That ten bucks is gonna buy a lot of gloating
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POHL: I'm going to propose we table lessons for the evening.
POHL (VO): I need to work out how best to help TWO students, after all.
POHL: Todd, the agents will have questions for me anyway, so how about I handle informing them, and you can focus on Amanda's mother?
TODD: I'd appreciate that, Thank you, Pohl.
POHL: My pleasure. Have a good night.
[POHL fishes out his smartphone]
POHL: Hey. Yeah, it's me. I need to report something, but I want to get the unpleasant part of this conversation over with quick.
POHL (VO): I owe you ten bucks.
THEN: Did I win THE bet? Oh, you haven't even SEEN how unpleasant I'm about to get.
POHL (VO): I need to work out how best to help TWO students, after all.
POHL: Todd, the agents will have questions for me anyway, so how about I handle informing them, and you can focus on Amanda's mother?
TODD: I'd appreciate that, Thank you, Pohl.
POHL: My pleasure. Have a good night.
[POHL fishes out his smartphone]
POHL: Hey. Yeah, it's me. I need to report something, but I want to get the unpleasant part of this conversation over with quick.
POHL (VO): I owe you ten bucks.
THEN: Did I win THE bet? Oh, you haven't even SEEN how unpleasant I'm about to get.
So much gloating
I’m sure Friday will clarify this, but … did they seriously have a bet on whether or not Amanda would manifest Echo abilities? Or is this about something else?
I think the bet was whether humans can be echos
More likely a bet on wether humans were echo capable; not specifically Amanda, since there is no reason for amanda to be the only orphan to develop echo powers due to proximity to Selkie (if that were the case, I would expect George to be an echo before Amanda.
We don’t know that George isn’t, though. He hasn’t been exposed to any of the triggers that “activated” Amanda yet afawk.
Genetic component maybe. This could mean Todd is also echo capable, which may be partly why he was drawn to Selkie that day back at the orphanage. Amanda also showed obsession as well. Proximity and time could be activating agents.
That, and I don’t think Then has met Amanda yet
She has, at the aquarium where Amanda and Selkie got into a “my parent is better than your parent” contest.
I realise my mistake now… for a second I thought Pohl’s wife was Then… and then I figured that she wouldn’t be topless and then I looked closer and saw no ponytail.
My guess is that it will be more along the lines of “I bet you ten dollars you’ll regret letting the sister be around for Echo training.”
It’s the kind of smug “I told you so” style bet I can see Then making.
I’m not sure which I want to see more, the explanation of the Echo Powers in Humans or how to explain this to Andi.
Welp. Then being back in the picture is going to be interesting. DX I hope someone kicks him in the ankle.
I’m hoping for something other than ‘ankle’.
Ah, a Duke and Duke bet.
so what happens if Amanda’s hair clip ever comes out?
That’s what I wanna know, she eventually has to wash her hair after all, maybe it’s waterproof but I’d assume it’d need to be taken out for shampooing. Hoping pohl put enough thought into it to accommodate for brief times without it
I’d assume most Sarnothi tech will be unaffected by water by the very construction principles they use underwater.
Despite his generally outwardly despicable behavior and Gatling gun-like snark and sass, Then still (narrowly) beats out Gien in terms of likability. Then is a know-it-all arsehat biding his time for the proof to strike the oscillating wind generating machines; Gien is a manipulative, compulsive arsehat who can’t see the forest from the kelp.
Then knew something from the word go regarding human/Echo interactions, but who would have believed him… Except the good doctor Pohl. Pohl perhaps DOUBTED whatever Then bet on, but the fact he took the bet tells me Pohl had a suspicion it might be true. Hate him all you want, but Then has answers Amanda desperately needs.
And Scar is going to become a lot more.. sociable than he ever dreaded he’d be, calling it now.