By Owen Quinn author
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This week we open in 2015 where after picking up a mysterious signal at her outpost a lone female, Doctor Barnes, tries to get through to the assistant director before we jump back to the present day where the death breath ice monster is hunting May, Shaw and the Randa siblings.
We leatn that Dr Barnes works for monarch and the signal she has picked up was previously found before the last emergence. The monsters are coming.,,again. G Day is almost upon us. Tim at this point is a troll in the basement largely ignored so how he came to be of such importance is another piece of the puzzle. But when he calls out the board for short sightedness they listen.
Last week I said Cate’s attitude was becoming boring and yet here she is the nice one. This episode centres on the relationship between May and Kentaro from their first meeting on his debut as an artist on the night his exhibition launches. Their anger at each other is just boring and given they are being hunted by a monster and forced to walk for miles in freezing temperatures, pointless, They risk death rather than work together? They split up. Kentaro going his own way as he believes he saw a structure from the sky as they were landing. It doesn’t make sense that they would go their separate ways and still come out alive from this wasteland. Kentaro has an Obi Wan ghost moment with his father before salvation arrives showing him his dad is indeed still alive. it’s all a bit out there but Shaw states that the presence of the Titans affects their surroundings in to all sorts of weird effects and phenomenon. May almost dies but I found it hard to care given how spiky she is attitude wise. It’s repetitive and adds nothing really to the story. Maybe it is part of the overall arc but we will see.
Why the monster hasn’t killed them is revealed as it follows heat and eats it. Shaw sets a trap to try and kill it but is serves as a distraction to escape. All four are reunited and Kentaro reveals what he has found Shaw gets a look at the portal in the ice and we know full well he knows what it is. Shaw’s computer is wrecked but when they land Tim greets them. They have been delivered to Monarch, the very people they are running from. Cate and Kentaro stare in horror given Tim tried to kidnap them in Tokyo.
Overall, an episode that is more a run around with little impact on the overall story. It felt like a serving of a platter of breadcrumbs with no taste and could do without the metaphysical oddness.
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