'She is learning to abandon the world'

[swatkat24]

I'm not sure if it's just me or if there was indeed something up with this episode, because I spent it being mostly uninterested in the Pete and Myka plot (who are, yet again, relegated to the comedy C-plot) and unimpressed by the Steve and Claudia plot (the metronome problem solved, just like that?!), and being deeply, embarrassingly invested in the two minute HG plot that bookended the episode. Because that, that was everything I ask of a character's arc and more. I never expected for HG to be a charming flirty rogue with daaark past, but she was. I did not expect the betrayal, the yellow crayon moment and the inevitable paying for her sins, but that's what the writers gave us. They gave us awkward attempts at redemption, and then they gave us a noble self-sacrifice that left me flattened. I had hoped, like everyone else, that this wasn't the end, that HG would be back, but as a finished redemption arc? It would've been fantastic. Heartbreaking, but fantastic. I would have wept bitter tears and loved it for eternity while reading a bazillion fix-it fics. BUT! Then they had to give us THIS, this ~LONELY EXILE TRYING TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE, ALTHOUGH SHE WOULD RATHER STAY AND HELP. I don't even know, guys. How do they know me so well?

This is not just a redemption story for HG. Just like there are no magical fix-its for changing the course of time, there is no fairy tale ~noble ending for HG Wells. This is the story of her agonizing path to some semblance of grace, inch by inch, step by step, always with the shadow of darkness behind her, always the risk of fall.

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I am glad, glad, glad they've not deviated from their policy of using HG sparingly, with devastating effect. Gah.

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