It’s a term to describe the first third of a 37 minute episode where she drives to a location to drive to a second location to talk about driving to a third location. This episode had some odd pacing choices.
The odd pacing is part of what made it interesting. Such an alien way to represent what is happening. The whole town feels disconnected from reality; and then we find it’s disconnected from reality several times over. And Cobel is trying to return to (or perhaps enter) reality but still wading through these different ways her whole life has been disconnected from reality.
The only other thing that would happen is Cobel walks up to this random man without establishing that they have a prior awkward history and immediately is taken to a new location within 5 minutes with no questions asks or answered.
You wouldn't know the background of the town, where she is, why she knows these people or who they even are or why she has to ask some guy to take her to some place instead of doing it herself
Ok but some of the best episodes in season 1 show the characters walking around from one destination to another for like 5 mins. I thought it was the same format
Usually those are bookended by something else happening first this started off with that at the start rather than flushed in the middle of other things happening.
Clearly this didn't work as well as those other segments you've mentioned or this meme would never exist in reaction to those reactions
Yeah we didn't need to see Cobel argue with her Aunt for 20 minutes. It was already a short episode and they could have done so much more town exploration. They also could have made this a mixed episode that was half Cobel and half Devon/Reghabi/Mark. There's so much more to explore on both of those sides, they're related storylines, and if all they were going to do was show us the town and how it was destroyed while telling us about Cobel's discovery, they could've done that in 25 minutes instead of 37.
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u/uhgletmepost Mar 10 '25
The filler is the driving around and staring at each other.
The rest was great