WotW mini-picspam
Two eps that I don't much like, and one that I do - but does not lend itself to capping. Hence the mini.
I will group Dust to Dust and He Feedeth Among The Lilies together, as they both had nifty premises that fell flat. The first one had a fellow who robbed Indian graves and sold the takings. Ironhorse gets hacked at that, and goes by to pay the fellow a visit. An elder from a local reservation does the same thing. Neither of them get far with him, but the aliens recognize a part of an artifact he's dug up as starter for one of their older warships. They kill the fellow, take the starter, and go to dig up the warship. This is where the ep just gets silly, as the elder calls a thunderstorm to destroy the ship. This ep does have some rather good lines, so it's a pity.
The confrontation was rather adorable. Ironhorse talks along the way about how politic and cautious and polite they will have to be, and of course he goes off when they arrive, and Blackwood has to spend the scene placating him. It's ridiculoulsly cute.
There's some other random groping in the ep, but that scene is my fave.
Enough of that. The second ep had the nice premise that the aliens are only learning so much from vivisection (a rather well-done creepy bit at the beginning):
so they decide to abduct humans and implant devices in them to gather data in real-time, as it were. Blackwood and his team are interviewing people who have strange memories of abduction. One of them is a blonde, and Blackwood promptly hops into the sack with her. It would not be so annying if it were not for two things. Firstly, it is completely out of the blue. Secondly, the woman who plays the blonde is a painfully, gut-wrenchingly, fingers-on-blackboard bad actress. It's past the so-bad-it's-funny point (where Norton was in the first couple of eps).
She does have a dream about Blackwood being abducted by aliens naked, which is almost worth watching the thing. *giggle*
And then she's abducted and killed, and there is much rejoicing. (Yaaaay.) Even in his Ostensibly Het episode, there is still a little:
The Prodigal Son. I liked this one. It's less slashy and more plotty. Basically, an alien, Quinn, took over a human body back in the '53 invasion, but by some strange twist of biology, he's a) stuck in the body and b) not susceiptible to human disease. He poses as a human artist, and Blackwood goes to visit him. And it's silly, but I don't think the man can appear in a scene with Ironhorse without putting his hands on the man at some point.
Blackwood visits Quinn, and Quinn abducts the man. He wants Blackwood to pass an ultimatum onto the UN; Quinn wants to rule the world, and figures he can do it by brokering a deal that kills all but 10% of the human population, allowing the rest to live on an alien-dominated planet. He drags Blackwood off, but not before Blackwood drops the Obscure Clue From Hell that Ironhorse nonetheless gets as he's trying to find the didn't-check-in Blackwood (as is now standard procedure, whenever Blackwood is away, Ironhorse is doing something on the spectrum between fretting and flipping).
They run to the UN, but aliens are after Quinn. Blackwood helps Quinn to kill the aliens, and Quinn decides to rethink his strategy and let Blackwood go. Ironhorse comes running in, and he is not sure if Blackwood has been taken by an alien. They have an increasingly slashy conversation that led to a moment where Ironhorse puts down his gun, Blackwood licks his lips, and I actually talked to the screen ("Kiss him already," I believe). Then they faded to black. Thanks, guys. The last shot is Quinn walking away. Great character, and they could have used him in SII if SII hadn't been royally fecked.
I will group Dust to Dust and He Feedeth Among The Lilies together, as they both had nifty premises that fell flat. The first one had a fellow who robbed Indian graves and sold the takings. Ironhorse gets hacked at that, and goes by to pay the fellow a visit. An elder from a local reservation does the same thing. Neither of them get far with him, but the aliens recognize a part of an artifact he's dug up as starter for one of their older warships. They kill the fellow, take the starter, and go to dig up the warship. This is where the ep just gets silly, as the elder calls a thunderstorm to destroy the ship. This ep does have some rather good lines, so it's a pity.
The confrontation was rather adorable. Ironhorse talks along the way about how politic and cautious and polite they will have to be, and of course he goes off when they arrive, and Blackwood has to spend the scene placating him. It's ridiculoulsly cute.
There's some other random groping in the ep, but that scene is my fave.
Enough of that. The second ep had the nice premise that the aliens are only learning so much from vivisection (a rather well-done creepy bit at the beginning):
so they decide to abduct humans and implant devices in them to gather data in real-time, as it were. Blackwood and his team are interviewing people who have strange memories of abduction. One of them is a blonde, and Blackwood promptly hops into the sack with her. It would not be so annying if it were not for two things. Firstly, it is completely out of the blue. Secondly, the woman who plays the blonde is a painfully, gut-wrenchingly, fingers-on-blackboard bad actress. It's past the so-bad-it's-funny point (where Norton was in the first couple of eps).
She does have a dream about Blackwood being abducted by aliens naked, which is almost worth watching the thing. *giggle*
And then she's abducted and killed, and there is much rejoicing. (Yaaaay.) Even in his Ostensibly Het episode, there is still a little:
The Prodigal Son. I liked this one. It's less slashy and more plotty. Basically, an alien, Quinn, took over a human body back in the '53 invasion, but by some strange twist of biology, he's a) stuck in the body and b) not susceiptible to human disease. He poses as a human artist, and Blackwood goes to visit him. And it's silly, but I don't think the man can appear in a scene with Ironhorse without putting his hands on the man at some point.
Blackwood visits Quinn, and Quinn abducts the man. He wants Blackwood to pass an ultimatum onto the UN; Quinn wants to rule the world, and figures he can do it by brokering a deal that kills all but 10% of the human population, allowing the rest to live on an alien-dominated planet. He drags Blackwood off, but not before Blackwood drops the Obscure Clue From Hell that Ironhorse nonetheless gets as he's trying to find the didn't-check-in Blackwood (as is now standard procedure, whenever Blackwood is away, Ironhorse is doing something on the spectrum between fretting and flipping).
They run to the UN, but aliens are after Quinn. Blackwood helps Quinn to kill the aliens, and Quinn decides to rethink his strategy and let Blackwood go. Ironhorse comes running in, and he is not sure if Blackwood has been taken by an alien. They have an increasingly slashy conversation that led to a moment where Ironhorse puts down his gun, Blackwood licks his lips, and I actually talked to the screen ("Kiss him already," I believe). Then they faded to black. Thanks, guys. The last shot is Quinn walking away. Great character, and they could have used him in SII if SII hadn't been royally fecked.