Cas, in particular, is enjoying a decent character arc, her calculated actions here a far cry from the rash ones at the beginning of the season. Having left bizarre people and ideas like Paula behind, even if it’s only temporarily, concentrates more focus on understandable points of view. It’s still silly, but it’s less flagrantly ridiculous, which is an improvement. How very human of him.īringing Another Life back down to Earth benefits it. It also makes him a target of Seth, who uses him to locate the base of the resistance movement, commit atrocities, and extract information using his strange alien implement. Love compels him to go against the grain, to have more in common with the resistance than the establishment. ![]() ![]() Erik remains an outlier since he’s concerned, primarily, with reuniting with Niko. It makes sense, too, that the Salvare crew are immediately isolated they can’t, after all, be allowed to interfere with the wider plans of people like Seth, who evidently has designs of his own. With all this in mind, it makes sense that Cas decides to keep what they know about the Achaians to themselves. It’s Paula landing on a random planet in this case it has been various, much more local examples throughout history in the real world. On a larger scale, it works as a metaphor for colonization, humanity trying to impose their way of life on cultures they don’t understand. That’s basically the same thing as what’s going on with Iara potentially incompatible natures. You see it with Seth and Harper Glass and their Achaian implants, a means by which they can be controlled by parties outside themselves. But I suppose it’s part of a burgeoning theme, the idea of warring impulses conflicting in the same vessel. I made fun of her as soon as she was introduced, since there’s very little more ill-fated in science-fiction than sentient technology, especially when it’s at war with itself. Less compelling is everything going on with Iara. This, for once, is a pretty compelling dynamic. ![]() Their emergence through the wormhole causes some fuss, and Erik’s experiments are being talked about over the airwaves, so in this way, Cas is able to catch wind and wonder, not unreasonably, whether the crew will be welcomed back to Earth given how they have interacted with the Achaia thus far. Following the bisecting of the Salvare in the previous episode, Richard and Niko might have been left behind, but Cas and the others are back on Earth – or near Earth, anyway.
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