I am a big fan of this show, and though I still think the Empire scenes steal the show, i do think the overall narrative has gotten better.
The telepathic lady has been a cool character to watch, and an interesting "is she the villain or isn't she?" back and forth. The latest episode was beautiful (the planet explosion was very cool), and I was so excited to finally get some understanding of Demeziel. I've been wondering if it was her that orchestrated the "genetic drift" that has started to occur. What IS her true ambition.... its cool to see this very inscrutable character whose timespan and motives are so alien to our own that she's really hard to peg down.
There are a few flaws of course, probably the biggest one to me is how easily Dominion acquired footage that showed demeziel as a robot. This super closely guarded secret was way too easy to acquire imo. Also that the memory capacities of the various emperors was so easy for Dusk to find once he started looking....I feel like Demeziel would have covered the tracks there a bit better considering the hundreds of years she has had to iron out the kinks. Then again....perhaps this is all due to the genetic drift, it just never ever would have occurred to previous Cleons to even look at that stuff, and it wasn't until they became "a little different" that they would think to investigate.
My last note, I seriously thought they were going to kill the Cleric Girl, and I was on the edge of my seat, because they have set it up so well. I was like "Harry might absolutely have set someone up to be a martyr to the faith", and.... its still not clear if he did or not, which is part of the fun. Oh he says he thinks about all the people....but does he really?
Also the living Harry's death and "not death". The whole time I was like "ok Harry is not dead, he did some crazy breathing thing or something". Then we see him floating in the water with Salvo....and I went "well damn i was totally wrong, holy cow". And then.....nope turnaround again he is alive! Of course I await the crazy explanation on that one, he's been in that water for over a day now if not a few days.
The telepathic lady has been a cool character to watch, and an interesting "is she the villain or isn't she?" back and forth. The latest episode was beautiful (the planet explosion was very cool), and I was so excited to finally get some understanding of Demeziel. I've been wondering if it was her that orchestrated the "genetic drift" that has started to occur. What IS her true ambition.... its cool to see this very inscrutable character whose timespan and motives are so alien to our own that she's really hard to peg down.
There are a few flaws of course, probably the biggest one to me is how easily Dominion acquired footage that showed demeziel as a robot. This super closely guarded secret was way too easy to acquire imo. Also that the memory capacities of the various emperors was so easy for Dusk to find once he started looking....I feel like Demeziel would have covered the tracks there a bit better considering the hundreds of years she has had to iron out the kinks. Then again....perhaps this is all due to the genetic drift, it just never ever would have occurred to previous Cleons to even look at that stuff, and it wasn't until they became "a little different" that they would think to investigate.
My last note, I seriously thought they were going to kill the Cleric Girl, and I was on the edge of my seat, because they have set it up so well. I was like "Harry might absolutely have set someone up to be a martyr to the faith", and.... its still not clear if he did or not, which is part of the fun. Oh he says he thinks about all the people....but does he really?
Also the living Harry's death and "not death". The whole time I was like "ok Harry is not dead, he did some crazy breathing thing or something". Then we see him floating in the water with Salvo....and I went "well damn i was totally wrong, holy cow". And then.....nope turnaround again he is alive! Of course I await the crazy explanation on that one, he's been in that water for over a day now if not a few days.