Shaking things up a little
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shallownessKilljoys 1.6 - One Blood
I liked that this shook up the warrant of the week pattern, in that it was a black warrant, with D’avin’s newbie status enabling the show to exposit what it was, who Joe was and the urban legend about level 6 Killjoys to the audience. (Fully expect to see that happen on the show now.) It developed many things, how disposable the Killjoys are to the RAC, their relationship with the Company, the Company’s MO and intent, how Leith is treated in the Quad, as well as the overarching personal stories.
D’avin was trying to distance himself from Doctor Daft Name after crossing boundaries. It was mainly about the fact that he was still giving Dutch puppy dog looks even after having sex with the Doc, but I also had some sympathy with the idea that therapy wasn’t necessarily the best intervention to get rid of the literal memory blocks in his brain. Desperate to keep him on side, the Doc offered to use her Company connections to try to find out about his mystery Doc. Her methods of doing so revealed background info that was relevant to the plot for the viewers, got her in trouble, and made the Company curious about mystery doc.
There was some UST from Dutch towards D’avin too, but she had a whole lot of other more important stuff going on, with her ex assassination mentor Khleyn forcing her to work for him, while batting off most of her efforts to set some conditions. He got connected to her via a neural link, meaning his hologram could follow her about as he gave her a side mission to the black warrant.
The black warrant, being a competition between the top Killjoy teams, allowed them to bring back Fancy from the first episode (I ended up respecting him, at least). They were tasked with finding one of their own, Joe, who had been a better mentor to Dutch as a Killjoy and was a nice contrast to Khleyn the creep who kept trying to justify what he was doing and had done and force ‘Yala’ to play nice with him. Liked the mock fight between Dutch and Joe that showed how well they knew each other. Joe didn’t really know what he’d stolen from the Company. Neither did his clients, a family of xenophobic Lethians. They found out, because the oldest son was too stupid to live, but the reveal of what the weapon was capable of and the suggestion of what the Company would do with it were horrifying.
Teamed up with Fancy, D’avin and Johnny helped rescue Dutch (with Fancy stirring to Johnny about how sex generally ruined triads, and he didn’t want to think about his actual brother and adoptive sister getting it on.) She had to bring Joe and the weapon in to the RAC, not Khleyn. The RAC head honcho did a deal with the Company man, and Joe’s warrant got upgraded. Dutch could not take the shot, Fancy did, and the weapon returned to the Company.
At least, Dutch spilled to her team. Not clear how much Johnny knew of her past, but now D’avin had some idea, too with her asking for their help for her to flip from being on the defensive under threat of returning to Khleyn’s control. Just really well-judged and interesting developments all round. If I had a critique, it would be that Dutch and the Doc aside, all the characters with lines were men, but, on the other hand, this verse’s smartphones are very cool (if probably rubbish in daylight.)
I liked that this shook up the warrant of the week pattern, in that it was a black warrant, with D’avin’s newbie status enabling the show to exposit what it was, who Joe was and the urban legend about level 6 Killjoys to the audience. (Fully expect to see that happen on the show now.) It developed many things, how disposable the Killjoys are to the RAC, their relationship with the Company, the Company’s MO and intent, how Leith is treated in the Quad, as well as the overarching personal stories.
D’avin was trying to distance himself from Doctor Daft Name after crossing boundaries. It was mainly about the fact that he was still giving Dutch puppy dog looks even after having sex with the Doc, but I also had some sympathy with the idea that therapy wasn’t necessarily the best intervention to get rid of the literal memory blocks in his brain. Desperate to keep him on side, the Doc offered to use her Company connections to try to find out about his mystery Doc. Her methods of doing so revealed background info that was relevant to the plot for the viewers, got her in trouble, and made the Company curious about mystery doc.
There was some UST from Dutch towards D’avin too, but she had a whole lot of other more important stuff going on, with her ex assassination mentor Khleyn forcing her to work for him, while batting off most of her efforts to set some conditions. He got connected to her via a neural link, meaning his hologram could follow her about as he gave her a side mission to the black warrant.
The black warrant, being a competition between the top Killjoy teams, allowed them to bring back Fancy from the first episode (I ended up respecting him, at least). They were tasked with finding one of their own, Joe, who had been a better mentor to Dutch as a Killjoy and was a nice contrast to Khleyn the creep who kept trying to justify what he was doing and had done and force ‘Yala’ to play nice with him. Liked the mock fight between Dutch and Joe that showed how well they knew each other. Joe didn’t really know what he’d stolen from the Company. Neither did his clients, a family of xenophobic Lethians. They found out, because the oldest son was too stupid to live, but the reveal of what the weapon was capable of and the suggestion of what the Company would do with it were horrifying.
Teamed up with Fancy, D’avin and Johnny helped rescue Dutch (with Fancy stirring to Johnny about how sex generally ruined triads, and he didn’t want to think about his actual brother and adoptive sister getting it on.) She had to bring Joe and the weapon in to the RAC, not Khleyn. The RAC head honcho did a deal with the Company man, and Joe’s warrant got upgraded. Dutch could not take the shot, Fancy did, and the weapon returned to the Company.
At least, Dutch spilled to her team. Not clear how much Johnny knew of her past, but now D’avin had some idea, too with her asking for their help for her to flip from being on the defensive under threat of returning to Khleyn’s control. Just really well-judged and interesting developments all round. If I had a critique, it would be that Dutch and the Doc aside, all the characters with lines were men, but, on the other hand, this verse’s smartphones are very cool (if probably rubbish in daylight.)
