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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4997942" data-attributes="member: 32536">I really liked the episode. The depth and complexity of these characters really came out in this episode, and it is that aspect which is this series' real strength. If nothing else, this is the first episode that I ever really got to understand and like Greer, which says a lot considering how much I hated him in earlier episodes. The writing and acting really is stellar.I will agree that leaving everything so unresolved makes the ending a little hard to swallow. We didn't need to see the characters go through the events a third time, but it would have been nice to see one final scene of the characters walking through that gate and seeing a Kino on the ground, just to bring the episode full circle (which is the most appropriate end to a time-loop episode).I disagree that all of the character development is necessarily wiped away, though. Sure, they did not send the original Kino back through the time loop, but at the same time they didn't really need to. That Kino was sent back into time before the point where time really diverged, and it could conceivably still be there back in time when the second one was later added by the second loop. That is, the addition of the second Kino doesn't necessarily mean that the first Kino went away. Theoretically, if the loop continued, there would be one new Kino for each pass through the loop. The "real" timeline not shown by the episode could very well feasibly include all of the scenes involving the characters watching the film and all of the character growth from those scenes.Time travel can give me headaches, though...EDIT: You know, the biggest thing this episode does for me is reinforce exactly how precarious the situation is for the people on the Destiny. It is almost literally a miracle that they had a solution to the very plausible crisis brought on by the contaminated water. Stumbling on a planet with creatures that produce an antibiotic venom is one thing. Having Lt. Scott be bitten but not killed so that he was cured is another thing. Having that incident be filmed by a Kino that is sent back in time to a point where it is still possible to avert calamity is something else entirely. And even that doesn't save them in time. Surviving that trip is not going to be easy...</blockquote>

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