Final Space 2×08
WHAT AN EPISODE! So I guess we’re in the stretch that everything was building towards now. There’s a big ol’ loop of time travel closing up. Mooncake knew Gary because he already met him. It was the crew which accidentally killed Melanie Dewinter. (Who must have been a pretty shitty person, it turns out, seeing as she was working for the Lord Commander.) Avacato always knew the Lord Commander would murder him. And so on and so forth.
From reading other people’s reactions to this episode, it appears to have reminded a lot of people of Avengers: Endgame, and it does indeed have the same kind of confusing time travel shenanigans. I think I follow it all but I’m not entirely sure.
Is it safe to state that Gary Goodspeed is very quickly advancing his way up my personal list of favourite fictional characters ever? He was wonderful in this episode. Wrenching Little Cato out of the way and taking his place was a true Hero Moment and I loved it.
If only he hadn’t been monologuing at the wrong moment he might have saved the whole world, even! But I don’t think time itself (here represented in the form of a slightly Jar Jar Binks-looking dog-type alien dude) would have allowed that. It looks like time always snaps back into place, with one notable exception…
(here’s that big spoiler Olan warned everyone about!)
…Avocato is back! And I admit, I have mixed feelings about it. Avocato’s death in 1×06 was huge. It changed the whole course and the whole tone of the show. Suddenly, there were proper stakes. Gah, I’ll say it, bringing him back feels like a copout, especially since there was an episode just a few weeks ago about Little Cato letting go of his grief. I don’t doubt something interesting will happen with him, especially since he’s lost all his memories and y’know there’s still that whole “genocidal war criminal” thing to deal with, but… I think he should have stayed dead. Sorry, Avocato.
Anyway. This continues to be very probably my favourite show airing right now and I live in fear it’ll be cancelled before any the beautiful twisty-turny story is fully worked out.