#Kepler knew Minkowski had a longer history with him
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Its Sad Theory Time
I’m thinking about Captain Lovelace. Thinking about all the crew members she lost. Thinking about how much she blames herself for their death. Thinking about how severe the survivor’s guilt most be.
And now I’m thinking about her ‘death’ during the mutiny. I’m thinking about how, when Kepler was deciding which one of them to kill, she spoke up right before the end of his ‘Eeny, meeny miny, moe’ bit was over. That timing…I believe it’s significant. Let me explain
Because it’s a podcast, we can never really know who he was going to pick. But Lovelace and Eiffel were there. They would know. And I would bet you, Kepler was going to pick Eiffel. Lovelace realized it, at the end there.
So she speaks up. She tells Kepler to fuck off. She spits in his face and says she pities him and, in Doug’s words, she does everything to poke the bear. And it works. Kepler shoots her.
Now, this could be interpreted several other ways. Maybe Kepler was going to pick Lovelace and she realized that, so instead of just letting it happen, she brought it on herself. She took her last stand, robbing him of the satisfaction he would’ve got from killing her. And I think that’s very plausible.
But what if…
Im thinking about Captain Lovelace, still carrying that survivors guilt. I’m thinking about Captain Lovelace realizing that she’s about to lose another one of her crew members. I’m thinking about her deciding that she will not, cannot, let another one of her friends die, how she cannot be the sole survivor again.
So she pokes the bear. She does everything she can to divert Kepler’s attention away from Eiffel and onto her. She metaphorically throws herself in front of the bullet meant for him. That was a meditated, conscious decision.
Right before she dies, Lovelace tells Eiffel that she had to do this. She had to save him, because she failed to save so many others. Maybe Captain Lovelace really just couldn’t hold her tongue. But I think it’s a lot more plausible that the Captain knew exactly what she was doing.
#tw: gun violence#tw: survivor's guilt#do y’all get what I’m saying??#Like it must’ve been Eiffel#Kepler knew Minkowski had a longer history with him#Eiffel would be the obvious choice to threaten#And the Captain isn’t prone to acting irrationally on her emotions#especially not in a high tense situation like this#her lashing out was a decision#A calculation#I hope this isn’t one of those theories that everyone already knows and accepts like ‘no duh’#But I’ve been thinking about it ever since I heard that episode and I needed to put this out there#wolf 359#wolf 359 spoilers#w359#captain lovelace#isabel lovelace#doug eiffel#warren kepler#colonel Kepler#Episode 45: Desperate Measures#podcast
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