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shallownessKilljoys 1.4 Vessel
This had a nifty enough A-plot/warrant that sketched out how the three main characters could work as a team more. It also expanded our understanding of them as individuals a little, not to mention the world, in the nine who run the RAC and the quad, some more about Kresh and Leith, religion, and now one of the nine is very interested in Dutch.
It started off with D’avin’s first collar as a Killjoy, where his inexperience showed. Then Dutch was specifically asked for to find a missing surrogate mother, carrying the last surviving member of one of the nine families. Discretion was demanded (heh.) Dutch was told not to trust anyone (but she kind of did trust the sisters, which didn’t always work so well.) Our trio totally led the baddies to the hidden fortress, which wasn’t great tradecraft, but there, their expectations were nicely subverted.
Those vessels were hardcore! I very much liked that they were farmers’ daughters and would fight for each other. Johnny bonded with one who could have been an engineer, D’avin bonded with the rest, kind of treating them like subordinates in his squad. And Dutch tried not to judge them, mainly interacting with Constance, the heavily pregnant warrant. By the end, she’d accepted that Constance was making her choices for herself and as loyal to her sisterhood as they‘d been to her.
Dutch also let slip to D’avin that she’d grown up somewhere like this, the upper crust client picked up on her having had some high-born education. Dutch insisted on carrying through the original mission, however much it was no longer politically expedient (if it ever had been.)
Johnny made D’avin talk to him about his objective in returning to Westerley and the doctor he was looking for. He got D’avin to agree to their looking for her together, because they were family, unilaterally including Dutch in that. Therefore, according to Johnny logic, that made Dutch off-limits to D’avin (and himself?) He said he’d seen how D’avin looked at her. I found this irksome, partly because I’m in a ‘could ship Dutch/D’avin’ space, as he’s generally respectful of her awesomeness, but particularly because this episode was all about female agency even if you were part of a structure that only valued you as a walking womb/source of funding for your family. So, it didn’t matter how D’avin ‘looked at Dutch’, it was what she made of it, and Dutch can totally handle herself! I have some sympathy for Johnny thinking that romance/sex could put untenable pressure on the burgeoning team, but shut up, dude. And then D’avin was saying nice things about how Dutch had turned out despite her upbringing (even if he didn’t know that she wasn’t trained to be a surrogate as much as be an assassin, bless.) So, whatever D’avin said to his brother, he wasn’t really changing his behaviour towards Dutch.
This had a nifty enough A-plot/warrant that sketched out how the three main characters could work as a team more. It also expanded our understanding of them as individuals a little, not to mention the world, in the nine who run the RAC and the quad, some more about Kresh and Leith, religion, and now one of the nine is very interested in Dutch.
It started off with D’avin’s first collar as a Killjoy, where his inexperience showed. Then Dutch was specifically asked for to find a missing surrogate mother, carrying the last surviving member of one of the nine families. Discretion was demanded (heh.) Dutch was told not to trust anyone (but she kind of did trust the sisters, which didn’t always work so well.) Our trio totally led the baddies to the hidden fortress, which wasn’t great tradecraft, but there, their expectations were nicely subverted.
Those vessels were hardcore! I very much liked that they were farmers’ daughters and would fight for each other. Johnny bonded with one who could have been an engineer, D’avin bonded with the rest, kind of treating them like subordinates in his squad. And Dutch tried not to judge them, mainly interacting with Constance, the heavily pregnant warrant. By the end, she’d accepted that Constance was making her choices for herself and as loyal to her sisterhood as they‘d been to her.
Dutch also let slip to D’avin that she’d grown up somewhere like this, the upper crust client picked up on her having had some high-born education. Dutch insisted on carrying through the original mission, however much it was no longer politically expedient (if it ever had been.)
Johnny made D’avin talk to him about his objective in returning to Westerley and the doctor he was looking for. He got D’avin to agree to their looking for her together, because they were family, unilaterally including Dutch in that. Therefore, according to Johnny logic, that made Dutch off-limits to D’avin (and himself?) He said he’d seen how D’avin looked at her. I found this irksome, partly because I’m in a ‘could ship Dutch/D’avin’ space, as he’s generally respectful of her awesomeness, but particularly because this episode was all about female agency even if you were part of a structure that only valued you as a walking womb/source of funding for your family. So, it didn’t matter how D’avin ‘looked at Dutch’, it was what she made of it, and Dutch can totally handle herself! I have some sympathy for Johnny thinking that romance/sex could put untenable pressure on the burgeoning team, but shut up, dude. And then D’avin was saying nice things about how Dutch had turned out despite her upbringing (even if he didn’t know that she wasn’t trained to be a surrogate as much as be an assassin, bless.) So, whatever D’avin said to his brother, he wasn’t really changing his behaviour towards Dutch.
