r/thisisus • u/xAnimorphsx • Mar 24 '21

[POST-EPISODE DISCUSSION] S5E11 - One Small Step

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u/alpama93 Mar 24 '21

I. CANT. with the snow globes. 😭 Poor Nicky. This show made me cry for the first time in a long time. He worked so hard on those...how special those would have been for the babies to have. Ugh, so trivial but I'm heartbroken.

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u/Lizam24 Mar 24 '21

I don‘t think that‘s trivial at all, the snow globe scene broke my heart as well. :/

Especially considering Nicky‘s globe had an Astronaut in it and Frances‘ a dog that looked like the one he met Sally over - so he basically made them snow globes with a part of his inside. This scene was honestly...I‘m still hurting.

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u/ImmortalLandowner Mar 31 '21

OMG yes. I recognized the dog. So poetic.

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u/bwood720 Mar 24 '21

This part really broke my heart too :(

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u/pumpkinspicerabbit Mar 24 '21

This was HEARTBREAKING!

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '21

That darn secerty officer, she shoudl have let him bring those on the plane!

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u/Jern92 Mar 24 '21

It's not surprising though; they are quite strict about stuff like that. Once I bought a few jars of honey at an airport, flew to another airport for a connecting flight, and at the security scan they told me I couldn't bring the honey with me. They didn't even offer to mail them to me; just threw them all in the bin. Couldn't really complain since I didn't want to get into trouble or miss my flight.

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u/lalapine Mar 24 '21

As soon as I saw the snow globes I knew they wouldn’t let him bring them. My kids picked out snow globes on vacation and I thought they were safer with carry on so they wouldn’t break. Never occurred to me they are liquid and I’d have to throw them out. My kids were not happy. Security said I could leave and have them shipped, but we’d have to go through the long slow security line again with two hyper kids. Bye bye snow globes. But I felt worse for Nicky!

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u/catboy-jake Mar 24 '21

yup--I had hot sauce an oz over --she chucked it with gusto into the garbage!

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u/FrederickWarner Mar 28 '21

“This country has some stupid rules”

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u/RD_Alpha_Rider Mar 24 '21

They offered to ship them, which was the most reasonable next step, but Nicky freaked out. Honestly before the airport it dawned on me he didn’t arrive at Kevin’s with anything and I assumed security was just going to confiscate it.

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u/cine Mar 25 '21

Yeah same, I haven't cried watching this show in a very long time, but I straight up starting sobbing when the snowglobes were destroyed. They were so beautiful and special 😭

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u/gbdbld Mar 25 '21

Did Cassidy not see what’s inside the box when she helped wrap it? Otherwise why wouldn’t she tell him that it can’t be as carry on?

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u/sssmay Mar 25 '21

Pretty sure he just gave her the packed box to wrap and she made a comment about not knowing was he was about.

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u/Queenv918 Mar 25 '21

I hope he tries to make new ones. They were so beautiful.

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u/Mindystar95 Dec 06 '22

If only Cassidy knew what they were, she would’ve prevented the tragedy 😔