#From Minkowski's perspective she tries to send him back to Earth
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It's so emotionally powerful to me that we don't hear any interactions between Minkowski and Eiffel in the finale between the scene when she tries to send him back on the Sol and the scene where she witnesses him losing his memories. That's more than an hour in the middle of the finale with no direct interaction between these two central characters whose dynamic is a core element of the show. For me, this makes both of those dramatic scenes even more moving, because they feel juxtaposed in a way they might not otherwise be if there was a Minkowski & Eiffel interaction inbetween them.
As the Sol prepares to launch, Minkowski tells Eiffel goodbye and she knows it could be the last time she speaks to him. She thinks she might never see him again, but at least he'll be safe. She thinks he might never forgive her for that choice, but at least he will have made it through this.
But his stubborn desperation to fight alongside the rest of the crew defies all her plans to protect him. And the next time she speaks to him - after she's been shot in the stomach during her attempts to reach him, after she's continued to look for him even as she's bleeding out - he is injured in a way she would never have expected. When she first sees him hooked up to Pryce's machine, maybe she thinks for a moment that he's unharmed, that they might all make it through this the way she hoped. Then she learns that his memories are already slipping away from him.
There's her desperate attempt to protect him at all costs, and then there's a life-altering harm that she couldn't protect him from, which she witnesses. Between these two moments, there aren't any scenes with both characters in together to bridge that gap. There's Eiffel yelling "Goddammit, Renée, DON'T DO THIS!", and then there's him telling her "It was an honor to serve under you, Sir." There's him pleading with her and then there's him forgiving her. There's Minkowski saying "Go home, Eiffel. Hug your daughter.[...] Goodbye, Doug.", and there's the desperate heartbroken way she says Eiffel's name after the memory wipe has gone through. There's two very different kinds of goodbyes.
And then, afterwards, there's two very different kinds of introductions.
#wolf 359#w359#doug eiffel#renée minkowski#renee minkowski#I know there is the scene where Eiffel imagines Minkowski talking to him#as he's trying to turn the Sol around#but for the purposes of the point I'm making here that doesn't count#because while that scene is significant in terms of their relationship#it isn't actually an interaction between Eiffel and the real Minkowski#From Minkowski's perspective she tries to send him back to Earth#and then she doesn't see or talk to him again until she watches him lose his memories#And god... That's so raw and intense as a sequence of interactions#I suppose you could argue that they interact 'off-screen' in the gap#but it doesn't seem likely#they don't seem to be using comms#and evidence suggests that they don't physically encounter each other#I think Hera has updated Minkowski on Eiffel's whereabouts/wellbeing but that's it#I care so much about these characters that I can write paragraphs about them *not* interacting with each other lol#wolf 359 spoilers#w359 spoilers#the empty man posteth
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