Sunday, July 4, 2010

Afterlife - Episode 1x09 - The Cure

I will get my slight disappointment out of the way now. This is not my favorite episode of the season, by far. I personally feel that it was one of the weakest. Don’t get me wrong, the episode and story were still good and we still had a few mysteries, but I just feel it didn’t have that extra little something that makes me feel like it was one of those amazing and kick-ass episodes.

I felt like the episode dragged at times. The beginning was a great, a few scenes in the middle were good, and the ending was good. We had a few mysteries (such as, who was Jonathan speaking with). Trias being killed by Aurora was another highlight. We didn’t get nearly the amount of action throughout that we had gotten in the past few episodes, so maybe that is was I feel was lacking.

The darkness within Aurora is developing more and more and it keeps getting more intriguing as time goes on. It appears that she can’t be hurt anymore, as her wound healed during her fight with Trias. Apparently she’ll eventually give in to the darkness, but even though she seems to not be troubled quite as much by the visions, she still doesn’t seem to have given in. I’m interested to see what will happen if she gives in, although I’m still thinking that it’ll be stopped somehow.

And we also got to see Lianna and her family again in this episode. I really liked seeing her about to kill Aurora, but then ultimately being stopped by Nera. I get the feeling that this won’t be the last that we see of the family. I definitely wanting to know what role they’ll play if we ever see them again (and since they don’t appear to have left, maybe we’ll see them again soon, rather than later).

Despite this, in my opinion, being weaker than other episodes this season, it was still very well written and is still much better than other scripts that I’ve read. I hope that the bar that has been set will be met by the last two episodes. That way, I’ll be even more pumped to read on into Season 2.

Jimbo’s Next Theory
Nera is going to also have something to do with getting rid of the darkness in Aurora, or at least stopping Aurora from giving into it.

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