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Originally Posted by Fuzz
None of it made any sense. They entered the ice cave by breaking through what looks to be ocean ice, and then ended up in a snow and ice tunnel directly under the research station that was clearly built on solid ground.
The dudes were found killed by a "slab avalanche" while out on the ice? This was the final official cause of death, despite the look of fear, tangle of bodies, and clothes folded on the open ice that is not on a mountain, where a slab avalanche would actually occur.
And then you have the writing. Oh, please, Jodi, show indignation one more time when spirituality is mentioned. Really let us know you don't believe in that. We didn't get the picture in episode 1. I was so disappointment she had such trash to work with.
Or the ridiculousness of the mine, which I assume twirled it's own mustache as it listened to the research station dude telling them to dump MORE toxic pollutants because it helps them find a cure for who the #### cares anymore for reasons that are never explained. Like, if it was hot water discharge melting the permafrost it would make a fraction more sense. But why bother.
The whole thing was a series of mcguffins that were dropped as soon their usefulness expired in the march towards a nonsensical reveal of a commando revenge mission that made even less sense than the ice caves.
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To be fair, I think the explanation was that the mine was doing things as cheaply (and thereby causing the most pollution) as they could. The scientists were falsifying the data, to make it look like it was cleaner than it was and within whatever guidelines they had to follow.
But yeah. I don't get how the caves were underneath the station. They clearly showed people driving up to the station multiple times on solid ground. They even showed some shots that had the background, and there's clearly solid dirt all around. The ice caves run underneath the dirt? Maybe it was just a regular cave, but covered in ice?
The moral compass of the story was also really strange. The cops seemed to commit, or were complicit in, more murders than they solved. They were basically just a hit squad. Guess that's okay if it means bringing down a mine...who didn't actually know they were committing any environmental issues. They just basically copied the scene from season one where Marty kills Ledoux, but made the killings less justified and heat of the moment.