Daniel Chin

going side by side with this conversation that she's having with Coop in the present, where Coop is just accusing her of being, you know, this monster and just, like, who could be worse than you?

And she's clearly just struggling through this, too, and just a part of this larger machine.

Yeah, I mean, I think it was really just necessary to see Barb's perspective at some point, like just being able to see these parallels, as you're alluding to, and just having this conversation with Wilson, too, which I'm sure Rebecca, too, as well.

I had to look it up right before the final.

I can't keep disrespecting Mike Lemerson like this.

So aggressive, but I just love the delivery on it too.

And I will say, like, I was so excited to see this play out.

And one of the side effects of just having so many things happening is you just have to move really quickly through some of these scenes.

So, like, that initial conversation was just so quick.

Yeah.

And just left on that, like, kind of bomb.

Yeah.

Just like...

Were you always a monster?

And it picks back up like 30 minutes later.

Yeah, I think that's one of the things that comes out really nicely in this whole sequence and in this episode of just seeing that there is always this side of Coop and the cool.

But also, like, there's just this kind of annoying bit of just righteousness and him being a little naive to the whole situation.

I think it's a really good parallel to the way Lucy is in the modern timeline as well.

Because it's like he's saying all these things to Barb, but it's also just knowing, especially after seeing her perspective, it's like,

This is going to happen.