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As the Ferren arrive to honour their oath to Dutch, things start to go a bit Pete Tong for the Killjoy army. Three Racks have been blown up, Dutch is off on a personal mission, Turin has alienated Fancy and the other Cleansed by treating them like traitors waiting to happen, and the Black Root ships have a kind of neural networking that lets them fly in incredible formation or – for those lacking the correct cerebral architecture – fly into one another. The Cleansed could fly them, but see above.
Dutch’s thing involves getting Zeph to patch Aneela’s memories into her and so learn whatever Khlyen wanted her to know. This is a dangerous prospect, risking getting lost in someone else’s memories and/or suffering irreversible brain damage, but had you noticed that Dutch is a little bit obsessed about this subject. ‘The war is all,’ she declared previously, and for her it’s even more personal. So, in she goes, to discover the truth of Khlyen and Aneela’s Qreshi origins, and also her own ‘birth’ as a Green-powered recreation of Aneela’s younger self, birthed by Aneela’s will alone to alleviate her loneliness after Khlyen conceals her from the vengeance of a mysterious other ‘her’ by isolating her in one of his cube vaults.
“She’s the me I should have been if we never went to Arkyn. She’s your good wolf, Papa. Maybe now you can forgive me for not being good enough.”
I can not begin to tell you how happy it made me that they used the old story that the episode is named for, but that it doesn’t try to make the moral of the story a revelation.
While Johnny races to break through Zeph’s locks and contact Lucy, D’av struggles to restore faith with the Cleansed, which in the end requires him to take down Turin, arresting his former commander for arresting other Killjoys, specifically the Cleansed, without warrant. This impressed the Ferren enough to transfer their oath to him, and the Cleansed enough to get the army their pilots. Once Johnny has recovered Dutch from the rabbit hole of her own mind by re-enacting their first meeting, he lets her finish her business and get that last revelation, because he’s got her back; always has done, even after she caught him trying to steal her ship.
Back at the Rack, D’av tries to get Dutch to shape up, but she tells him that she’s always going to have to take this personally, which means that he has to lead the army. Once more, Killjoys knocks it out of the park with its relationships. I absolutely adore the way our three leads interact, the way they know and trust one another. I’m way behind on it at the moment, but hopefully I can get my shit together and close out Season 3 before DC season sets in hard.
“She’s the me I should have been if we never went to Arkyn. She’s your good wolf, Papa. Maybe now you can forgive me for not being good enough.”
I can not begin to tell you how happy it made me that they used the old story that the episode is named for, but that it doesn’t try to make the moral of the story a revelation.
While Johnny races to break through Zeph’s locks and contact Lucy, D’av struggles to restore faith with the Cleansed, which in the end requires him to take down Turin, arresting his former commander for arresting other Killjoys, specifically the Cleansed, without warrant. This impressed the Ferren enough to transfer their oath to him, and the Cleansed enough to get the army their pilots. Once Johnny has recovered Dutch from the rabbit hole of her own mind by re-enacting their first meeting, he lets her finish her business and get that last revelation, because he’s got her back; always has done, even after she caught him trying to steal her ship.
Back at the Rack, D’av tries to get Dutch to shape up, but she tells him that she’s always going to have to take this personally, which means that he has to lead the army. Once more, Killjoys knocks it out of the park with its relationships. I absolutely adore the way our three leads interact, the way they know and trust one another. I’m way behind on it at the moment, but hopefully I can get my shit together and close out Season 3 before DC season sets in hard.
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