Chloe is dead
No, really, actually dead. Yes, I expected her to
miraculously recover as well
So I’m going to begin with a lament to Chloe – a character who deserved so much better. A secret agent with all the skills and knowledge that implied, who was reduced to a love interest. A leader whose leadership was co-opted. A decision maker who never ever made a good choice. A strategist whose decision making was beyond appalling
My gods this character deserved better. She had so much potential and realised none of it. And now she’s dead because she has absolutely no purpose except for angst for poor poor Jackson.
So introducing a new character – Allison, super-rich
deputy Secretary of Defence who owns an orchard which is dying and adding
agricultural collapse and starvation to the panic the end of the world is
happening. Remember, most people are not eating meat now – so losing orchards
full of fruit is terribad awful. She’s the one who donated the plane, because
she has awesome planes she just has lying around. Oh she’s also Mitch’s
step-mother who (you will be shocked to hear!) Mitch has issues with. He spends
all his time snarling and sniping at her. He spends all his time snarling and
sniping at everyone. Everyone. It’s beyond tiresome now. Someone needs to slap
him. Speaking of things that need slapping – everyone’s putting Dariela in the
dog house now for not leaving the door open and dying next to Chloe.
She’s also Myka from Warehouse 13 (who would be so awesome) and I’m sad that she’s reduced to this shit. She (and Abe) are better than this.
Anyway, the trees are dying and food under threat – so what
is causing this?
Snakes
And here we see the very essence of why Zoo’s writings are terrible. These snakes are dangerous because they’re shedding poison glass skin (yes really) and they’re crawling down people’s throats to kill them…
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Why?
They’re SNAKES! You don’t need to create weird shed-skin
poison. They’re snakes. They HAVE poison! You want them to be more poisonous? Make
them more poisonous! Have them spit in the water supply! Don’t make them crawl
down someone’s throat – have them bite people. They’re snakes, they have
poisonous bites and don’t have to play with our stomach acid to kill people
with it.
Anyway, Mitch makes a cure while sniping at the Chloe
replacement (rich woman with the resources being a sort of leader? My my we
have a female T-Dog Chain!)
He having done that this means the gang can now go to
Caraquet and finally rescue Jaime
And just in time because Jaime and Logan (who are now besties) have found Caraquet which is a) burning and b) full of people who think feeding people to polar bears once a month will stop them eating the whole town. Which probably isn’t breeding at the rate of 2 people a month – so it’s less “save the town” and more “destroy it slowly”.
The town decides to feed Jaime to the bears after knowing
her for an hour (c’mon, it took me at least 3 episodes before wanting to feed
her to bears) and she responds by blowing up the fence and feeding the whole
town to bears! And making sure the leader of the town definitely becomes bear
chow. This is outright murder but hey
In other news, Jackson has finally told everyone about
his plagued DNA and Mitch has some pseudo-science which is how he plans to
develop the cure. Dariela is also to be relied upon to kill Jackson if
necessary – because she who kills things now seems to be her role.
