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Under The Waves' submarine 70s grief flat is nicer than my homeIs internet included?
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Like, sure, it’s at the bottom of the sea, but Stan works from home so there’s no commute. Plus, if he did get a job on the surface, the commute is about half an hour, based on the intro, and my commute between London and Brighton used to be twice that. It’s not great for local amenities and there’s no public transport, but there’s ample parking for your mini sub. It’s also just quite nice, like. The 70s style is, in 2023, retro enough to be cool again, so I like the smooth edges and burnt orange all over the place.
I get a similar kind of Drew-Scanlon-blinking-meme moment whenever someone in a TV show or movie says they have a “crappy apartment” and then opens the door on some kind of luxury Ikea Narnia. And in fairness, though Stan’s entire existence is to contemplate tragedy, he is aware that his literal and figurative pressurised environment is pretty nice. He remarks that the TV (which has excellent reception) is bigger than the one at home. Thematically it makes sense as well, because the life pod needs to be a nice home to get back to after spending a day sad-swimming around a big, green-blue void, so the cream and orange is a perfect colour wheel contrast. Stan has horrible nightmares, too, so it’s important the living space feels safe. This would then make it even more effective if, say, that safety were in some way breached later on.
So in general I’m very happy for Stan and his lovely underwater flat. I’m just saying. This housing crisis has really come to something, hasn’t it?
