Although it’s been nicely over per week since Season Two of The Rehearsal wrapped up, a lot of followers are nonetheless obsessing over the finale, probably with assistance from a cork board and string.
As anybody who watched all of The Rehearsal (or caught Nathan Fielder on Wolf Blitzer’s CNN present) is already conscious, “My Controls” ended with Fielder acquiring his pilot’s license and seemingly taking a 737 filled with actors for a quick aircraft journey. The comic later dubbed this momentous flight the “Miracle Over the Mojave,” purely to stay it to Captain Sully.
However after the episode aired, suspicious followers determined to dig a bit of deeper, and uncovered knowledge indicating that there have been a number of flights, not only one because the present recommended. In consequence, some people theorized that Fielder solely ever piloted empty 737s for the cameras, and ceded the captain’s chair to a extra skilled pilot when passengers have been on board.
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Nicely, now these identical on-line sleuths have yet one more piece of proof to look at.
Over on Reddit, a Rehearsal fan shared a photograph of what seems to be an “precise boarding cross” for Fielder’s non-public flight. “A co-worker of mine was one of many actors on Nathan’s flight,” the submit reads. “He mentioned he bought a traditional textual content from his reserving service the day earlier than, then a follow-up textual content asking if he was okay with flying. He had no thought {that a} first time pilot/comic could be piloting the aircraft till others on the flight found out what was taking place.”
Whereas many sympathized with the actor’s brutal seat downgrade (“Most likely a horny individual was allowed to steal the unique ticket holder’s seat,” somebody speculated), others have been stunned to be taught that not everybody on the aircraft was conscious of the true nature of the flight. “Wait, what in regards to the opening scene of the episode the place he’s making it clear to particular person actors that he would be the one piloting the flight?” one person questioned. “Did he solely inform a few of the actors and never everybody?”
It’s true that the episode started with Fielder sitting down with lots of the actors who we had already met over the course of the present, inviting them to take one other job enjoying passengers on a “actual Boeing 737” that he himself could be piloting.
Fielder acknowledged that this is able to be “unconventional for an performing position,” telling one actress, “if any a part of you feels even the slightest bit hesitant or uncomfortable with this, I simply need you to know (it’s) completely wonderful if you wish to choose out or not take part, I might not be offended in any method.”
Clearly Fielder couldn’t personally communicate with all 150 passengers in entrance of cameras, however the present definitely implied that the individuals have been all conscious that Fielder could be flying the aircraft, and that he didn’t need anybody to really feel “unsafe,” which is a far cry from getting a mass textual content that solely made certain actors have been “okay with flying.”
The episode additionally made an enormous deal of the truth that the aircraft was filled with actors as a result of Fielder hadn’t accrued sufficient hours to work for an airline, however discovered a “loophole” that might legally enable him to fly paid professionals, reasonably than paying prospects.
All of which is to say that if Fielder actually was piloting the passenger aircraft, and never all the individuals on board have been knowledgeable that their pilot was a former Comedy Central star who didn’t have the identical degree of expertise as a typical industrial pilot, that looks as if a possible authorized nightmare. One which HBO very seemingly wouldn’t approve.
However a lot of Fielder devotees appear fed up with these efforts to debunk the comic’s obvious achievement. “He’s a totally licensed pilot, that’s all I must know. I’m okay with the remainder of it nonetheless being a bit of mysterious,” one fan famous.
Possibly we’ll discover out extra within the eventual Nathan Fielder biopic starring Tom Hanks.
