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I thought the narration and the literal book gave the whole episode a very Wes Anderson touch (which I'm totally cool with!). I initially thought it was Jude Law doing the narration, but it makes much more sense to be Martin Freeman. It seemed pretty ballsy to somewhat randomly put a narrated episode in, but I think that's what sets Fargo apart from the rest of TV at the moment - it's willing to take stylistic risks (like the split-screens as well) that give it a unique flavour.

Also, while I thought the UFO appearance was a bit ridiculous, it didn't make me dislike the episode at all. For some reason it all fits in well with the rest of the season and the whole Coen brother's universe.
 
**** that UFO was so unnecessary! What was the point of it? Take that 2 minutes of rubbish out and it was another cracker episode. Although as Mr Eagle noted it did produce a great line by Peggy - and I did admire Lou's gunshot splattering Bear's brain matter into the air landing on the car park asphalt. Noah Hawley and Steve Blackman wont be winning a writing Emmy for that effort.
 

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Mr Eagle said:
I could almost be disappointed by the UFO... but for Peggy's "It's just a flying saucer, Ed."
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Yeah that was a cool line actually.

Little things like UFO's don't faze you when you're fully actualised.
 
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Why UFOs.

Johnson was a Marshall County sheriff's deputy on night patrol outside Warren, Minn., near the North Dakota-Minnesota border. In the early hours of Aug. 26, 1979, he was driving a rural stretch of State Highway 20 when, he says, a ball of light appeared in the road.

"I noticed a very bright, brilliant light, 8 to 12 inches in diameter, 3 to 4 feet off the ground," Johnson said in a taped police interview. "The edges were very defined."

The next thing Johnson knew, the light was in the car with him.

It hit him, Johnson said, "like a 200-pound pillow."

He woke up in a ditch a half-hour later with burns around his eyes. The windshield and one headlight of his 1977 Ford LTD were smashed. Both radio antennas were bent sharply back. The watch on his wrist and the clock on the dash both ticked 14 minutes slow.​

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/10/27/fargo-val-johnson-incident
 
I thought the whole point of the narration was to let us know that this is a retelling of events, probably all from Lou's perspective, rather than something happening in real time.

Lou saw a light/UFO when he started to lose consciousness, we don't actually know if Bear or Hanzee or anyone else did, cos they're either dead or on the run. Bear might have just gone weak in the struggle with Lou because he was bleeding out.
 
Powerade 08 said:
I thought the whole point of the narration was to let us know that this is a retelling of events, probably all from Lou's perspective, rather than something happening in real time.

Lou saw a light/UFO when he started to lose consciousness, we don't actually know if Bear or Hanzee or anyone else did, cos they're either dead or on the run. Bear might have just gone weak in the struggle with Lou because he was bleeding out.
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we don't know who the survivors will be at this stage apart from Lou, little Molly and the Sh*t cop.
for all we know Hanzee gets abducted by a UFO (=no-one knows his fate).

however I do agree with the thrust of what you're saying.

I think it's wholly possible that events have been reconstructed via an amalgamation of Lou and Peggy's accounts; Lou's UFO sighting you've accounted for nicely (I thought that, too), and Peggy, well, she's a little touched, so of course it's entirely possible that she'd conjured up UFO's ...
The other incidents have been witnessed/experienced by people who either died or went missing, presumably ..
 
rumply said:
The UFO is the one sort of 'true' element of the story, while the rest is 'Coen Brothers true'. My guess anyway.

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/10/27/fargo-val-johnson-incident
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Haha after someone posted in the last couple of weeks the "true" element is artistic licence, I looked up the 1980 presidential campaign. We start this series in March 1979 the start of spring. Reagan is in town campaigning in episode 3rd or 4th show so I assume we are still in March/early April. Reagan did very little campaigning in the summer and fall of 1979 as he was so far in front, and with the Dakota's having bugger all delegates and Minnesota being scheduled for a summer 1980 primary state voting slot, Reagan wouldnt have been wondering around there in March/April 1979.
 
Slightly disappointed in that episode. Didn't like including the UFO in a pivotal scene, as others have discussed. Also didn't like the narration/voice over in the episode. Just don't think it quite worked as well as the writers and director would have hoped. Only a minor issue and the entire series has been great so happy to let it slide.
 

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RussellEbertHandball said:
Haha after someone posted in the last couple of weeks the "true" element is artistic licence, I looked up the 1980 presidential campaign. We start this series in March 1979 the start of spring. Reagan is in town campaigning in episode 3rd or 4th show so I assume we are still in March/early April. Reagan did very little campaigning in the summer and fall of 1979 as he was so far in front, and with the Dakota's having bugger all delegates and Minnesota being scheduled for a summer 1980 primary state voting slot, Reagan wouldnt have been wondering around there in March/April 1979.
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Yeah, that would have been me - gotta love the Coen's:)
 
Cursed_Cat said:
I think it's wholly possible that events have been reconstructed via an amalgamation of Lou and Peggy's accounts; Lou's UFO sighting you've accounted for nicely (I thought that, too), and Peggy, well, she's a little touched, so of course it's entirely possible that she'd conjured up UFO's ...
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So who gave them the stories about the cops' favourite places to pee? :D
 
JUBJUB said:
Yeah I didn't understand how he was there when they arrived
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Don't have the episode file anymore but didn't we see him on a rooftop spying on them? Can't remember if it was before or when they arrived at the hotel.

Just put it down under mystical native American tracking skills.
 

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Alesana said:
I might have missed something but how did the Indian know the cops were taking Ed and Peggy to the motel?
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The only logical explanation is Hanzee has access to police radio broadcasts. The Gerhardt's had the local cops in their back pocket so a police radio in the truck wouldnt be out of the question. Plus police radio isnt encrypted especially in 1979 analogue system.

Lou radios the cop car that Hank is in, plus the Chief and another cop or two. He tells Hank that Hanzee has shot the gas store owner. Hank says he cant go after him because they are going to the Motor Motel and he should sit this one out.

If Hanzee has access to the police radio channel, he would have got it from that conversation.
 
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Not sure how or why Hanzee got there unnoticed in the middle of the day.His picture was on the front page of the newspaper.

I'm also not sure about the aliens and the Gerhardt brothers and what was going on there.The Aliens seem to have had fascination with the Gerhardts acts of extreme violence in public .
 
HenrikLundqvist said:
Don't have the episode file anymore but didn't we see him on a rooftop spying on them? Can't remember if it was before or when they arrived at the hotel.

Just put it down under mystical native American tracking skills.
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Small bit of trivia. Zahn McClarnon who plays Hansee also plays the role of a native American tracker, Tall Trees, aka "The Professor" in the movie Bone Tomahawk - which also stars Patrick Wilson.
 
Lester Burnham said:
Small bit of trivia. Zahn McClarnon who plays Hansee also plays the role of a native American tracker, Tall Trees, aka "The Professor" in the movie Bone Tomahawk - which also stars Patrick Wilson.
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Should probably get that haircut otherwise he will be forever cast in the same role. Hopefully Peggy is a bit more obliging in the next episode.
 

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