The plot begins to thicken throughout the course of those two episodes of The Ark that noticed some monumental catastrophes resembling poisonous water and a close to collision with a comet plague the crew. It’s at all times spectacular how everybody comes collectively to outlive, regardless of private variations and conflicts – you, Lane.
It was a nice change of tempo to see him bond with Garnet a bit however the reveal of the video clip and the following categorised info he is not aware of sends them proper again to sq. one. I do just like the dynamic between the three lieutenants who’re all undoubtedly starting to really feel the pressure even with the added assist of characters like Eva and Felix who’ve their very own issues.
There’s a number of good character work interspersed throughout the tense motion of attempting to outlive hour to hour. We be taught Garnet is a clone and a part of a secret authorities experiment and that her sister died. Brice in the meantime is mysteriously determined to keep away from a medical check-up which is not arduous contemplating the day-to-day chaos of the ship however no matter he is hiding will come out quickly whether or not it is in a second of weak spot or as a part of Felix’s scrupulous homicide investigation. His pure terror on the hallucination of Kabir attempting to do the medical check-up was one of many extra visceral moments of the fourth episode.
The surprise children, Angus and Alicia are additionally beginning to get much less annoying – neither of them aggravated me as soon as in these episodes and Cat continues her sluggish journey of turning into a extra sympathetic character as we get some neat little world constructing about UV storms on Earth.
One character I hope we begin to be taught extra about is Lane. Everyone else is getting extra depth and complexity to their motivations and character however Lane appears fairly caught on his mistrust of Garnet. He appears to care about defending the crew and their well-being and he and Garnet appear to be a basic duo of 1 being led by the center and one led by the mind. I’m hoping future developments will permit him to belief Garnet totally to create extra cohesive management the place Brice does not need to consistently mediate.
The fourth episode ends with Angus ominously suggesting that there could also be an alien risk on the market whose weapon broken the ship. I’m not too eager on the concept of aliens being launched because the claustrophobic combat for survival on the Ark felt like a contemporary and introspective tackle the sci-fi style to me and an alien risk may take the main target away from that. One good factor that will come out of getting an exterior enemy although is it’d pressure Lane to belief and work with Garnet quite than in opposition to her.
There are just a few mysteries left unanswered within the two episodes although, particularly Lane’s data of the place the homicide weapon was discovered and no matter conspiracy mission Baylor’s on, regarding Susan Ingram and discovering like-minded individuals. It looks like a reasonably hefty plot thread to be introducing on high of murders, alien threats and the battle for survival nevertheless it does widen the suspect pool for the homicide and I’ve been fairly suspicious of Baylor ever since he hid these oxygen tanks again within the first episode.
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