My gosh, this episode had some amazing visuals.
Obviously these totally fail to come across in crappy screenshots with the watermark on them, but hopefully you get the idea. The word I keep thinking of is PSYCHEDELIC! This episode was very psychedelic.
This was a mixed bag of a Final Space, because there was stunning art and interesting lore but it was all mixed together with a bunch of unfunny jokes surrounding Tribore, who I only really find tolerable in small doses.
The show also seems to be having trouble with balancing its larger cast now. Fox (or is it Foxx?) was introduced in 2×01 and yet we know nothing about him, he hasn’t really done anything, and he might as well not be there. I find that kinda odd, they must have a plan for him, right? But nowt, so far.
Final Space’s biggest strength continues to be its use of the found-family trope, aka my favourite trope ever especially when it’s in space. There’s never any doubt in my mind that Gary loves Mooncake and Little Cato and they love him. His relationship with the woman who used to be Quinn is a bit more complicated obviously, but I’m guessing they’ll be getting to that pretty soon…
I’m liking this new villain, as I tend to dig villains who are just plain ol’ Ultimate Unknowable Forces of Malice From Beyond the Universe, but also I miss the Lord Commander.