The Biggest ‘1899’ Questions We Need Answered in Season 2

I’ve completed watching 1899 on Netflix, throughout to its irritating ending. I’ve questions. 

Warning: Spoilers for 1899 forward.

The present begins as a seemingly simple interval piece a couple of spooky steamship heading from London to New York in 1899. Every one of many passengers, we quickly be taught, is mendacity about their previous, working from a secret or passing themselves off as somebody they don’t seem to be. Usually all the above. That might need been sufficient of a narrative for some showrunners, however 1899 hangs a pointy proper flip into Lost and Westworld territory, and shortly viewers are attempting to untangle time journey. And dimensional pathways. And simulations. And transferred consciousness. This present would possibly as properly be Star Trek.

Friends ask me if they need to buckle in and watch 1899. My reply is sort of wishy-washy. Maybe? It’s good, however not as satisfying as I wished it to be. A variety of that has to do with the numerous unanswered questions the present flings at viewers, then simply sort of … leaves on the market. 

Creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar instructed Deadline they’d like 1899 to be a multi-season present, if scores are ok. So possibly a few of these questions can be answered in a 1899 season 2, however till then, they’re going to play in my thoughts just like the numbers from Lost, or the maze from Westworld, or the image from Game of Thrones, or … you get the image.

Is Elliot alive in the true world?

Elliot, the mysterious boy discovered on the equally mysterious Prometheus, turned out to be the son of Daniel and Maura. He’d died of an sickness and his sensible mom desperately creates the simulation the place she will be able to hold him alive. It actually appears that he’d be lifeless in a second season, however something can occur on this world, so possibly there can be resurrection? Or Maura can return in time and discover a remedy for no matter sickness Elliot had?

What is Ciaran’s deal?

Ciaran is Maura’s brother. At first we’re led to consider he went lacking on the Prometheus and that Maura is looking for him. But ultimately, it seems it is Ciaran who’s working the simulation, holding his sister and father captive. He leaves Maura a notice for when she lastly wakes up, however a second season must introduce this mysterious sibling so we will discover out why he is completed … properly, any of the issues he is completed. 

What is Project Prometheus?

Maura lastly wakes up in a brand new location, a spaceship that is crusing by way of area in 2099 as “Project Prometheus,” with 1,423 passengers and 550 crew. We know barely something in regards to the so-called “project. But it’s listed as a “survival mission,” so perhaps Earth has been destroyed or is about to be and these people, like the migrants aboard the Keberos, are seeking a new homeland.

Is this spaceship a new simulation?

So we end with Maura on the spaceship, and, because she used the new keys (her wedding ring and the colorful pyramid toy instead of the black one) we’re assuming she’s in reality now. But who knows? This could be another simulation, with the real reality still out there.

Is the black virus Virginia had curable?

Virginia Wilson touches a black metallic substance that’s growing and spreading throughout the Kerberos. It jumps to her body, turns her hand black, and appears to spread up her arm to her neck and the side of her face. She’s able to walk around with it but it doesn’t look like she can bend that hand. (Game of Thrones fans will see a resemblance to greyscale, that series’ deadly condition that makes flesh stone-like.) Henry, Maura’s father, and her husband, Daniel, refer to it as the “virus,” making it seem as if a computer virus is crawling through the simulation’s code. Did Daniel cause it with his desperate attempts to fix things? Wherever it came from, it’s got creepy physical effects, and it’ll be interesting to see if a version of it makes it to season 2.

Why was the simulation set in 1899?

It makes for a cool interval piece, with geishas and gents and cosplay. But if we assume Project Prometheus is the precise actuality, and 2099 the precise date, why would the entire simulation happen on a ship again 200 years earlier than that? As talked about above, it does create a pleasant parallel with the immigrants fleeing their homeland for a brand new world, simply as we presume the passengers on the spaceship are desperately in search of a protected place to land. 

We would possibly even have a solution for this one. Showrunner Jantje Friese says the present creators preferred 1899 as a result of it is on a threshold of a brand new century, stepping from old school days to a brand new future. “There was something fascinating about exactly that moment in time,” Friese instructed Netflix weblog Tudum. “What happened in that period is that modernism clashed with old beliefs. More scientific-oriented thinking started [influencing society] while you still had very religious beliefs [also prevalent], and those two things pulled on each other, old and new.”

Did the Kerberos passengers lose their reminiscences?

So the Kerberos passengers can die after which their reminiscences are reset to allow them to begin over in a brand new model of the simulation. But as the primary season ended, passengers weren’t lifeless. Some (all?) of them are on Project Prometheus. Will they one way or the other keep in mind their steamship lives? Will we meet all of them once more as individuals of 2099 if the present will get a second season?

What’s with 1011, inverted triangles, pyramid toys?

There have been numerous unexplained symbols within the present. Maura’s ship cabin and the creepy injection room have been each numbered 1011, and that quantity reappeared typically, as did the inverted triangle image and a pyramid toy.  Show creators Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar addressed these within the Netflix Tudum weblog, too. Turns out they cherished the thriller of a pyramid or a tetrahedron, and say that form has a task in simulations and digital realities. 

“The reoccurring triangle symbol itself represents the element earth,” Friese mentioned, in what looks as if an apparent nod to the ending and the passengers fleeing Earth. The room quantity 1011 was meant to trace at binary code, which could give a clue the ship was a pc simulation. But it will be fascinating to see if these identical numbers and symbols reappear within the spaceship, or if new ones sprout.

What are the shiny inexperienced bugs?

Mechanical inexperienced bugs are used within the present to crawl underneath and unlock doorways, generally create doorways, and in a single case, lead Maura and Elliot to the ship’s captain, Eyk. We know that in life, Elliot had a inexperienced beetle he referred to as Alfred and his mom, Maura, instructed him to not hold it trapped. Seems like Maura created the bug, maybe so Elliot would have his pet all the time, however some extra particulars in regards to the bugs could be welcome. There’s actually symbolism there, because the very bug Elliot wished to maintain captive is opening doorways and releasing individuals.

Did we actually want that sexual assault storyline?

Danish character Tove could be very pregnant, and we be taught that that is the results of a rape that befell in entrance of her dad and mom and brother. It’s possibly essentially the most horrific scene within the present, and there appears to be no motive for this occurring to her besides that every one the passengers have horrible pasts filled with secrets and techniques. As the present ends, she hasn’t given start. Will she even be pregnant if she’s a part of the brand new present? Will the infant ever be born? What in regards to the different passengers’ pasts — will all of them be reset? Some of them could possibly be a whole present on their very own, together with Ling Yi disguising herself as a geisha after by chance killing her buddy, and the mysterious duo of Ángel and Ramiro.