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HBO. I'm Jim. I'm A-run and today we're talking about season 3 episode 3 titled The Absence of Field, which if you're not aware and I wasn't certainly,

the absence of Field is a line in a poem by a man named Mark Strand, that name might sound familiar to you from last season,

called Keeping Things Whole. And it is essentially a poem about the intertwined natures of the part of something or parts of something and the whole of something.

And I saw a lot of relevance in that poem when it comes to sort of the makeup of humanity,

which is something we've been talking about in Picard as well, especially with that last episode,

how humanity is now a different thing, right?

The family of humanity has expanded, and now it's, it encompasses organic life forms and synthetic humanity.

Homosynthetic.

Yeah, and how you kind of need both. The whole is indistinguishable from its parts and without a single part the whole doesn't exist.

Yeah, it's it's the poem gives you a lot to think about if you read it in its entirety.

It's only like 18 lines. It's a very short poem.

Yeah, the first stanza is where the title comes from in a field, I am the absence of a field. This is always the case. Wherever I am, I am what I, what is missing?

That's pretty profound, especially when you think about terms of the host experience, Caleb's experience. It's interesting that Dolores uses

traumatic memories of Caleb to kind of trigger his awakening in similar ways that the reverie code worked in season one to have hosts ruminating on their terrible life experiences.

It's a lot of interesting connections. In fact, I thought, because the next thing we're probably going to talk about is how we we like this episode

I really like this episode

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