Episode 4 - It’s Been a While!
Mark answers the call to save an alien species, but the mission has unexpected personal consequences.
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I think that’s pretty clear with how asking Mark to read his books would probably be the last thing on his mind at that moment, unless they contained something very important.
And then it’s contrasted with Debbie throwing the whole set of books out at that very moment. I imagine Mark will have a hell of a time tracking those down to actually read them by the time he gets back to earth. Since it already took him 6 days to get there (with a working Thraxans ship that he might not have anymore), the books will be long gone.
I got the impression that Nolan actually published those books, and Cecil used that as a way to give them money, aka an under the table way to pay him for his hero work.
If that’s the case, then there should be no trouble finding these books to read. Unless whatever Mark needs to find out is in solely Nolans copies of the books.
I honestly always assumed that someone else was a ghost writer for those books as a cover for Nolan. After all, I assumed he didn’t care / have time to write when he was out being a superhero.
I guess it’s possible that he actually wrote them, but I assumed that “Read my books” was a way for Mark to go to those specific books and find whatever is inside, written in the margins, etc.
I say that because the show puts a lot of emphasis on Debbie putting the books away and deliberately shows them being placed on the sidewalk to be thrown away. I get the feeling those specific books will be important.
Hmm, could be. But if that were the case I don’t think they’d have made sure to show us they were retro sci fi books. That makes me think its gonna be something in the writing itself, whether training the main character goes through, or a race that’s clearly an expy for the Vitrumites, whatever.
I’m confused about the books, I could have sworn they said he wrote travel books in season 1
Cecil said his travel guides “always sold well” when he talked to Debbie about the book, so it could be Nolan’s pulp sci fi was just relatively unpopular compared to those.