#henry singleton

[illustratus]

War by Henry Singleton

[prometheus-ghost]

So I think this is the only "Wake up" moment in 1899 where the "wakee's" pupils stay round the whole time (as opposed to going from triangles to normal or vice versa), right? This is from episode 5, about 33 minutes in (after Henry injects her with the black syringe and she wakes up back in her cabin).

I assume this is because Maura didn't experience a memory in that moment, but rather an actual thing that happened to her in real time during the sim. But she still needed the "Wake up" prompt, which is interesting...

I don't know--further thoughts, 1899 hive mind??

[oldsardens]

Henry Singleton - Minerva

[the-girl-in-the-high-castle]

Inspired by some of the @prometheus-ghost earlier posts, one thought won't leave me alone, and I drilled it into my own mind.

Why does Henry seem to not acknowledge Eyk's existence at all?

I mean, I could be wrong, and I could have missed it over 67 times I've actually seen all the episodes, but I'm pretty sure I'm not.

Henry talks about everyone in general and to some of the characters he faces, but it's a completely different thing for him to not acknowledge, I don't know, Ling Yi for example, or any other character that doesn't directly have to do with him. But not once showing of being aware of Eyk's existence is very, very strange to me.

He's worried about the sim and its run, about the key, the shutdown, Maura waking up, everything. But all these things actually depend on one person, and that person is none other than Eyk. Because he's the strongest link in the sim. It's his decisions everything depends on, story wise and sim wise. Especially when we see Eyk's link to Maura and how much she's bound to him in every way possible, even though she doesn't know why.

I would really like someone else's insight. Maybe someone's noticed something I haven't. But it simply won't leave me alone, because it seems pretty important, and I wanna know the reason.

[someillplanetreigns]

Not sure who here is still having 1899 thoughts but I have a theory I'm chewing over

That triangle symbol that's everywhere... Dark taught us that Bo and Jantje like a good symbol with structural significance to the show. So I've been wondering what the triange could indicate, and here's my current proposal

(Spoilers for the series below!)

Three keys

You know how in Stranger Things s3 (stay with me) when Joyce and Hopper try and shut down the gate and they need to both turn keys in order to do so, because the system is designed so one person alone can't switch it off? What if the simulation is like that? Maura's key opened one section, but like a puzzle box it's only opened up a new puzzle to open?

I'm playing with the idea that there are two more keys the characters need to find and use to actually break free of the simulation. I just love the idea that to spite Henry's jibe that they keep failing because their emotions get in the way, that actually escape can only be possible with the characters working together.

[artschoolglasses]

Ariel on a Bat's Back, Henry Singleton, 1819

[anxiouspotatorants]

I did a rewatch, here are a bunch of smaller things I feel like can be important in the future (cancellation? what cancellation?):

Ada’s ghost ship story. It’s about how the sea gets so angry when the passengers and crew of a ship kill a whale that it sends a storm their way and turns it into an actual ghost ship. Could be an allegory for what the passengers do to Elliot and the simulation subsequently killing them afterwards, or it could be part of an even larger narrative.

Franz has been part of Eyk’s crew for as long as Maura and Daniel have been married.

Several important characters have scarring and wounds on their faces or arms, and some of Franz’ are fresher even before we see him physically fight.

Anker literally means anchor. It’s probably just a characterisation detail for Anker but still an interesting name choice.

«Die Gedanken sin frei» is a song celebrating freedom of thought.

When Maura wakes up the first time it’s Henry’s voice telling her to do so but afterwards and for everyone else it’s Maura’s voice.

When Ramiro and Angel hook up in 1.02 the scene ends with a shot of a painting of a wolf and a sheep.

While the earth symbol is everywhere, only Ling Yi, Virginia Wilson and Clémence seem to have it on their clothes or accessories. It might be a stretch, but I also think the embroidered flower on Clémence’s collar looks like a bug.

Tove describes Iben’s religious conviction and the fact that she hears voices as creating her own world that the people around her have decided to follow. This could be a parallel to Maura creating the simulation and pulling everyone into it.

In 1.05 Maura tells Eyk that she remembers being a doctor and that her father must have changed her memory to make her a patient. This is probably her doing because of the Elliot reveal, but she also says she thinks she managed to remember the purpose of what was happening and was made to forget. Is this her projecting her deeds onto her father again, or did she actually manage to remember one time and get forced back into forgetting by someone else?

After exiting her first flashback into the shooting scene, Tove sees that she stands in front of room 2102. There’s a big visual focus on room numbers in general too.

Speaking of numbers, Maura’s room in the ship and the room in the mental hospital are both numbered 1011.

Virginia Wilson is confirmed to speak and understand English, French and Cantonese so far.

There are multiple closeups of Eyk’s family photo.

All of the photos on Daniel and Maura’s nightstand seem to be from the same day. One of the photos shows Elliot holding the bug, indicating that this day is the same as Elliot’s flashback. Also Maura and Elliot’s clothing in the photos seem similar to if not identical to their simulation outfits.

When Maura and Daniel kiss we see flashes of them together, the mental hospital, the wooden cross from the tomb, a brain and Maura walking down a corridor with a hammer.

Daniel says that if Maura doesn’t wake up, there will be nothing left to wake up for.

Elliot and Daniel’s simulation flashbacks both end with either of them holding Maura’s frock in the middle of the same faulty simulation that Henry is in.

Henry says Maura has fooled «all of us».

Ángel’s song (a version of La Tarara) mentions a finger that can’t be healed and a white dress. The finger could be Virginia and the white dress could be Maura in her hospital gown. The white dress verse claims La Tarara only wears it on Maundy Thursday, and the finger verse says no surgeon can cure it.

[huntseric]

"One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, is multiply. Therein, let the strongest live, and the weakest die. Eventually, a species can become complacent. At that point, a de-evolution can occur. A spiral downwards, signaling an end for that lifeform."

Character list (in order of appearance):

- Eyk Larsen

- Maura Franklin

- Daniel Solace

- Maura Franklin

- Henry Singleton

- Elliot (The Boy)

- Ling Yi

- Lucien

- Jérôme

- Sebastian

- Tove

- Iben

- Ramiro

- Eyk Larsen

- Daniel Solace

- Maura Franklin

After a whole month, I can finally share this with everyone. I apologize if your favorite character is not here, I tried to include as many as possible but I wanted the lyrics to match the characters, so this is the result! I started working on this way before the cancellation was announced, so that was sad. I wanted to continue anyway, so I hope you guys will like it! I've worked so hard on this and I'm overall happy with it :)

[rabbitcruiser]

A large fire nearly burned St. Louis to the ground on May 16, 1849.

[quo-usque-tandem]

Ariel on a Bat's Back by Henry Singleton

[picspammer]

🜃 What is lost will be found 🜃

[prometheus-ghost]

I've long had a somewhat convoluted theory that Elliot and Sebastian are the same person (the latter being in disguise within the sim), but this visual parallel with Dark just clicked and I...

Dammit, what if Sebastian, Elliot, AND Henry are all the same?? Is this already a theory I'm late to the party on?

[aeonfvx]

Henry + the black pyramid / 1899 S1E8

[sexy-zeitreise-detektiv]

ROUND 1: FUCK THAT OLD MAN DIVISION

[avaelangel]

So. I watched 1899 again. I have thoughts. Spoilers!

I think, Daniel is a stowaway. We see him wear the same suit everybody has in the end. But he also says ''I'm not going to leave you again''. Did he leave in the very beginning, seeing his wife getting absolutely consumed by her desire to avoid the pain? There is also an open capsule on the spaceship. I thought it was Maura's, but hers is between Eyk and Krester, and the second one is beside Jerome. I might be wrong, but could Ciaran move Daniel out of spite? Out of the way? We don't know how death actually works there, but I'm assuming that the turning off works only in one cycle of the simulation. But what about the outer body? I don't want to think about Daniel ending up as a brain in a jar or a core of a massive computer. Because the spaceship is just not real. He does say ''I'll always be there''. It could have been an oath to his maddened wife or a consolation oath of a person who might not be alive for long.

Every memory ends with Maura's ''Wake up'' and a pyramid-pupil in a person's eye. The show ends with a zoom into Maura's eye with a pyramid-pupil. The spaceship might be closer to Ciaran, but still not enough. It might be an actual bridge between the simulations of a greater scale. Maura's monologue (poem?) in the very first scene actually shows us the entire scope of that particular branch of the simulation. How long ago Ciaran took over? Two years or four months?

These are two dates we here about the most. Two years ago Eyk's family died, two years ago Maura miscarried. Four months ago Ciaran reached out and four months ago Prometheus vanished. So, did Maura's project start two years ago? Did Ciaran hijack it when Elliot died, four months ago? Henry does say to Elliot that ''his body remembers''. Could the project start before Elliot's supposed diagnosis?

Maura and Daniel created ''home away from home'', so Elliot's playroom, of course, wasn't a grave from the start. They lived in that landscape that Maura must have took from her memories. But we do see a homely inside of a grim pyramid, with no toys or a trace of Elliot beside the pictures. Was the playroom a basement of the pyramid that is seemingly in a different place?

I feel so sorry for Elliot. I am conflicted on how much of the real him there is actually left. Like Maura, he has the same attire exept for the Mental Hospital (I'll do a post on clothes). In his memory he says things and behaves in a way that a child, who wasn't exposed to the weird and dark false-reality of things, would. But he also says things that Maura would probably want him to say and think. Elliot also seems older in the Mental Hospital scene. Yeah, kids grow fast, but was this scene filmed later on purpose? Or was it just the magic of cinema, not the timing?

That mark on his neck. Could mark a simulated person? Could mark him as core of the whole thing? You know, sometimes in games there are simple cubes that hold a part or a whole location. Those cubes are out of sight, under the whole thing. Did Elliot hold the entire simulation above him? Is it why he can't die, be turned off and was important in Henry's part of getting out? Of course, he held the pyramid, but maybe that's why he did? Because he takes part in loading the simulation and in the turning it off. Maura wanted him close in the whole process.

Henry does have some control, I think. Would Maura put him at the imaginary high step of an imaginary food chain, only to feed her ilusion of being his victim? I doubt it. He probably has some control, enough control to torture people, but not enough to get out or do more. He has orderlies. They kick in whn he needs them. His own thumb-dudes like in Spy Kids. The ship is his experiment inside someone else's. Probably, Ciaran's. Henry is aware of his older son's doing, probably. I don't really thing they are aligned, though. Maybe, Ciaran used him to take over. They teamed up to take Maura's discovery away and in the midst of it Henry got betrayed.

Daniel says ''all will be lost'' if Maura doesn't stop Ciaran. Is he the only voice of reason or the tool to steer her in the right direction? I absolutely believe in Daniel, by the way. I think Maura remembers his touch, she instantly cares for Elliot. He is the only link to the 21st century, I think, we have. Dated and era-not appropriate vibes are there for the same reason too, probably. Also, Maura swears only in the end, when Henry has got her. I am SURE ''fuck'' & ''fucking'' existed in the 18th century, but the way Maura and Daniel use it seems so much more modern.

Yes, this is The Solace House. Why Solace though? Solace in Denial seems to be too easy. Maybe, it always was his name. Like Maura is the Star Of The Sea, Daniel was meant to mellow out her comet-like genius, to keep her away from the storms. From falling. But he loved her too much to overpower her high-reaching desire to alter the grimness of their actual reality. What also proves their connection to me, that his ''I love you. Never forger'' has a responce from Maura. ''Never ever''. She says it in the moments that would mean most, maybe, thinking that saying it to much might devalue the answer. To overthink this even more, she doesn't say I love you back. But they also might have switched places in that exchange, so there is no need at times. The important thing is that the one knows that he\she is loved. And will never ever forget.

Maura says that as kids her and Ciaran didn't get along much. But she still looks for him. Is there a trauma link? They seemingly expierenced the same treatment from their father, maybe Maura had it tougher because of Henry's preference. She still wanted to know what happened to him. Could the real reason for her search be coded under a desperate attempt to find her sibling? Whoever coded it, just tweaked a few things, making it out to be a selfless journey to defeat her monstrous father.

Also...isn't Maura a bit too much of the protagonist? British lady with knowledge that (at that time) is expected of men. She isn't taken seriously by most of people, but she is more helpful and more caring than anyone, really. She is smart, she is stubborn and has a dark secret. I feel like I have met her before. Was it a script for 18th century expierence created for Elliot? A family of travelers looking for adventures.

I've been going for long and haven't even touched on anybody else. I will. The last two things I want to talk about here: Albert and relationships inside Maura's family.

Albert is a bug, also the bug in the program. Daniel and Elliot clearly mastered bugs to their advantage, but I also thing the first appearance of Albert might have been a sign of the last calm moments, before the experiment with the ship started. The first loop, if you will.

At their core, Henry and Daniel are similar. They both would do or did everything to help their wives, forgeting their children in the end. But Henry's children were alive. Daniel's child was dying, while his wife tried not to let him die completely. Preventing him from moving on. Daniel does love Elliot, but in the storm of Maura's grief, his own was lost and could loose Maura also.

Could Ciaran hate Daniel? Did Ciaran try to use Maura's intelligence to his benefit and Daniel intervened? If Daniel was meant to be in the second empty capsule, does he include his life in ''All will be lost''? At the simplest twist, his time might be running out faster than everybody else's.

I will continue. I have more notes. Thank you for reading, if you did.

[ansatsu-sha]

Henry / 1899 S1E7