The opening scene of tonight’s episode might have confused you a little, and not for the reasons you might think. Yes, I know that the dimensional rift caused the buildings to meld together, along with the people. But that’s not the little difference I’m talking about. I’m referring to an offhand remark that puts the opener in a different perspective than it originally was.
When the coworker asks the man “Is that real coffee?” I thought it was an odd thing for her to say, but I didn’t think much of it. Maybe coffee was outlawed in their building or something, I reasoned. It wasn’t until after the episode that I realized that real coffee would be rare in a universe that had a blight killing off all the plant life, as Thomas Newton mentioned in “Grey Matters.”
So this means that the opening scene of the episode was acutally placed in the alternate universe, as opposed to our universe like I’m sure some of you (but not all) have realized. It’s a very interesting notion to think that the blight is so bad that it’s even killed off coffee crops. No wonder they all want to come over here.