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Fridge Brilliance
- In ""The Retrace Your Step-Alizer", there are a few hints that Terry, Korvo, and Jesse are stuck in the Pretend-o-Deck:
- Vanbo doesn't have a replicant. It has been shown the Shlorpian adults who escaped were granted a replicant, so the family shouldn't have been six members if you count Pupa, but rather seven.
- Vanbo is also shown to have no role, beyond getting Korvo and Terry to do chores: all of the five main Shlorpians have some kind of part to play in the mission: Korvo repairs the ship, Terry takes care of the Pupa, the Replicants go to school, and Pupa is to terraform the planet. "The Matter Transfer Array" mentions the Shlorpians were supposed to land on an uninhabited world, so having a team member who does nothing but get the others to do chores that don't even relate to the main mission seems rather odd.
- In addition, Vanbo is shown with Vanbi to have prosthetics and an eyepatch, despite the fact its been established in "The Booster Manifold" that the Shlorpians are so advanced that they can restore destroyed body parts. He mentions Vanbi nursed him back to health, but if Shlorp never blew up, he should've had access to the heightened level of medicine.
- Vanbi taunts Terry, saying that she isn't his science partner anymore. Considering as how the episode outright mentions Shlorp was a totalitarian world where conformity is law, switching fields just because you feel like it would almost certainly be taboo.
- Similarly, the episode suggests why Terry enjoys Earth compared to Korvo: on Shlorp, he would often get put down for his individualism. On Earth, beyond the fact people hate him for being a crazy alien, nobody is really telling him what to do but Korvo, so he's free to live his own life.
- The Shlorpians have Aerith and Bob names. This also corresponds to their attitudes towards Earth: Korvo and Yumyulack are alien names and most days, tolerate Earth; Korvo just wants to finish the mission, Yumyulack doesn't see the value if Pupa will just destroy it one day. Meanwhile, Jesse and Terry both enjoy Earth-life and don't mind assimilating.
- "Jesse" and "Terry" happen to be unisex names—if Jesse's comment in "The P.A.T.R.I.C.I.A. Device" is anything to go by, Schlorpians don't actually have biological genders, and can choose to be male or female.
- The first time you watch “Hululand”, you’ll probably wonder why nobody is bringing up Pezlie. This is a subtle clue as to what’s really going on, as Tim, who’s having a Dying Dream, isn’t aware of her existence.
Fridge Horror
- Yumyulack shrunk multiple humans, at first because of justifiable reasons, and then for petty crimes (and Tim simply because he had a red shirt). How many of them had actual lives they can't go back to? At least Enrique and Pedro had each other.
- Who's to say Lydia was really the first human he's shrunk?
- Protein is a rare and valuable commodity in the Wall, where most of the food that comes through is candy. Sweet Molly was extremely lucky she was valued for her milk, and not as a potential meat source...
- Terry mentions the Pupa is unpredictable: it can evolve into its true form at any time and if you're on Earth when it does, you get eaten and terraformed with the rest of us.
- The Red Goobler is still out there, waiting for Korvo to drop his guard and become so stressed he dies.
- Terry has a life mate, Teri, who presumably perished when the asteroid hit. 100 adults escaped, so who's to say they themselves didn't have friends and loved ones they left behind?
- Tim's position is kind of sad when you think about it. Unlike the people Yumyulack shrunk for petty reasons, Tim was abducted simply because he wore a red shirt.
- Cherie give birth to her daughter. Imagine the daughter growing up in the wall and not knowing what the outside world like.
- Why did the rich Shlorpians tell Korvo that he was bred for servitude, without seemingly expecting any insubordination? Well, they might have meant it literally, and Korvo reaction and episode finale didn't exactly disprove the notion.
- In the Season 4 finale, the Opposites temporarily leaving Earth for another planet so they can become Schlorpian again seems silly, it actually has some dark implications for the Wall storyline (and perhaps even the Silvercops storyline too):
- Since Jesse is no longer on Earth, that means she's also no longer in the house. This means there's nobody there to provide new resources (even if it's mostly just candy) to Nova and the other remnants of the Bowinian Church. Nova's restored faith and sense of hope after Jesse saved her from Sisto will be dashed as they eventually begin to starve. This will be taken as their god having abandoned them and - the Wall being the Wall - it won't be pretty.
- Yumyulack is on a whole new planet and still has access to the same technology he had before. Given how frustrated he'll be with looking human, still being treated as an alien freak on the new planet, and all the changes he'll have to adjust to, he could very well create a second Wall and fill it with members the new planet's main species, beginning a whole new cycle of suffering for people who were likely just minding their business until unintentionally upsetting Yumyulack, just like all the people of the Wall.
- If Glen does find a way back to Earth as a Silvercop before the family make it back to Earth or if they go back before they revert to their normal bodies for whatever reason, he'll either find the house abandoned or populated by people he doesn't recognize as those who shot him into space. He would take this to mean that he'll never get his revenge/justice and that he abandoned his new friends/found family and all he built with them and irreversibly changed his body for nothing, and he'll fall into despair.
- On the plus side, the shrunken humans will likely thrive in the backyard since the Opposites won't be there to upturn it with their shenanigans. If the home isn't sold while they're gone, there won't even be anyone to cut the lawn or ward off pests, which could be even better for the new society, since it means more plants they can use for food or building material and more animals that they could tame as mounts/cattle or game to hunt for meat and bone. Though if the house does get a new owner, they could interfere with all of that and even discover and exploit the shrunken humans.
