This episode felt like a lot of filler since most of it
was padded by rather unnecessary fighty sequences with very little actual
reasoning behind this
Oh my gods, did I actually expect reasoning in Zoo? You’d think I would have given up
on that
Anyway the group splits into two. Alison and Mitch and
Jaime are going to convince the Russians that spraying poison gas around the
world is a bad plan while Abe and Dariela are focused on finding Jackson and
his dad Robert even though Alison is kind of confused as to why they want the
rage mutant when they have the much more peaceful elderly Finnish lady.
So Allison and co seem to be doing well in convincing the
Russians – and then a gorilla arrives and they spend the rest of the episode struggling
to kill it. The gorilla has been dropped in by Davies in his insidious plan to
get the Russians back on side by causing some deaths and doubling down on
hatred for animals. While Jaimie and Mitch manage to kill the gorilla (and have
more relationship nonsense which really can wait until AFTER the world ends),
Davies has succeeded
My take away from this? How, in the name of all that is
sensible, did Davies manager to smuggle a GORILLA into the Russian government? This
happened just because the Russian government had a vote – yet the first they
knew of a Gorilla is when it appeared in the middle of them… How was this
achieved? How would that be achieved today, let alone in a world where the
entire world is, presumably, on guard against animal attacks.
I’d believe angry wasps, bees, rats before a not-very-subtle
gorilla
The end is the Russians are now pro massacre and,
seemingly more important to these characters, Alison decides to leave the group
to let Mitch focus on his relationship with Mitch but not before saying how
doomed their relationship is.
Uh-huh because them not living happily ever after is really relevant here.
Meanwhile Abe and Dariela’s searching for Jackson and Robert
Oz is solved by Jackson coming back to them, forgiving all and frothing a lot
with mutant rage. This allows Richard to gain everyone’s trust by randomly
pulling some mutant treatment out of a badger (yeah don’t even try to pretend
this is weird in Zoo) and saving
Dariela’s pregnancy from complications. They move on to build and EMP bomb to
stop Davies shooting them down with fighter jets which feel the need to almost
ram their plane out of the sky rather than use, y’know, ranged weapons. I’m
sure fighter jets generally come with ranged weapons. Lances are not the
usually weapon of choice.
Duly forgiven of all his terribad evil, Robert is now on team
good guy (even if he does give the secret of the gas to Davies, betting they
can come up with a cure before the gas kills all the things. He also gets
chance to exposition on why he was super evil while bonding with his son
See, he infected his wife and son with evil mutant genes so that the evil mutant animals wouldn’t kill them. Yes, this scientist infected his loved ones with evil mutant genes he KNEW made animals dangerous and not knowing if humans would even survive the process
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SCIENCE! |
Thankfully he also knows where Pangea with the Victorian immortal
sabre toothed cats are.
Dariela and Abe are also planning happy families and
while I love how Dariela absolutely cannot accept Abe of all people losing his
hope and positivity when she needs it the most, I also really think the
relationship soap opera storylines are as unwanted as a microphone at a Trump
speech.
