Yes, we have definitive proof that aliens exist.
Its just a flying saucer, Ed, Peggy said, delivering one of the seasons best lines.
Weve got to go.
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Of course, a flying saucer is neverjusta flying saucer.
There are already a million great theories circulating about what that flying saucer really means.
Is it a riff ona real-life close encounterthat a Minnesota sheriffs deputy claimed he experienced in 1979?
Is it a reference to another Coen brothers movie,The Man Who Wasnt There?
Is it a way of illustratingthe widespread feeling of paranoiain the aftermath of Watergate and Vietnam?
Is it just a local inside joke about Fargos ownSpace Aliens Grill & Bar?
Think about Ed and Peggy.
Think about Hanzee or Mike.
In the Fargoverse, morality is relative and indeterminate.
Think about Lou and Hank.
To them, that difference is not remotely subtle.
Its the essence of ethics.
Thats a little like living in a small Midwestern town, right?
But what about the times when you dont know that youre being watched?
Would that change how you behave?
Imagine that unknown watchman as an alien, spying upon Peggy and Ed and Hanzee and the others.
But here, in this godless Fargoverse, what exists above them are flying saucer lights.
The aliens are the gods… all-seeing, but also post-moral.
That was theory No.
But now that Ive seen so many other episodes, I wonder if its slightly more political than that.
In many ways, this season ofFargohas been about a nation on the brink of great change.
Her ideas are more modern than her lifestyle.
He no longer believes the lies he was raised to accept.
This world is beneath him.
The traditions long upheld by white men in America are starting to crumble.
I think [Hawley] was just trying to play into that.
Everyone thinks theyre the center of the universe, until they arent anymore.
And who believes theyre the center of the universe more than the people of Earth?
When those aliens finally descended in this weeks episode, it felt like a warning.
Some people might be dead.
Peggy and Ed might have survived.
But all of that is arbitrary.
Everyones just biding their time until the little green men take over.
