It’s season finale time – so time to put all these plot
lines to bed
First of all, Eve is meeting with the General from DOSA
and agrees to hand over the Library so long as the Libarians are spared
Naturally I assume this is a plot, especially when she
tells the others she’s working with DOSA – and then she arranges a fake mission
to get all the Librarians but Flynn out of the Library before having DOSA move
in. DOSA start taking artefacts but I’m giving Eve the benefit of the doubt
because she has a plan – she uses medusa’s head on Jenkins
EVE YOU ARE DEAD TO ME
Of course, as an immortal and made of awesome, Jenkins
would be a major obstacle for DOSA. They also tend to keep him as an artefact.
Jenkins has some stern words for Eve. And no sword is so
sharp as Jenkins’s scorn.
Flynn is running around the Library trying to keep
Artefacts out of DOSA hands and manages to get in touch with the other
Librarians who quickly figure out they’re being manipulated. He tells them to
infiltrate DOSA’s library and free Jenkins because he, as the last of the three
immortals, has the power to lock down the Library
They free Jenkins from his prison where he has been
craftily locked in a box sealed with 3 very stupid locks to fool the Librarians
who need to reverse and slow down their brains (or, actually, need to be so
arrogant as to assume that DOSA wouldn’t even try to outsmart them). Which is a
nice idea except if they really wanted to secure Jenkins they could have 3
password locks actually activated by… passwords? Real passwords? Actual secure,
16-random-digit-changed-every-month passwords? Passwords that you couldn’t
break because you solved the puzzle written on the ACTUAL BOX. Or a key?! Y’know
anything would be more secure than that. Who are these people on TV and in
games who lock things up with puzzles? “I want to keep my shit safe but if a really
clever person breaks in they deserve my stuff!”
Eve meanwhile starts to redeem my faith in her by asking
the General about Apep’s casket – which DOSA has. Eve asks if it’s safe. Really
safe? Really really? Just because it’s scientifically protected against all “known”
magic- that kind of relies on DOSA knowing all magic. I mean really? General
brings the Casket to show Eve who continues to pour doubt and talks about the
magical artefact that the Library would use to contain it. She leaves and the
General gets kind of doubtful… so she opens the Casket and is possessed by
Apep.
Something Eve realises when she’s thrown across the room
when the General and her minions bring a big bomb into the Library
The librarians free Jenkins and they find Eve – Jenkins nearly
strangles her since he is Not Amused before Eve quickly coughs out that she’s
actually wrong with Flynn and it’s all a double cross and despite all their
pledges of openness they completely kept it a secret from them (the excuse
being that the Librarians were Plan B should this plan fail). Still, it feels
shallow after we had a whole episode of everyone calling out Flynn for him
going it alone
The plan was to get Apep in the Library, with them
knowing DOSA had Apep, because the ultimate battle is happening here. What Eve
didn’t realise is that Flynn lied to her – and never told her the Eye of Ra he
intends to use to stop Apep demands a human sacrifice. Flynn intends to kill
himself
In the epic Library catacombs, General Apep sets off the
bomb, blowing a hole in the floor and setting all the dark magic loose when
Flynn comes to confront Apep. After much verbal jousting, and a tragic goodbye
and declaration of love to Eve, Flynn uses the eye, preparing to sacrifice himself
for the greater good
But that is not this show. As we already touched on in episode
6: this is not a show where we have to embrace the grim dark for the sake
of the greater good. The Librarians are brilliant and awesome and Eve is sure
they can and WILL find another way. I already said how much I love this, how
much the Librarians will not play to the eternal grimdark taking over all the
things
Eve turns to the Librarians and demands they do better – they’re
brilliant do it. This needs a human sacrifice – so they all run off to
implement plan b. Jake
has the “soul” tattoo on his arm, Ezekiel has “heart”, the love
potion from Cyndi and Cassandra
has her super enhanced mind magic: heart, soul and mind, a recipe for a
human. They pass that all to Apep and create human Apep. Why, a new human all
ready for sacrifice. Flynn is saved, Apep is not. (Personally I was all for
making the General a human sacrifice but this works too).
I really like this call back to the previous episodes
(both in theme and in object), making these episodes more pointful and
meaningful in the overall arc.
In the aftermath the Librarians did make a point of
saving the General. She points out she still has all their artefacts – but that
was kind of the point. Flynn and Eve wanted her to take them out of the Library
so they would be safe while they fought Apep. They’d like them back now –
unless the General can honestly say none of her people will open Pandora’s box,
touch the Hand of Midas etc etc. She insists they’re not idiots
They point out she just opened the sarcophagus of the
Egyptian god of chaos.
Ouch. I’d also like to point out that, with coal black
eyes, super strength throwing Eve across he room, an evil, echo-reverb voice
AND had a full on cackling evil laugh. Yet her soldiers, with a bomb, still followed
her. Seriously? Your people are so ignorant of the supernatural that you have
no training or concept of possession/shapshifters/dopplegangers/evil twins/brain
swapping etc etc etc. Really? This is supernatural threat 101?
In light of her department’s proven inability to handle
shit, she gives back the Artefacts. I do think it’s awfully simplistic – because
it’s sensible. And who is this sensible?
In the dénouement the Librarians agree not to use magic –
including their recent new abilities from the Monkey King and Cassanda –
because magic is a useful tool if treated with respect. It’s something to use
as a very very very last resort, not a common tool. I think that they need to
continue the conflict about whether or not to use magic in future seasons
because this definitely has not been addressed yet, not fully. At the same time
I can see why they did this because in the last couple of episodes Jake and
Cassandra have had a major power creep which needs restricting.
And Flynn has a moment with Eve. She doesn’t quite give
him permission to run off and do things on his own – but she does recognise
that he has been doing this a long time and that change is slow. Which kind of
nicely – if, perhaps, too neatly and easily addresses all of the seasons
ongoing conflicts. Which is fairly impressive given how many there were and how
few episodes there have been
