OMG, what a mind-fuckery was this?! But well worth it.
So, the rescued kids were carrying a virus, infecting everyone they came in contact with. Qresh eould be happy to wipe the entire Westerly from the existence to stop it from spreading, but Turin managed to convince them to hold off until Zeph found the cure. Alas, when cured, people lost their memories. Courtesy of the Lady, because memory is how she controls people.
(And, apparently, memory and imagination are something the Lady’s race don’t possess, hence her obsession and stealing.)
Meanwhile, Aneela took D’avin and Johnny into the green – but D’avin left the spores-weapon with Turin as insurance.
The plan was for D’avin to incapacitate the Lady long enough that they all got out and then destroyed the green with the Lady in it.
It didn’t quite work out, with the Lady making Aneela offers of having her family back – and I would have been so pissed if Aneela had fallen for it and betrayed them, but she didn’t.
Instead she stalled the Lady by faking accepting her offer to give Dutch the opportunity to get the spores from Yalena again – because the green is a universal hold of all memory so inside it you can recreate any memory – and I loved how it worked into Dutch being Aneela’s family, OMG.
So, Dutch destroyed the green from within.
But unfortunately, the Lady overpowered Aneela and assumed her image, tricking the trio and getting out of the green before it died.
And then everyone woke up in a weird alternative world where they are ‘owned’ by the Lady (as per her own words), Johnny and Dutch are married (LOL) and apparently have a kid (?), they don’t know D’avin, Turin is a beggar (?), and Gared fights with Johnny in (illegal, I assume) fights. I think.
Fascinating.
Anyway, I guess the next season our heroes will figure out there is something majorly wrong with their alt-lives and find a way to get out of the Lady’s clutches.
And I really hope Aneela is alive and didn’t die with the green. Maybe since the Lady got out and as it appears now controls everyone’s memories, like herself being a kind of universal memory, Aneela is somewhere there, too, and can be brought back as well.
(Who’d think a season ago, I’d grow so attached to Aneela.)
Or maybe Aneela will be the one to save them or at least start the process – it could be a nice way to fully redeem her (they began this season, but for a lot of people, like Pree and Turin, she would have to do a lot more to get there, I guess.)
Anyway, looking forward to the great finish. Although this is going to be a loooong wait for the next year.
Zeph found the spider from the green melded with Pippin’s brain she can’t get it out without killing Pippin, but she fried its connection to Pippin via sonic frequency, so it can’t control him, at least. Alas, the spiders don’t survive long outside the green, so Pip is going to die soon anyway. :( (Maybe she’ll figure something out at the last moment.)
Delle Seyah gave her kid a name, finally, Ozzman after her father, and Kin Rit, which was Annela’s family name. Then she left for Qresh to take over the ruling – or so she told the team, but went somewhere else (to look for Aneela, I assume.)
The kid has some ‘supernatural’ senses, as he just ‘knows’ certain things.
Dutch and Johnny visited a memory-retrieval .bloke to find the ‘she’ assassin from Khlyen’s story, which in turn brought an assassin after them to protect his ‘colleague’ – Dutch surmised that both of them work for the Lady.
(Also, I saw someone speculate the female assassin might be Aneela’s/Dutch’s mom – and OMG, yes, please?)
Auntie Dutch was also tasked with teaching D’avin’s kid self-defence, which was nice and fun, but then she was going to teach him less savoury things when she proceeded to interrogate the male assassin, but D’avin put a stop to it, calling Khlyen’s parenting methods a spade for what they were: abuse.
Well fucking done, show! I love that they remember these things, that even though they flipped the story and Khylen turned out to be on the right side and for all his intentions were good, what he did to Dutch was still wrong and no kid should go through that.
And D’avin was a perfect person for spelling it out. This is going to be my second favourite moment of the show after Sabine’s episode.
And I love how they write the relationship between D’avin and Dutch, where even though he loves her and respects her, he isn’t afraid to tell her how it is.
And Dutch’s reaction, defending Khlyen for doing what he ‘had to do’, and being hurt by D’avin calling it abuse was perfect, so very real-life like.
This show. See, that’s why I like it.
Sure, this season has been a bit whacky (well, all of them were)/different (?) and the show overall isn’t without its issues, but in comparison to other shows, it’s still one of the best ones I’ve ever watched, especially with jewels like that.
(Although, the fandom seems to be getting smaller and smaller/near extinct this season. (Apparently it’s also hard to watch legally even in the US. WTF.) I might have to start giffing it myself again.)
Anyway, D’avin also looks quite good at being a dad, he’s had nice bonding moments with junior, who at the end, as per his earlier advice, chose his own name, Jaqobis, Jaq for short. And then they left, we shall see where to.
And we also got Pree and Fancy trying to find Gared and the kids and setting up a trap for the Hullen hunters with the intention for Pree to be caught and taken, so Fancy could find via out a hidden camera where they took everyone – which was the RAC, as we already knew, I think.
