OMG, this finale was everything I’ve ever wanted. And nobody died! This is how you write a TV show.
We started with a group hug before the final showdown, aww.
Dutch used Khlyen as bait to lure the Lady to his cube on Arkyn while the rest went after her body on the Armada and Delle Seyah and Aneela procured Qreshi missiles via Aneela’s shear hullen power.
The Lady opened the cube and wanted to clone Jaq because he was too unique and precious to risk damaging him.
But when she went to Arkyn, he freed himself (he has some tricks in his sleeve), and then saved D’avin’s life – because that’s why he had sent the Lady the signal to discover him: he had had a vision of D’avin dying and had to come save him. Aww.
Jaq was also shot, but not fatally, since he heals although not as quicks as Aneela – but it got Aneela come to the Armada in all her fury and together they found the lady’s nasty spider/octopus body and killed it.
Meanwhile, Zeph found the Lady’s stash of experimental patients, one of them being Pippin, who’s alive, himself, and his spider has shrunk, so they got their happy ending.
The Lady made Dutch and Khlyen fight to the death, but Khlyen reminded Dutch of his 10th birthday gift to her – a knife she was always supposed to have hidden on herself – and wanted to kill him before he would be made to kill her.
Fortunately, her stabbing him coincided with the others killing the Lady’s real body, so she didn’t actually have to kill him.
Alas, the Lady dispatched who-knows-how-many ships with the hatchings across the J before her demise, so they now have to hunt them down.
Dutch was trying to convince the Lady – whom she didn’t kill, either, because she’s now a human trapped in a human body and kept in Khlyen’s cube on Arkyn – to give her info on them under pain of death, but she also brought her a doll in one of Khlyen’s red boxes. Aww.
Poetic cycling back to the past all around. I liked it.
Delle Seyah named Pree the governor of Westerly and Aneela will give the refugees land on Leith until they can rebuild.
Also, Aneela would have Delle Seyah rule with her as human, but she offered to share the green with her and to see if there is enough to make her hullen again, which is what Delle Seyah chose and I guess it worked.
My only complaint: barely a glimpse of Fancy.
Johnny prepared to leave and Dutch told Lucy to take care of him and bring him home safe in a year (there was even a nice reference to him maybe finding Clara, yay.)
She also told D’avin she loved him, too.
But first, the three undertook one last task together to kill a few hatchings – and it was the most perfect ending of perfect endings. TAF FTW!
So, that’s it.
What a ride it was!
Oof course there have been things I’d like to see (more of) and the show wasn’t without glitches (you know I had some complaints, one in particularly, but it was subjective), but overall it was really, really good and very-well-written, and I can say for myself one of the best TV shows I’ve watched in these five years – if not the best, since unlike some others with comparable writing it wasn’t cancelled.
I am so glad I’ve watched it. I forgot who I have to thank for bringing it to my attention, but thank you!
This Dutch/Johnny angst is killing me. But I love that they brought back the 'gravity' line and actually showed us how Dutch used her connection to Johnny to give herself strength.
