Julia and Norrie make it back to the safe point, with Jim
lecturing Norrie on being careless (though, really, as Julia almost points out,
Norrie needed to be put them at risk to save Julia from another of her terrible
ideas. Because Julia.) She also warns them that Eva is now super pregnant and
ready to give birth to new evil alien baby at any moment, powered by girl
sacrifice.
Jim suggests killing Eva and her evil baby and Julia is
outraged that the solution to evil kind controlling aliens invading the planet
may include violence
Damn it Julia, stop making me agree with Jim.
No, she’s going for the cure (particularly since Barbie
kissed Eva which is obviously an ulterior motive). So they need Christine’s DNA
and a test subject (not Hunter because he’s not in the full throes of the
infection).
Hunter shows Norrie the footage he found including Lily’s
now white-staticy father (the sign of the possessed). Norrie’s also kind of
edgy after killing someone.
Julia manages to find Christine’s hair from the barn
where Eva was kept – please note that there were 12 girls sacrificed in this
barn and who knows how many more attendants and guards. It’s also filled with
straw. But Julia found not just a hair, but a hair she KNOWS is Christine’s. Even
a CSI writer would be calling bullshit.
Jim has also caught on to the fact Julia is all pro-cure
and suddenly not quite sure about love conquering all the minute Barbie goes
back to Eva, though Julia does have the excuse that they need the cure before
the dome calcifies and kills them all.
Which is when they’re found by Junior and some Kinship extras – and the Acteon guards happily kill the extras leaving Junior as their prisoner. And guinea pig for cure testing. He gets tied up to a stretcher while science happens and Jim clumsily tries to reach out to his son. Maybe they could connect through mutual awfulness? It’s the one thing they have in common! Junior ominously declares they will need the Kinship to survive.
While they’re doing that Hunter and Norrie show Julia that Partrick, Lily’s father, a possessed man, is still alive. In classic Julia fashion she storms in, calls off the cure and accuses Hector of lying. All in front of Lily as well. While Lily goes to watch the video Hector described what happened to Patrick (basically became possessed energy). Jim is worried that could happen to Junior – hey no loss there!
Jim agrees to try the cure. Hector doesn’t have to pry it
out of Julia’s cold dead hand. Alas.
Now we have to join Lily and the guilt weasels while also hiding that Hector clearly has an ulterior motive that Lily is in on. Hector does make nice to Lily but also chides her for giving Hunter the files since apparently the government wants them dead and if they knew what was under the dome they would definitely be killed (see, Hector is aware of how terrible Julia and Jim are! Wait… oh he probably means the aliens. Actually bring on the government kill squads! It sounds like a great idea!) The government apparently wants to “bury the evidence”! Lily thinks they should get the cure which would make them a hero.
Ok there’s a whole lot of unknowns being touched on here.
So the cure is injected in Junior who has a high fever –
and it seems to work with Junior and Jim having a big family moment about
starting over and rebuilding their relationship. Sounds like a fate worse than
death.
While Norrie goes to return the gun she took from the
Acteon guard who told her how terribad it is to kill. She’s struggling –
because she doesn’t feel guilty. She doesn’t feel anything.
Jim is so reassured he wants to remove the restraints but
Hector is more sensible. Alas, Jim has been spending too much time with Julia
and frees Junior, despite Junior saying it’s ok. Of course Junior is still an
evil pod-person. And now He has the super strength – how random is this?!)
Junior kill the guard Norrie confided in.
Jim has the gall to be snippy with Hector about this. But
it seems official that the cure doesn’t work Without a cure, Hector says they have
to kill everyone with the infection to save the world. Which includes Norrie
and Hunter Joe and Barbie
Jim agrees. And Lily overhears.
Christine and Sam consult on Joe’s work – though he’s
working Christine is worried about how long they have especially since her
health is still shaky. That work will also need their remaining amethyst as
well
Barbie is with Eva and her creepy pregnancies and goes to
Christine to ask her to hunt the Resistance. Christine decides it’s just not
important – he just needs to hang around Eva. He goes to see Joe and finds him
creepily enthusing about the crystals before Barbie tells him to stall – they
need to cure Kinshipness before bringing the Dome down or they just unleash
aliens on the world.
I don’t know whether to be relieved that Barbie points
this out or sad that it took this long for someone to say this. Anyway, Barbie’s
out to save Eva – well to try and see if Eva feels even slightly bad about the
girls sacrificing themselves. Barbie desperately tries to tap into an Eva who
has feelings beyond “yay kinship! Yay duty!”
Barbie isn’t so thrilled by this so Eva gets suspicious
and sets out a whole story about how she’s afraid they won’t be together as
perfect parents forever and when Barbie (oh so naive) takes the bait she
realises he’s no longer Kinship. But Barbie has drugged her tea… to stop her “hurting
my baby”
Meanwhile Christine goes to Joe to explain the original
plan – amethyst made pretty noises which unlocked the Dome. He wouldn’t it have
been a good idea to tell Joe this before he started working on opening the
Dome? Y’know rather than have him try and figure it out himself? Anyway, she
now gives him keys how to solve the puzzle (again, why do they need Joe?)
Anyway she decides a nature walk is in order, while
describing how the aliens hardly wanted to come to Earth and were forced to
(how this, in any way, is a counter to “you just want my submission” bemuses
me. Desperate pity grab to hide being a slave master?). She tells him,
ominously and vaguely, that a big enemy who is coming and plans to destroy
humanity.
Of course, Christine who recently faked the end of the
world, is totally trustworthy here.
Barbie takes Eva out and calls Julia – but Jim stops her
from telling him where they are still they don’t know whether Barbie is a
podperson or not (how very sensible! Of course, since Julia isn’t sensible, she
objects – but Jim wins). Damn it Julia, again, stop making me agree with Jim!
We have to mention that Barbie has completely given up on Eva – all he cares about now is the baby and he and Julia arrange to meet up. Julia tries to get Barbie to abandon the baby but of course he won’t because BABY (no-one cares about Eva).
Julia decides to play midwife while snarling at Barbie
that she’s helping deliver his baby by another woman (ok, yeah, that’s got to
be a bit bitter). Because, yes, Eva is conveniently giving birth even though
she’s really trying not to. Alas it seems the super strength she had against
Jim is now gone when she has a chance to break Julia’s neck like a fragile
twig. Snappy snappy.
They forcibly pin Eva down until the alien baby is born
and Barbie coos at the monstrous herald of humanity’s destruction. Absolutely
no-one kills it with fire. Hey how much breast milk is there Under the Dome?
But Sam has twigged onto Junior’s disappearance and
informs Christine that Barbie may no longer be team!alien! Finding Eva missing
it’s time for a search party. They arrive at the motel where Eva has given birth
As they leave, Eva begs to hold her daughter at least
once (also because of aforementioned lack of breast milk). The baby feeds and
Eva gets evil purple alien veins which are more than little ominous – and she
throws Barbie out of the window with her newly restored super strength.
Barbie still doesn’t want to go without his evil daughter despite more proof that she’s not human. But they have to leave before they are killed. And, again, they had a chance to stop the whole alien invasion by killing the baby with fire, but they didn’t take it.
Christine goes to Eva and the new Queen – who seems to be
draining energy from Eva. Christine takes the baby and Eva is de-pod-personed:
so Christine kills her with a pillow. Of course, because the writers have no
purpose for her now. Since this is Under
the Dome I expect a new WOC will be recently into… oh hi Lilly! I should
have seen it coming: T-Dog
Chain continues.
While they’re searching, Joe has Minion drill into the Amethyst
to split it into pieces. When did Joe learn about the cleavage of alien
crystals?
The baby – ok Barbie, the baby is an alien monster. Does
it even count as “yours”? And even if it did – drugging a pregnant lady for the
sake of the foetus inside her is beyond not ok. Especially in this setting
where said foetus is literally a threat to all humanity. This actually would be
one of the few times when drugging Eva and removing her from the Kinship FOR
HER OWN GOOD would actually be far more palatable. But no, suddenly Eva has no
value or worth as a person (if she did she would be competition to Julia!) – to
anyone – she is just a vessel for the baby. Tool to manipulate Barbie, source
of angst for Julia, now walking womb – Eva has only ever existed to be a
footnote in someone else’s story or a useful tool.
And once her usefulness is over – she’s dead. That is the
entire point of this Black woman on this show – love interest, tool and death. Her
purpose is served, she has no existence as a character in her own right.
This also continues Under
the Dome’s appalling record of killing POC. The
death count is ludicrous, and none got a fully fledged storyline.
Can we also address random extra drone #12453 deciding to
badmouth Junior, a senior member of the kinship (which apparently has ranks)
because he’s not there to do the work? That strikes me as rather blatantly out
of character for the drones and just shoe-horned in to force a story twist
Especially since the common drones not thinking is just
about the only possibly explanation for why Christine would need Joe to create
her Dome breaker
I’m not even going to discuss the whole “they’re coming”
threat of another season until someone accepts that Christine is a lying liar
who lies and how “they” hardly justified what the Kinship is doing
Julia, stop making me agree with Jim!
So. Much. Stupid. Everyone on this show is just so terrible
foolish. Every decision is bad. Every last decision. There isn’t one brain cell
among them.
