So everything is
super bad and D’avin recounts all this to Dutch while trying to give it a
positive spin. There is no real spin here
But can I say this
episode seems to have an awful lot of recapping in this episode which I don’t
think it actually all that useful or necessary? Most of what is being recapped
happened last episode and we don’t need this much fill in the blanks.
Delle Sayah is giving
birth. And she is awesome. Her snark at D’avin, the father, at Zeph who is
being the attending doctor is all priceless. I especially like her reading a
magazine, totally phoning in lamaze breathing, examining Zeph’s nails and
asking “is it out yet” while being unwilling to push. She’s Qreshi.
She also demands hard
drugs or hard booze, bar keep. She and Pree has some nice exchanges with him
passive aggressively offering her ice chips and reminding her that she’s
actually an enemy and she knocks him out with his bowl of ice
Honestly Delle Sayah
never ceases to be made of awesome. And these two have to be enemies or the
world would end.
The problem is that
we have Hullen baby issues. The Hullen baby is growing super fast and can’t be
born vaginally because it’s too big. Unfortunately a C-section isn’t possible
because of Delle Saya’s ultra healing powers close any incision before they can
get the baby out. This is a problem and their one solution - to use D’avin’s
anti-Hullen powers seems likely to kill her and the baby.
Meanwhile Johnny is
now doing well. Reunion with Dutch doesn’t go well as Johnny is going through
all the pain, trying to bang his head on a wall and generally falling apart. He
can barely look at Dutch and she is determined to save him so heads to the
planet with the nearest source of goo which derails everyone else’s plan to try
and get to the Armada - which is somewhere.
Except the goo there
has also turned to crystal. In fact all the goo everywhere in the Quad has
turned to crystal - that means there’s no goo to complete Johnny’s turn to
Hullen or to cleanse the goo from him. There’s also no goo to help Delle Sayah
with her giving birth. Which is all unfortunate
In particular this is
bad for Johnny because he is half-human and half-Hullen. That means He is
alternating between caring for and loving his friends and family and then not
giving a shit and then caring again. He’s constantly losing them, getting them
back and then losing them again - and Johnny adamantly refuses to live like
that. Being pure human or pure Hullen would be tolerable but not this
And he breaks his own
neck. Which is worrisome. They call Zeph and she looks at healing him and
realises neck breaking may be the answer! If the Hullen parasite isn’t
connected to the Hullen body is dies quickly - more quickly than the actual
human body. So they de-Hullen Johnny by stabbing him in the neck and then using
sci-fi technology to heal that stabbed spinal chord. Yay, Johnny is stabbed to
health!
This also means they can use spinal stabbing to help Delle Sayah not heal the c-section. Of course the consequences of that is that Delle Sayah is no longer Hullen which she’s not a fan of. But the choice is being de-hullenised or die from exploding baby. When the baby is born Delle Sayah feels everything again… and isn’t thrilled about it
I liked Hullen Delle
Sayah… but I think human Delle Sayah will still have a whole lot of snark under
her belt.
Johnny is wrestling
with guilt over the fact he did terrible things while Hullenised which Dutch
addresses - and I like it because the bond between these two is amazing. But
she’s also eager to move on to issues from the green… it just… it feels like
Dutch kind of fast-forwarded past Johnny’s feelings here as she had other
shit to deal with.
So in the green Dutch
was told a story by Khlyen about Johnny and Dutch’s early days and this
intrigues The Lady. The Lady catches up with Dutch disguised as Aneela and
Khlyen which doesn’t trick Dutch for long as she’s not that stupid. She’s also
utterly powerless in the face of the Lady who can use all her memories and previous
emotions she’s ever felt as weapons against her which is ultra ultra ultra
horrific. The Lady reveals she’s older and far mighter than Hullen and Hullen
are just toys and tools to her. She wants out of the Green and is convinced
Dutch - and the story Khlyen told is the key to that. Somehow
Important knowledge
must always be cryptic
Dutch is saved by
Aneela who also manages to pull out some really nice connections with Dutch -
she didn’t create Dutch for her to sacrifice herself and it’s about time Dutch
stopped trying to be everyone else’s saviour
And lo Dutch returned
to reality with Aneela desperately fighting the Lady and Dutch having an
ominous image if the future in which Johnny kills everyone and doesn’t remember
his own name. This is a bad plan
While Delle Sayah
insists that they absolutely must must must must get Aneela back as she’s the
only one who can protect her new weird alien baby: who the Lady is after.
I feel there’s also
issues with Dutch and D’avin that are going to need resolving in the next few
episodes. After all recently they were moderately in the “will they” of the
Will-they-won’t-they-two-opposite-sex-people-are-in-the-same-universe of
TVlandia and now D’avin has a Hullen alien monster baby and Dutch just slapped
D’avin for Hullenising Johnny while he growled at her for abandoning her and
then judging him for the decisions he had to make to survive. So this will need
poking
Also more and more
people are calling Dutch Yaleena and I’m beginning to think I should
