Foundation | MIDST | Season 3 Episode 4

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2 ай бұрын

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@parchmentengineer8169 2 ай бұрын

The most sickening part of all this is that Loxlee probably did all that completely legally within the Trust. He knew what he was doing was wrong, and that he was taking advantage of Lark's mother, but instead of feeling literally any guilt or remorse about it, he just deducted an inconsequential amount of Valor from his account and thought that made everything right.

@godminnette2 2 ай бұрын

I wonder if this could possibly be a metaphor for anything... hmm....

@DaBezzzz 2 ай бұрын

@@godminnette2 HMMMM....

@NavySteampunk Ай бұрын

The metaphors for our real world in this are absolutely stunning. It's almost like a fine only affects the poor and is a 'cost of doing business' for the rich...

@basebassguy Ай бұрын

Sing it with me kids! 🎶Laws are for the poor!🎵

@willcaster819 2 ай бұрын

Love the double meaning of the title “Foundation.” It works both in the makeup sense and in the Lark-lore-dropping-about-the-events-that-serve-as-the-foundation-of-this-whole-story sense.

@wannabe709 Ай бұрын

Also, it marks the foundation on which Lark and Phineas start trusting each other.

@kab6754 2 ай бұрын

I'm with Phineas. Hearing Lark speak more words than she's done across three seasons is scary

@Sirfinchyyy 2 ай бұрын

Very.

@crisscrossam 2 ай бұрын

She's never trusted anyone before so... at least now she does. Heck maybe she doesn't trust him that much, but she has to at least earn Phineas' trust so they can get on with their mission.

@xgon3825 Ай бұрын

2:25 Love them casually dropping the implication that they were just selling Midst shares in any old corner stores on the highest light while the people actually on Midst were trampling each other and getting fold bombed to get the same thing.

@blackfrost3272 2 ай бұрын

I came for the Phineas dress up arc, but stayed for the lore bomb drop from Lark. Man, this one's a good episode for this week

@pyrosianheir 2 ай бұрын

I've never understood a character in this series more than that poor service worker at the start.

@anorak8934 2 ай бұрын

Love the way they describe Loxlee as a person of narcissistic power and how creepy he actually is and the kind of person Lark actually saw him for, the way "Secret Weapon" was said gave me icky vibes

@crisscrossam 2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately it's not something new, stuff like that happens a lot in our own world. Looks like it's no different in Trust society. They might operate differently than our current but the people of the Midst universe are a perfect reflection of us.

@anorak8934 2 ай бұрын

@@crisscrossam totally agreed which is kinda scary, that there are people like this and probably even worse, adds to the realism of the story for me that these characters are real and the struggle is real against the Trust

@kainuscorevax3875 Ай бұрын

@@anorak8934 The creators of Midst call The Trust bureaucracy horror for good reason. Good horror takes something bad in our world and exaggerates to horrific proportions, puts it center stage. Each character is a reflection of how we deal with it. Lark rebled and rejected the whole system, went to live in the wild, free from the system but alone. Phineas is caught in the system. Trying his best to do the right thing in a system that demands he do the wrong thing and is eventually rejected by the system itself, because of his desperation to be a part of it.. Moc Weepe is the slick lier. Working the rules to cheat the system, thinking he's so smart. Until he is forced to see that it's so much bigger and more insidious than he could ever have thought. Now become a puppet of the system he thought he could control.

@rabidseabee7229 Ай бұрын

I think my response to Lark in that moment, in the dark apartment, would be "You did the right thing."

@michaelj.mccall6530 Ай бұрын

I started listening to this on Monday. It is now Saturday of the same week. I’ve binged the absolute monkey fuck out of this. This series is incredible! Has exactly 0 reliance on bad tropes ! The characters are incredibly written! The story is compelling! I love everything about this show!

@ianboswell 2 ай бұрын

I half wonder if the bad news she gave him that caused Maximilian to panic and kill Lark's mother was "I'm so sorry... But you're going to die soon. Like... Really soon!"

@tinkercat8268 2 ай бұрын

That was my thought, too.

@susanlee6473 2 ай бұрын

Is there a link somewhere or evidence that Lark's mum had fortune telling abilities, otherwise what other information could she have been providing to Maxi? (or did I miss something)

@tinkercat8268 2 ай бұрын

@@susanlee6473 it was implied in Larks story about how her mom “knew things” and that’s why he liked her and called her his personal weapon

@Landis963 2 ай бұрын

Self-fulfilling prophecies are always juicy. There was this other story I read where a fortune-teller made a prophecy foretelling danger entering a rival's path (the idea being that he would fall to that danger, or that the augur would claim victory while the rival was occupied), but failing to recognize that the quickest path to make that calamity occur was via his own death.

@njdevilsforlifewoohoo5533 2 ай бұрын

This is in my opinion the best episode yet. It will be a sad day when the series ends. But I can always binge listen.

@cosmic_wind 2 ай бұрын

I bet Lark could never have imagined that the person she'd eventually tell her story to would be someone from the Trust.

@LastofAvari 2 ай бұрын

I gotta put your trust into somebody eventually.

@cosmic_wind 2 ай бұрын

@@LastofAvari I see what you did there

@crisscrossam 2 ай бұрын

The ex 2nd highest ranking officer too, the consector's right hand, nonetheless. It shows that she's starting to trust Phineas' Uno-reverse move.

@matthewgordon3281 2 ай бұрын

Lots of threads being tied up, letting us really see the nature of the Trust. Great episode

@icepear8771 2 ай бұрын

That opening. That opening. That opening.

@wtpauley 2 ай бұрын

That lore drop, damn... amazing.

@crisscrossam 2 ай бұрын

I love how all of this pretty much shows that no matter how complex the Valor-Caenum system is, it's still very much flawed and it will never be perfect. I mean, babies racking up Caenum? Indebted in a way they can't repay because they were rescued from somewhere they didn't choose to be? Notaries having to do all the work of calculating people's Valor with which the information may be untrue or incomplete? That's not good at all.

@prettymuchlaura5 2 ай бұрын

So good! I love the art in this episode. Also, the asmr of lark cutting her hair 😆

@aleenawoodward1964 Ай бұрын

Why does this podcast have me in an absolute headlock !?! I need MORE!

@user-hs1xb9tv6e 2 ай бұрын

One hell of an episode. I can definitely see why Lark did what she did, and I really wonder what will happen if the Trust will find out that their so called "most valorous person" wasent so valorous after all.

@RachelShortyRRees 2 ай бұрын

My guess is nothing, the Trust will do nothing. They will say there is no one to coroborate Lark's story so she is lying.

@Landis963 2 ай бұрын

@@RachelShortyRRees The Upper Trust will move to disavow, yes, but the rest of them? The ones for whom the bright mask of the Trust is starting to show cracks? I wonder.

@zlatan_2197 2 ай бұрын

What a lore drop.. More the season finale gets closer it's going to be more and more jaw dropping I'm sure.

@Draange Ай бұрын

Dang, that is some major lore drop. Phineas's story was heavily implied, but the daily tests and bills was just ouch. Lark's story shed's (fold-safe) light on her motivations for the killing. Even more sickening is the fact that people were so upset about the death of the oh-so illustrious Loxley that none of them stopped to consider that the killer's mother was the last person he was willingly around and went missing the same day. Or maybe the workers did bring it up but were dismissed. (Is it wrong that I'm curious what the fold in those vats did to her body? Would she have melted or turned to stone?)

@laineybug5850 2 ай бұрын

The opening perfectly captures what it feels like to get decision paralysis in the grocery store🤣

@kingofroses302 2 ай бұрын

Now this is a really good episode. I hope after Midst concludes, we can get more nior style stories or moments from Third Person.

@Tallia3 2 ай бұрын

This episode was so good that I had to listen to it on both the podcast AND the KZfaq video ❤

@ASquared544 Ай бұрын

My immediate thoughts on seeing Phineas in the first portrait was “Oh my god he’s so… babygirl now”

@hunterwallasus3582 Ай бұрын

NOW??? You mean he wasn’t baby girl before?????

@shmee123ful 2 ай бұрын

. im almost glad it was something as mundane as murder and an afar with her mum that had Lark kill maxmillian loxslie, i was worryed he did things to lark. things that would earn him a slow agonizing death

@andyandbrianastratton542 Ай бұрын

I love the Midst story telling.

@justiineniicole Ай бұрын

and the story continues to get better and better each week!

@Syco108 2 ай бұрын

Bravo! This story is so gripping and engaging! I'm thoroughly enjoying this tale.

@KristinBowles 2 ай бұрын

What an absolutely satisfying history reveal!

@deejed 2 ай бұрын

Favorite episode yet

@yessmabie919 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic! Chills down my spine!

@AnaPradosA 2 ай бұрын

This episode is a bomb. I can't wait to hear from them again and see where the story head to from here.

@theyellowstripe1 2 ай бұрын

Have we heard anything about Larks dad? I thought we were going in the direction of Loxley being Larks dad, but I don't know now.

@orandor6249 2 ай бұрын

Beautiful, excellent and haunting! Loved this episode!

@Feetareleghands 2 ай бұрын

I'm so invested in this even more now.

@williamfonseca8812 2 ай бұрын

Just, Amazing no others words to discryb this episode.

@kacyrupp4644 2 ай бұрын

What a great story. Thanks again, Third Person.

@Bgant1984 2 ай бұрын

We need these scenes for wallpaper engine

@codyschultz7260 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely love this series

@wasabiavocado 2 ай бұрын

This was a great episode for answering some questions. I loved this one 😊

@Migolcow 2 ай бұрын

A bit weird, I would assume a place in the Highest Light would have all kinds of surveillance, mechanical or otherwise. That they got into Phineas' apartment when there's no reason to assume him dead almost feels like a trap to be sprung.

@kingskelett6265 2 ай бұрын

That is true. But either they lack any recognition software, afterall I doubt they would have someone checking every single camera, or his disguise is actually working. Honestly though, I also have the feeling that the reason for lacking surveillance (if it is lacking which i think it is) might just be because they don't feel the need to. The problem with such big powerful systems is that they can become very arrogant and feel untouchable. Especially with their valour-kainum (however you spell it) thing being a usually usable deterent. Do something bad and you risk going into debt.

@willcaster819 2 ай бұрын

@@kingskelett6265 Again, there are no video cameras. The highest forms of recording technology we’ve seen are teletherics (radio) and the Incendiary Imaging Device (camera). And the Imaging device was a fairly recent invention. It was so easy because there is no video surveillance.

@brennam.3579 2 ай бұрын

Keep in mind that even with the ridiculous fantasy mechanics happening here, it's meant to be technologically set roughly somewhere around the Industrial Age. Their idea of a 'camera' at the grand gala is extremely close to what the original cameras used to be - a questionably contained explosion that seared onto a plate. There's no surveillance because there's no such thing as film as of yet.

@kingskelett6265 2 ай бұрын

@@brennam.3579 True I forgot about that ^^

@andyandbrianastratton542 Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Tainteddragon 2 ай бұрын

❤ I do hope someone gets a happy ending

@matluoma9195 2 ай бұрын

Seems like the valor based economy has collapsed, the Trust (er Moc Weep) hasn’t informed the population of the replacement yet.

@Sirfinchyyy 2 ай бұрын

Hehehe "valourous is his memory". I guess the trust trusts too much for cameras. Also, these episode are always too short, yet somehow very long. Mad props to the narrators/creators.❤

@clellieirwin2155 23 күн бұрын

I'll bet Imogen Loxlee was never happier than the day she got that call.

@goatelope7539 2 ай бұрын

Love the stories

@ddubmomo 2 ай бұрын

Oh snap! Finneas is gonna start doing drag!? Yaaaaaaaaas! …oh.

@leitm3912 2 ай бұрын

He obviously knows how to do makeup because in the early episodes he had to put it on when he was attending ceremonies and stuff. As adsecla he had to always have a good appearance when in public.

@raistlinmajere5550 2 ай бұрын

Lark is vengence Lark is the night but with no stupid dont kill rule

@cosmic_wind 2 ай бұрын

That haircut looks quite professional. Lark, are you sure you haven't worked at a hair salon before?

@hunterwallasus3582 2 ай бұрын

Maybe that was one of her past careers!

@cosmic_wind 2 ай бұрын

@@hunterwallasus3582 She'd last about a day or two at a salon, with her attitude. And, this is me being generous here 😅

@MrSHADOWANGEL999 2 ай бұрын

Wild

@JoepertN 2 ай бұрын

LARK LOREE

@wargameraz9272 2 ай бұрын

Yep.

@DrakeAurum 2 ай бұрын

What's in the BOCS?

@willcaster819 2 ай бұрын

There are BOC in the BOCS

@michaelj.mccall6530 Ай бұрын

Dude!!

@bluebloodsn0wman 2 ай бұрын

agony

@brucebennett5338 2 ай бұрын

dang

@cameronbuchalter8303 11 күн бұрын

"Valorous is his memory" Is it? Is it really?

@bluefox5331 Ай бұрын

The whiplash I got from seeing... contemporary looking supermarkets in Midst podcast??? Suprise! The highest light is just.. modern capitalism

@LividE101 2 ай бұрын

What do you mean "I think I have an idea" what does she know what is she going to do I'm losing my mind here

@WitchLunaEstrella 2 ай бұрын

My theory is that she suspects that Sherman spilled the beans (which he did). He's the only other person that would've possibly known about it and, tragic as it is, she knows that.

@sinbycosvi9 2 ай бұрын

What the fuck are these bots lmao

@danielgreen6382 2 ай бұрын

What if this is their session zero?

@Crazytrain42 2 ай бұрын

😍😁

@kriscerosaurus Ай бұрын

Hooooly shit.

@susanlee6473 2 ай бұрын

Anyone else see a hidden message in Phineas' rug? Also what are BOCS?

@Landis963 2 ай бұрын

I'm not seeing the hidden message, but "Bocs" seem like a handy abbreviation for "bocular horses," the carriage-like conveyances that the narrators have taken a fiendish delight in refusing to describe.

@susanlee6473 2 ай бұрын

@@Landis963 ah yes the bocular beasts, makes sense. The rug?, well I think I do too many puzzle games. 😅

@kseniabiazruchanka4958 2 ай бұрын

So…. Why did the moon blow up?

@Landis963 2 ай бұрын

We still don't know. I imagine that revelation will happen in another plotline - probably Spahr's plot, at a guess, if whatever caused the moon's explosion happens here in the Highest Light.

@kseniabiazruchanka4958 2 ай бұрын

@@Landis963 yeah I know that we do not know. It’s just that we got such a huge lore dump about Trust, now I’m waiting for the moon explanation😁 the moon plot has been going on literally from the first second of the show and we still know nothing about that.

@AnaPradosA 2 ай бұрын

my main theory is now related to Imelda maths. I think she engineer a situation to be the shadow power of the trust