Final Space 2×07
After last week’s mind-bending episode we get a heart-rending one. There aren’t even that many jokes in this episode, which is unusual for Final Space. Instead, Nightfall tries to bring back “her” Gary and realises she can’t. Turns out the universe doesn’t work that way. This all raises the question of how much do our experiences shape our identity, really? Nightfall’s Gary isn’t really “our” Gary, he seems very different, and when it comes down to it Nightfall isn’t Quinn, either, she just looks like her and has some similar (but only similar) memories.
Usually alternate universes bug the heck out of me in most fiction, but in Final Space I don’t mind them.
This episode’s B plot involves a bunch of cloned KVNs turning on Clarence, which actually served to make me like Clarence, disgusting little animal that he is, a bit more. I don’t want or expect him to have much character development because he works so well as what he is, just a gross and greedy weirdo. But a funny one! He seems to have more space to be amusing now that Tribore is out of the way.
Hey, Fox got something to do this episode! I hope they develop his frienemyship with Little Cato. LC was the secret star of this episode I reckon. I especially appreciate his willingness to straight up murder the original KVN. All these characters have been there.
This episode ends with Gary and Nightfall staring sadly out of a window as a bunch of mangled KVNs float majestically by them. That scene seems to sum up Final Space pretty dang well.