What happened in the Big Alice cull on Snowpiercer?
We knew Big Alice culled half of its population, but not exactly how. Snowpiercer Season 3, Episode 4 explained it all. Was it as bad as we thought?
We knew that there had been some sort of cull on Big Alice. During the second season, Alex explained that there had originally been 200 passengers. However, a shortage of food and other problems led to the removal of 100 passengers.
What we didn’t know was how it happened. Alex didn’t go into the details, and it left a lot to our imaginations.
Considering the movie’s storyline of cannibalism among the Tailies, it was easy to suspect that Wilford would have allowed such a thing. He’s all about survival, and we knew the cull was due to a lack of resources. Wouldn’t cannibalism help with that?
Well, Snowpiercer Season 3, Episode 4 went into the story. It wasn’t as bad as some of our imaginations made it out to be.
How did Wilford cull 100 people on Big Alice on Snowpiercer?
On the way to the Horn of Africa, Ben stopped the train. There was a blockage ahead, and it was soon clear that it was Big Alice cars. Alex immediately knew what this meant.
Alex wanted to go out alone to deal with the blockage, but Ben knew that this would be a two-person job. So, he went out, and that’s when he learned the truth.
Wilford had cut the trains in the middle of the night. Alex explained it was the best way to remove half of the passengers without much of a fight. And it sounds like the culled passengers had no idea what was going to happen.
Wilford had looked through the list of passengers. This wasn’t random. He wanted to find those who were the most useful for Big Alice, and that meant splitting some families apart. Alex was originally with the culled passengers, but Wilford came for her in the middle of the night and got her away. She was only around 10 or 11, and she left behind her best friend.
That night, Wilford cut the cars. The passengers froze to death in their sleep.
It didn’t involve cannibalism at all. We can like some of the Big Alice passengers again.
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