Station Eleven
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Only Dr. Eleven has kept her company through all the times her world has ended.
Clark talks to Miranda on the day she dies.
No one will attend anyones funeral.
There will be no funerals, no ritualized goodbyes, no memorials, no reckonings.
Everyone who survives the plague will be in mourning, and all that mourning will be private.
She went to meet Arthur with copies in hand.
When Clark hears about that in the days following his old friends death, he smiles.
Coincidence is a kind of entropy.
In Year 20, the Traveling Symphony is finally admitted to the airport.
Alex asks of the wondrous greenhouse and monstrous PA system.
The answer is yes and no, but its the question thats revealing.
Post-pans were born stranded in a foreign language.
Elizabeth promises they can leave after the play, but their tension runs deeper.
Kirsten never had the opportunity to say goodbye to anyone she loved.
Tyler, of course,isthe devastating mirror, forcing Elizabeth to confront the failed mother in her reflection.
This isnt some sleepy backwater.
This is the Severn City Airport; this is the West End.
This is post-pan Broadway, baby.
But he relents when she shows him her beat-up copy ofStation Eleven.
Arthur gave Kirsten Mirandas book, which Miranda finished because Clark spoke well of her.
Paths dont just cross; they change each other.
He remembers meeting Kirsten backstage when she played young Goneril.
If you cant beat em, join em, or whatever.
The play is every inch as cathartic as Clark feared.
Because even in a post-apocalyptic world, stories are solace.
After the show, Kirsten spots Hailey, who tells her Station Eleven will be landing any minute.
Time and again, the book has been her passport into a strangers trust.
Shes not the lost, young starlet anymore.
At the wrap party that becomes Sarahs memorial, Wendy sings Midnight Train to Georgia, Sarahs favorite song.
But the themes love and aspiration and homecoming are beginning to make sense again.
Tyler and Elizabeth take their second chance to reconcile.
This time, when he leaves, shell go with him.
Alex will, too.
She dreams of life beyond the Wheel.
Later, Miles tells Jeevan aboutHamletas Kirsten walks by at an excruciating, scream-at-your-television distance.
Quiet, stirring, and beautifully lit.
Bought a one-way ticket back to the life that he once knew.
The past isnt so squarely in the past.
It isnt simply Before and after.
Looking out at the hordes in their makeshift colander space helmets, he says only: What the fuck?
She understands because shes been through it with Alex.
Theyll have more time to talk about it next year, when the troupe plays at the airport.
Severn City is on the Wheel now.
Their road forks like it has before, but everything inStation Elevencomes back around.
You get to miss people until you see them next.
There are no forks, no ends.
Time is a stormy circle going round and round and round.
