Van Lathan

Right.

So that establishes the framework that there are brilliant people who through guile, a little bit of luck and circumstance were able to survive.

So Annie's character just lets you know that there are many Annie's.

There are many Annies, and this is how they survived.

Number two, Annie's meeting of Dylan and the rest of the people, or Link, and the rest of the people that he's traveling with, kind of lets you see how people are surviving.

And not just that they are surviving, that they have bacon, that they can fashion vehicles to move around, but that they still have goals.

Mm-hmm.

That is really important for the season because the season ends up setting up this dynamic where they're competing interests of people.

And that's not what the first season was about.

The first season was about competing interests of people maybe inside of the bunker.

But now the second season sets up or Annie's character sets up that people still have things that they want to do.

They still have goals and desires.

They still have visions about how the world should be run.

All of that stuff did not die during the apocalypse.

It actually endured the apocalypse just like Annie did.

And also, through her character, last thing, there is a birth.

Yeah.

incredibly important.

There's a part in the show where they just go, babies are built to survive.

They say babies are built to survive because Annie's baby is taken by Sterling and then he has to travel with the baby and all of that stuff.