Stripped of the trappings of society, what is man if not a beast? Well, Station Eleven is obviously a little more sophisticated than that.

In selecting a moment of climax, many post-apocalyptic stories would resort to some sort of battle or violent event. Now the Severn City airport can serve as the top of the counter for countless innocent lives.Īnd so the occupants of the plane die without setting foot back on the Earth’s soil, saving an entire civilization in the show’s most heroic act. Miranda was only spared because she was on top of a counter drawing. Hurricane Hugo flooded her home in the Virgin Islands and then an unsecured livewire electrified them all in front of her. She tells Hugo about how her family died. With her last breaths (and the help of her colleague Jim Felps), Miranda gets a hold of Captain Hugo Bennett, the pilot of the plane. The only reason they didn’t was thanks to Miranda’s intervention. If the Gitchegumee flight from Chicago had deplaned as planned, the citizens of the Severn City airport would have been infected with the deadly flu. Another part of that was Miranda Carroll, as it turns out. The airport provided plenty of food, shelter, and the potential for electricity, and was also situated on an island south of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Here is how it all goes down and why both “Unbroken Circle” and Station Eleven are destined to stand the test of time like Hamlet himself.Ĭlark (David Wilmot), Elizabeth (Caitlin FitzGerald), Tyler (Daniel Zovatto), and the rest of the Severn City airport occupants really were set up perfectly to survive the end of the world. “Unbroken Circle” is about coming home in one way or another, just as Miranda’s astronaut Dr. More often than not, A and B are the same, it’s just the space between them that varies. Everyone starts somewhere and then ends up somewhere. The path that things take from A to B aptly describes logistics, but it also describes just about everything else. “It’s the path that things take from A to B.” “What kind of job do you have?” Kirsten asks Miranda. In fact, its name is literally “Unbroken Circle.” The very first lines of the episode feature a flashback conversation between “Station Eleven” graphic novel writer Miranda Carroll (Danielle Deadwyler) and a young Kirsten. This pitch perfect Station Eleven finale understands the natures of stories and circles as well as just about anything else ever has. In the works of Stephen King, stories are “Ka”, a metaphorical wheel of fate whose only purpose is to turn just like the circular path the Traveling Symphony takes every year. Narrative deep thinkers like Dan Harmon will tell you that a proper story is literally a circle to begin with.

That’s because good stories never really end. In-between gigs, Kirsten reads the graphic novel “Station Eleven” over and over again, memorizing each word in her heart like they’re from the bard itself.Įven when virtually the entirety of the human population is no longer around to hear them, the stories continue. Lead character Kirsten Raymonde (Mackenzie Davis) joins the Traveling Symphony, a caravan of performers that journeys the Great Lakes region in a wheel pattern, bringing the same old Shakespeare stories to the same old audiences year after year. Presented with the ultimate end of the Earth’s story, the survivors just turn to other stories once again. Public transportation takes you within five minutes to the train station 'Messe West-Süd/Gruga' which is only a two-minute walk away from the entrance of the exhibition site ('Eingang Messe West').And yet…those left carry on anyway, as human beings always seem to do. Travel in comfort and arrive relaxed at your destination and benefit with an event ticket from a special price.Įvent ticket one way, for specific connection only (subject to availability):Įvent ticket one way, for use on all connections (always available): In cooperation with MESSE ESSEN, the German railway Deutsche Bahn AG provides a special offer for selected events. From there, you can reach MESSE ESSEN in only five minutes with the Underground line 11. The ideally connected Essen Central Railway Station is a hub for over 120 daily connections in all directions.

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