Dominion - Broken Places

"I fear in all this moral greyness it may have been forgotten that I am the
baddy around here."

Alex is on the run from his destiny in the most literal sense, while Claire tries to game her own value and William announces the existence of the saviour to his angel-worshipping pain cult. Michael risks his life and Gabriel eats ice cream. There is some progression of Pseudosapphic Diplomat's plot, but I'm not really sure what it was.

Despite my slightly dismissive executive summary, this week's episode of Dominion picks up considerably after 'Godspeed', largely due to the heavyweight presence of Gabriel. Brutal, antagonistic, possibly psychotic, he is still one of the most interesting characters to emerge from the show so far. He slaughters a diner full of humans just to make a point and then savours their ice cream (so evil!) and kills one of his own minions to punish a third party for attacking Michael (it is unclear if this is from genuine fellow feeling, a sense that Michael could be turned, or just because fuck you, no-one kills my brother but me!)

When the good guys are so morally ambiguous and/or dull, it's genuinely refreshing to see some proper supervillainy.

Speaking of dull, Alex continues to annoy, and I think I've worked out what's really wrong with him as a character. It's not just that he is rejecting the call (it's going to happen; hero's journey 101,) but that he's inconsistent. He wants to leave Vega, but he's established as a fairly committed member of the angel-puncher brigade (even going off mission to punch more angels,) which makes his absolute rejection hard to credit. As even Quisling Will notes, he could totes be the saviour somewhere else.