episode four skeleton team It was a little weird if I’m honest. After finding the map in Eighteen last week’s episodeThe crew finds themselves on a planet, believing it to be their home, but instead discover a completely different, yet extremely similar planet. But the episode, directed by everything, everywhere, all together Director Daniels makes a serious mistake in separating Jod from the children for most of the episode and introducing a new subplot to the episode.
The episode begins in the middle of the action, with the crew coming out of hyperspace and what they think is the Eighteen. But despite appearing identical to its home planet, it is overrun with creatures, abandoned buildings, and wandering tribes. Believing it to be home, the kids split up from Zod and SM-33 and go exploring, but are captured by one of the tribe. They insist that the four children should lead them in their next battle, because, reason? I’m not sure why they want four inexperienced youngsters leading them. Neil is the only one who thinks it’s stupid and openly yearns for the peace of his home world, spending his time with one of the other child soldiers named Hana, who also embraces the concept of not fighting. Does not understand but appreciates Neil’s “weakness”. “As a mercy.
Meanwhile, Joad and 33 are taken by another tribe, only we don’t get to see any of their interactions with their captors. The whole conversation with the tribes seemed absolutely pointless, not gonna lie, despite it all being in service of Neal and Fern’s arcs, the former learning to be brave for his friends, the latter realizing that a The consequences of being a pirate captain can be costly. But I think that having the kids separated from Jod so soon after they were introduced derailed the show’s momentum and liveliness, resulting in a very rushed and rushed episode that felt like it had scenes in it. Are missing. The short running time of these episodes didn’t help episode four either, as we had to cram a lot into such a short amount of time. I feel like the crew should have found their way to the tower organically, without tribal conflict, and questioned the state of the planet on their own terms, and Neil, on the contrary, should have faced his fears by facing the unknown. Should have learned to do it. To square off with the warring tribes.
This was improved at the end, when he said goodbye to the tribe and headed towards the observer’s tower. It was here that he discovered that there was a series of other “At” planets (this one being in Acharn) whose coordinates were conveniently carved into pillars of rock; Everyone except Atene, of course. The reason for this is revealed to be that SM-33, on the instructions of its former captain, destroyed the coordinates to keep the apparent treasure safe the last time he was here. 33 is then ordered to forget everything about the planet, resulting in his constant comments about never having heard of the planet (and thus the name of the episode). Fern, realizing that he had been instructed to say this, asked him to use his authority as Captain to overrule the order, which worked. In turn, his “kill everyone around you” mode (from limb to limb!) is triggered in a very intense sequence, with the camera tied to the puppet, with only Jodd on his back as a failsafe. Triggered the button.
There are many questions in this episode, such as when was SM-33 last here, who was its captain, and why is there a series of duplicate planets in this system, and thankfully those questions save the episode and the overall mystery. Let’s move forward. Coupled with the time spent with Neil and the episode wasn’t bad. But it felt like it was a meandering affair that lost its Amblin-inspired charm and was my least favorite of the season to date.
