Final Space 2×09
So I and the rest of Final Space Fandom were informed in advance that this episode would be the darkest, most depressing episode the show has ever done, but halfway through I was going “This is creepy as hell, but depressing? Nah.” Then the ending came. NOW it’s depressing.
But gaaah, all the good stuff keeps being interrupted by Tribore! I am SO SICK of Tribore, sorry Tribore fans, if you’re out there. The bit about him being able to switch genders is interesting (should I really be saying ‘they’ rather than ‘he’?) but since it was then played essentially for laughs I stopped being interested. There’s so much more you could DO with that rather than what they did. I appreciate that no sort of -phobia seems to exist in the world of Final Space (Shannon appears not to care what gender Tribore is, only that they’re not attracted to her) but everything else about Tribore is just so meh. Get rid of him and have more of H.U.E. tasering people upside the head for being rude to Nightfall. Actually more H.U.E. in general please.
(Big spoilers from here on.) Annnnd now Invictus is loose, Quinn is trapped in what we now know is essentially Hell, and Avacato’s status is… unknown. I loved that Little Cato having two father figures whom he loves equal amounts now came into play. But oh god, the poor dude. He has literally not had a single good thing happen to him in, well, very possibly ever. Now Dad 1 is gone again and Dad 2 is in a medical bay with what looked like at least one lung shot out.
This show continues to have some of the most chilling monster designs I’ve ever seen:
And also, the voice acting in this episode was stellar. Not only did it suddenly throw into sharp relief for me just how good the main cast are (Tika Sumpter sounds completely different as Quinn and Nightfall and seeing Quinn again reminded me how much) but the villain voices for this episode made me shudder. I don’t know how played Phil, who I suspect is actually Invictus, but their voice! Their horrible creepy skin-crawling voice! It was great. And the same thing again in the scene where Gary is possessed.
This show is amazing and it’s only just gotten started.