By: Alan Huynh
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Final Space 3×05
Okay that’s definitely my favourite of the season so far. Beautiful imagery, very little jarring comedy interruption, and QUINN BACKSTORY!
I came out of this episode both with a greater understanding of her and feeling so terribly bad for her, because her relationship with her sister didn’t exactly seem great and her relationship with her mother DEFINTELY did not. The concept of leaving a small child locked in a morgue to teach them responsibility is, uh, the opposite of good parenting and I wonder what Quinn’s relationship with her mother was like after that.
Avery’s death (or maybe ‘death’) looked a lot like John’s in a way, especially with the family member looking on unable to do anything about it.
Ash was fantastic this episode, but then again “grieving girl who has enough superpowers exploding out of her to destroy the world” is a favourite trope of mine. (See also: Wandavision.) I’m sure she’ll be back before too long.
Gary’s speech about death and memories at the end of this episode was really, really lovely. One of the best scenes in the whole show I think.
Final Space 3×04
Hooray an Ash-centric episode! Well sort of. Oh man I felt so sorry for her at the end of this one. She must feel like she’s lost a sibling all over again. Also man this whole series really likes taking Fox out of action, when will he get something to do?!
This season is going by so faaaast. I’m worried about Quinn, I know Olan Rogers is too smart to kill her off but I still worry about her. Awww the moments between her and Gary in this episode were so sweet, but they’re also the very brief calm before the storm I suspect.
I still find Biskit annoying, sorry. I don’t even see any reason for him to be around right now. And Tribore, UGH. He doesn’t fit into this darker new season AT ALL and I’d much rather he wasn’t there. He’s just so incredibly annoying and also oh yeah he let a load of people die and will never face consequences for it cos it was supposed to be a Funny Moment I guess? Sigh. I love this show but post season one it was never really great at balancing the comedy with the seriousness. Sometimes it really just feels like two different shows squashed together.
I want to go back to the Avacato-Little Cato plot asap please! Oh it’s going to be so heartrending when LC finds out the truth.
Final Space 3×03
So I knew ahead of time that this episode contained Baby Cato Even Littler Cato, but I did NOT expect the twist regarding his backstory and oh no. Oh no.
Wait was this episode called The Ventrexian as a deliberate nod to The Mandalorian? Killing machine suddenly finding himself having to protect an adorable, helpless child… It fits I guess.
So yeah! Avocato killed LC’s biological parents before deciding to raise the baby as his own and this has BIG RAMIFICATIONS! Little Cato is inevitably going to find out and oh god. I suspect Fox will be involved in that part of the plot too since it’s his people Ventrexia were at war with. (And frankly it’s long past time he got something to do.) And what became of the other son Avacato talks about in the past tense? Is he dead? I think we’re supposed to believe that’s the case… or is he still out there somewhere?
As you can probably tell I was very invested in this so it’s a bit disappointing to me that the rest of the plot seemed kinda meh, I didn’t dislike the Gary and Quinn bits but oh look Biskit is there and I just find him super annoying, I’m sorry. Can we replace him with the sentient cookie machine?
Gosh I’m looking so forward to learning where this all ends up!
Final Space 3×02
This was supposed to be a lighthearted episode, if I remember rightly, but it opened up a lot of big questions nonetheless. The Lord Commander is back (noice), Avacato probably still has Invictus within him and now Bolo has a super cool space sword.
Biskit debuted in this episode and everyone was looking so forward to him but I don’t find him all that cute or engaging, sorry! Maybe he’ll get better as we go along? I mean, he is a cat, that’s always a plus.
I’m really glad Nightfall is still part of the story and still being mentioned, she’s kinda completely a separate entity from Quinn at this point which is terribly confusing but I hope it leads to some good Quinn moments later. What I really want is for Quinn and Ash to have a conversation about her, though that probably should have happened back in episode 1 to be honest.
I’m really going to miss HUE in his robot form. His design was so adorable. Awww. :(
