re: The Fargo Season 2 Thread - Monday's 9PM Central

I hypothesize that the UFO was a helicopter, or helicopters. All the people that saw it presumably will be killed in the near future except Solverson. He was being chocked to death by Bear at the time. Your mind will play funny tricks on you when you are close to death. Just my attempt to explain things. TIFWIW.

It could be a military thing, it could be UFO. It could link back to Ted Danson's room, probably does. I'm sure they wouldn't just toss that in without an awesome finish in mind. It could be open ended, it could be clear cut. I trust it will be highly entertaining. Not disappointed in the least because the writers, director, ect., always put in things with solid backgrounds of knowledge they personally have themselves. That's the mark of a great writer. You don't just guess. You know. And, like the Indian and the hair, you can take it very deep for those who have studied that subject and/or also have deeper knowledge, while at the same time make it simple and still highly entertaining for those who don't know the possible history or logic behind the scene. I think it's going to finish strong. And, since they've totally blown everyone's mind, and we don't where it's going, you really leave out the part where people can have an idea and then be disappointed. Clever on that part, too.

Season 3 is taking place after season 1

“It’s just a flying saucer Ed, we need to go.”

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Yikes, so I guess he's sticking with the UFO thing. Guess he thinks that was a good idea

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Well, I think it will be left up to interpretation. Like someone else said, the UFO is part of the story as it is being told. We may find out that Lou is the only survivor of those that were there. If his account is the only account of what happened there, I am ok with this. He believes he saw a UFO, when it could have just been a hallucination of his as the oxygen to his brain was being choked away.

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You’re going to have to see the end of the story and look back at it and ask how you feel about the deus ex machina of a UFO saving Lou Sovlerson’s life and what would happen if it hadn’t.

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I don't know why, but my first thought when the light of the UFO shined on him was his wife. Don't know if she's quite dead yet, but I thought about some sort of connection between the two things happening. I'm pretty sure that's a stretch, though. But I have pulled one out of left field once this season.

Oh, and several people there saw the UFO, or whatever it was. They made sure with Peggy's classic comment to Ed.

It's the late 70's, so my first thought was Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and all of the UFO hooplah that was out there in that decade.

Starting with Chariots of the Gods in 1970 and going through CEotTK, we were pretty obsessed with UFO's. This really does give the series an added 70's feel.

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"Just a flying saucer"

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That was great. It's nothing just a flying saucer. WTF.

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You’re going to have to see the end of the story and look back at it and ask how you feel about the deus ex machina of a UFO saving Lou Sovlerson’s life and what would happen if it hadn’t. I think those elements in a story are really exciting because we’re so unused to having them. We usually separate our genres more neatly. To suddenly have a genre element come into a dramatic story is exciting.

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Yikes, so I guess he's sticking with the UFO thing. Guess he thinks that was a good idea

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There was a "credible" UFO encounter at that time.

We know Solverson survives as he was in season one.

It's his story. He says he saw a UFO.

Don't let it ruin the show for you, we are watching a "true story" as told by the survivors, not life in motion.