage.įor a show that's been so interested in the way works of art can help people overcome real-world problems, it seems fitting that it's a play written hundreds of years ago that helps Tyler reconnect with his mother. Tyler pulls out a knife unscripted and considers stabbing Clark in the middle of the play, but is unable to go through with it. In the play, Claudius is Hamlet’s uncle, who murders Hamlet's father and marries Gertrude.īy taking on this role in the play, Clark acknowledges Tyler's feelings of being wronged by him, and indirectly asks for his forgiveness. Meanwhile, Clark is moved by the revelation that Kirsten is the same girl he met at Arthur's play rehearsal 20 years ago, and agrees to play Claudius. Kirsten forces Tyler and Elizabeth to address their feelings towards each other through these characters whose emotions mirror their own. In the play, Hamlet is a character who's grieving his father's death and suspects his mother of betraying him, and Gertrude is a grieving mother who tries in vain to stop her son from being consumed by grief and rage. Observing this dynamic, Kirsten gets the idea to change the casting for their play of Hamlet, pushing Elizabeth to play Gertrude and Tyler to play Hamlet. Although Elizabeth still loves her son, Tyler is still so overrun by pain and resentment that he refuses to even speak to her. ![]() Most of the present-day parts of the episode focus on the reconnection of Tyler, Elizabeth and Clark. It's a devastating conversation between two people who know they're dying, one which reveals that Miranda is the reason Clark, Elizabeth and Tyler were able to survive those first few days of the pandemic. Knowing her time is nearly up, Miranda spends her last few hours alive calling up the pilot of a contaminated plane that's parked on the runway of Severn City Airport, begging the pilot not to let any passengers out. Although the series' earlier Miranda-centric episode ended on an ambiguous note, with seemingly-still-healthy Miranda hiding herself in her hotel room, she's already coughing in her first scene here. ![]() 'Unbroken Circle' features the resolution to Miranda Carroll's storyline, the woman who wrote the graphic novel that drives so much of this show. Considering that the Traveling Symphony's conductor, Sarah, is currently in a serious life-threatening condition, fans hoped Jeevan would be called over to Severn City Airport, so he and Kirsten could finally find closure. The penultimate episode ends by jumping to the present day, showing how Jeevan has become an actual doctor who regularly visits towns to provide his aid and expertise. Jeevan somewhat adopted the young Kirsten at a time where everyone else in her life was dead, and she helped Jeevan become the leader he always wanted to be. No matter what happens in Kirsten's present, those first few months of the apocalypse with Jeevan always seem to be on her mind. ![]() Despite these two characters only sharing a single scene in the novel, the show has made their relationship the emotional throughline of the series. Perhaps the biggest question was whether or not Kirsten would get to see Jeevan again. Would Miranda's fate be explained? What's the next step in Tyler's plan? What repercussions would Tyler face for blowing up the Museum of Civilization, let alone for his years of kidnapping kids and turning them into child soldiers? Even those who read the novel didn't know what to expect from this finale. ![]() Like The Leftovers before it, Station Eleven is a show that's not afraid to make changes from its source material. ![]()
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