Hi, I'm Star Wars
Syl and this is the Remember Clone Captain Keeli blog.
Warning: This
post will contain spoilers for this episode, and any episodes that
came before it.
This
episode was rather uncomfortable for me. I love Tess and Cat's
relationship and I also love the relationship between Heather and
Cat. Seeing them so strained is a bit painful, though I have hopes
both will end up resolved. Probably only
after both women being lied to end up in the know. Late this season,
or next season possibly?
Okay.
Evan gave the subtle signals that should be warning flags for Been
Approached By Muirfield. It
would have been hard to say it louder. He
said he'd been given “an offer.” He
spoke to Cat about it,
which is big, considering
he knows she's been
lying to him all along, and it's his life she's lying to him about.
That's a big gesture of goodwill/faith, and it has all the hallmarks
of being the last one.
While I love Cat,
and I understand she was terrified about her sister, she displayed a
remarkable case of tunnel vision, and everyone will suffer because of
it. Including Heather. That's great you kept her from choking to
death, but since you refused to pay attention to the oncoming train,
it only staves off death five seconds. Congratulations, Darling, I'm
so proud of you. You're concern for your sister's safety does you
credit.
What
Heather needed in that moment was not a panicker. She needed someone
able to take on the immediate sword fight and notice
the bomber coming in low to drop death down on their heads. Cat
wasn't prioritizing, she was narrowing her sphere of responsibility
to the point where she— and everyone else— will be hit broadside
by something they had no excuse for not seeing coming.
Now
Even is not brought in, and the
Captain's baby brother is dead. Cat, by her refusal to make the best
of a situation out of control, and by getting ahead of the fire
perhaps direct it, has
now practically driven Evan into Muirfield's arms. What other choice
has she really given him?
And in
the meantime, we get to experience the up-down-up-down of Cat and
Vincent's relationship which has been a key theme of this season.
They decide yes, ten
seconds later it's no again,
back and forth. I'm confident that won't change for a good long while
yet, end of this season, or, Force forbid, the end of the final
season. Please no.
Ah,
well, I suppose this falls squarely in the category of Supernatural
Romance. Only... it's sci-fi.
He's a werewolf, but without the moon.
Okay. I'm not done
whining about the Evan situation. Feel free to close out this window
now, since I know I'm going to be unreasonable.
“I am scared for you, Cat.”
He's a cop and a decent person, and there's a potentially innocent
man lying dead on his table, and Cat says trust me, you
don't have to be. I will give
you, O Reader, twenty seconds to decide if that's a good play. I love
Cat. Just an episode or so ago she was raving about Alex not playing
smart, but here she's refusing to listen to her own (very good)
advice.
As for
what I really, really liked—
the comment that having a brother taken makes you do crazy things...
Like enlist? JT
asks. Like say yes to those crazy experiments, Vincent
replies.
I am
changing my speculation from before. I no longer think JT is his
brother, but I think Vincent did have one
or more brothers, and that something bad happened to one or more. In
fact, I'm going to narrow it down: my insane speculation is as
follows.
Vincent
has two siblings. One, a brother, died. It sent the other two in
different, but both harmful, ways. Vincent into the crazy experiment,
and the other sibling, into something much darker. Perhaps a life of
crime, or to be a hitperson, or something, and
that particular sibling will be an antagonist later on in the series.
Maybe not this season, but season 2 or 3.
And one more thing,
because I forgot to earlier— I'm torn between thinking Alex is
quite dead, or a hostage of Muirfield. No brain matter, so she could
always show up again... but I think it would be rather eloquent for
her to be dead with none of our heroes knowing about it.
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