Jeez, I felt like what happened in 50 minutes could have been covered in ten.
The actual content of the show was minimal with much of the episode being pure exposition.
OK, let's see...
Gaal's insipid generic backstory is revisited... filled with minute trivia... (Gail?)
NOTHING new is added. We already knew why she was here from the first episode which introduced her perfectly well.
Literally twenty minutes of dull parents vs child: loving, understanding mother, angry 2D father. Let's not forget the old religion v science trope, (Heck, I'm an atheist and even I found that the religion is dumb science is great allusion dull)...
global warming... green is good... floods... waterproof ink on paper.
Gaal (now even called Gail by her compatriots - the Trantor Seer having correctly called her Gaal in a previous episode - is now on a conveniently deserted spaceship after her capsule docks... with a bloody knife and bloody hands... Oh, and as she watches more expositional video finding out she is wanted for murder as well...
Then we get a teeny tiny bit of Terminus story continued from last ep.. but only about 3 minutes of actual content.
Hidden gun is obvious, captured alpha woman escapes...
Incompetent white man is over confident in the Empire, despite having been exiled by them to Terminus.
Alpha ethnic women take the stage.. One alpha woman conveniently pulls super powerful emp bomb out of eye. Bang. All of city loses 100% of defence instantly.
White man didn't listen to woman so now man dies.
White man didn't listen to black kid so gets stabbed.. and dies.
Meanwhile... An imperial ship spends twenty minutes approaching the planet... Sent by Empire... Loads of set up and a long winded CGI of the majestic ship warping and arriving... Emotional speech is made by captain of said ship to troops...
Of course conveniently hidden gun about the size of a snooker table, that was set up in the previous episode fires literally a single shot. Massive Military Empire Ship sent by the Emperor all the way from Trantor is instantly destroyed by tiny single-shot weapon.
Gaal back on a spaceship showing that somehow, despite never having had access to a telescope or astronomy class is somehow also fluent at astrophysics and determines the location of a single star by guesstimating the angular displacements of all the quasars in the universe relative to her current location.
I could go on but I already forgot the rest of this generic tale while writing this review and don't feel the need to watch it again.
So much exposition, so little actual action:
TL:DR.
Science good, religion bad.
Green is good.
Women are smart. Men not so much.
Empire is stupid rebels are smart.
Gaal is a goddess... women smart, right?
Salvor is a goddess... women smart, right?
The actual content of the show was minimal with much of the episode being pure exposition.
OK, let's see...
Gaal's insipid generic backstory is revisited... filled with minute trivia... (Gail?)
NOTHING new is added. We already knew why she was here from the first episode which introduced her perfectly well.
Literally twenty minutes of dull parents vs child: loving, understanding mother, angry 2D father. Let's not forget the old religion v science trope, (Heck, I'm an atheist and even I found that the religion is dumb science is great allusion dull)...
global warming... green is good... floods... waterproof ink on paper.
Gaal (now even called Gail by her compatriots - the Trantor Seer having correctly called her Gaal in a previous episode - is now on a conveniently deserted spaceship after her capsule docks... with a bloody knife and bloody hands... Oh, and as she watches more expositional video finding out she is wanted for murder as well...
Then we get a teeny tiny bit of Terminus story continued from last ep.. but only about 3 minutes of actual content.
Hidden gun is obvious, captured alpha woman escapes...
Incompetent white man is over confident in the Empire, despite having been exiled by them to Terminus.
Alpha ethnic women take the stage.. One alpha woman conveniently pulls super powerful emp bomb out of eye. Bang. All of city loses 100% of defence instantly.
White man didn't listen to woman so now man dies.
White man didn't listen to black kid so gets stabbed.. and dies.
Meanwhile... An imperial ship spends twenty minutes approaching the planet... Sent by Empire... Loads of set up and a long winded CGI of the majestic ship warping and arriving... Emotional speech is made by captain of said ship to troops...
Of course conveniently hidden gun about the size of a snooker table, that was set up in the previous episode fires literally a single shot. Massive Military Empire Ship sent by the Emperor all the way from Trantor is instantly destroyed by tiny single-shot weapon.
Gaal back on a spaceship showing that somehow, despite never having had access to a telescope or astronomy class is somehow also fluent at astrophysics and determines the location of a single star by guesstimating the angular displacements of all the quasars in the universe relative to her current location.
I could go on but I already forgot the rest of this generic tale while writing this review and don't feel the need to watch it again.
So much exposition, so little actual action:
TL:DR.
Science good, religion bad.
Green is good.
Women are smart. Men not so much.
Empire is stupid rebels are smart.
Gaal is a goddess... women smart, right?
Salvor is a goddess... women smart, right?