We begin pretty much right where
last episode left off, with Commander Sendak sending his five Robot Drones to
kill Pidge. They hack Pidge and Allura’s communication to figure out where she’s
going. Clever little buggers. But, I do have to question sending your entire
squad of robots to take out a single intruder. Sure, it may increase the odds
of stopping the intruder, but decreases security around the control room. You’ve
got the castle, the Lions, and most of the paladins. Sendak doesn’t even need
to take off, really. Just call the boss, they’ll send a fleet, and then the bad
guys win. I’m thinking too hard about this, aren’t I?
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| Not sure why Shay's species doesn't have pupils. |
Pidge makes it to the generator
room. Flashes back to her back when she went by her birth name of Katie Holt,
having one last dinner with her brother and father before their mission to
Kerberos. It’s the kind of sweet, happy moment that if we hadn’t already seen
them disappear, I’d have called disappearance or death. After Shiro, and her
family’s disappearance, she breaks into the office of a Galaxy Garrison
official for answers. Her snooping has told her that the official story that
everyone had died in a crash was complete bull spit. She’s caught, it’s stated
that it’s happened before, and told she’s forever banned from GG property.
Katie swears she’ll never stop looking for answers, which she obviously didn’t.
Back in the present she gets attacked by the drones. Allura then enlists her
mice to help with the whole force-field disabling thing. Who knew being
telepathically connected to rodents would be useful?
Pidge is able to escape the Gulra
Guardbots thanks to a hologram, and her whip like Bayard. She escapes to the
training deck, and uses the invisible maze from a few episodes ago to trap and
disable two of the guards. One of the remaining guards chases her into the ventilation
and nearly kills her. She smashes it, nearly falls down the same airduck as the
bot, but is saved at the last moment by Rover. Such a helpful little machine.
Back with Coran and Hunk, they bond
with the local Balmerans. The lizard-like people are very pro-family and generous.
Except for one of them, Rox, Shay’s brother. He says and does things that make
it clear he’s going to make bad choices. He’s very much a “keep our heads down
and deal with life, because a sucky life is better than death,” sort of fellow.
These guys never make the right choices when baddies show up. Shay lets them
know that there’s one “star ship class” crystal that they are looking for, but
it’s pretty much impossible to get. The crystals are incredibly rare, even
before the over mining, and the Gulra jealously guard these as soon as they’re
discovered. Coran goes to do some recon while Hunk repairs the ship.
Back with Pidge, she flashes back
to her first day at Galaxy Garrison, and meeting Hunk and Lance. She runs into
the commander whose office she’d broken into several times before, who is apparently
an idiot. Why? Pidge modeled her “Guy” look off of her brother. Same hair style
and color, to the point that she’s just a shorter version of her bro. Someone
the command would either have known personally or by reputation. So how the
flying cuss word did he not figure out that Pidge Gunderson was Katie Holt? Or at
least connected to the Holts. No idea. She blows off Hunk and Lance to do more
snooping. Back in the present, Pidge finally gets she’d been kind of a jerk to
her team in the pasts and resolves to do better now. And she’s going to start
by saving the day today. You go, girl.
Back on the Balmera, Hunk bonds
with Shay the Balmeran. Shay has no idea what the sky looks like, having been
forced to live in the caverns of the Balmera all her life. Kind of messed up,
right? Hunk is kind of flabbergasted by the fact that the obvious slave, the
latest in countless generations of slaves, doesn’t have a concept of freedom.
Damn, Hunk, I know you’re not always the brightest, but come on. Rox interrupts
their discussion and keeps being a dick. Not even going to waste time trying to
think of a D I C K acronym. Rox is just a dick, plain and simple. He basically
tells Hunk to buzz off and stop filling his sister’s head with impossible
dreams.
Pidge is able to further sabotage
the castle, overloading the ships main engine and disabling the Gulra soldier
for a moment. She and the soldier, Haxous, duke it out after he recovered.
Grown Gulra Male vs. pre-teen/teenage girl, it’s not the most even fight. Not
being sexist here, no teenager could hope to go toe to toe with a full grown
adult and a soldier at that. Haxous has the height, weight, strength and
experience advantage. Despite these obvious handicaps, with Rover’s help she’s
able to cause Haxous to die pretty horribly. She trips him up with her Bayard’s
energy chain and knocks him off the side of the platform they’re on. He grabs
Rover, who opts to power down, killing itself to finish off Haxous. I’d scream
noooooo, if Rover had been a slightly more memorable character. I kind of
forgot about the little guy until the last two episodes. Pidge is heartbroken
to see her little drone dying, but isn’t really given a chance to grieve.
Sendak contacts Pidge via the comms, tortures Shiro and tries to force Pidge to
surrender. Jerk.
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| Yet another living planet. They seem to be pretty common across the universe. |
In one of the strangest scenes I’ve
seen, the mice kill the remaining drone and disable the shield letting Keith
and Allura back inside. Most vicious yet brilliant little vermin, ever. Pidge
uses more holograms to distract Sendak, but the Gulra commander is craftier
then she anticipated and sees through her rouse. He nabs her in his robot arm
and starts crushing her. Keith and Allura arrive, Sendak implies he’ll crush
Pidge in his robot hand if they don’t stand down. In the excitement, no one
notices that Lance momentarily wakes up. Somehow he’s able to read the
situation, summon his Bayard blaster, and shoots Sendak in the back. The impact
is enough to force him to drop Pidge, but not kill him… for reasons. The group then
rushes Sendak, literally disarming him of his robo-arm, before capturing him
inside a force field. Keith and Lance have a bro-bonding moment, as Keith helps
the injured Lance up and he grumbles “we make a good team.” Awh. Hunk and Coran
just barely escape the Balmera thanks to Pidge’s tinkering with their pod. She
included a booster rocket, which could
have turned the pod into a fireball, but doesn’t because… reasons. Makes you
wonder why they included the two lines setting up the possible consequences of
using the booster rocket. Once they get back, they plug in the new crystal,
Lance is stuck in a cryogenic healing pod, and Pidge decides to stay with the
team. Hooray for teamwork.
This is a very Pidge centric
episode. It answers a whole bunch of questions about her past, why she decided
to infiltrate Galaxy Garrison, why she hid her gender, and also helped give her
some character growth. Killing Rover to reach that end felt a little forced,
but meh, I’ll let them have it. It also helps to set up Hunk’s story arc for
the next few episodes, as watching Shay get captured to save them hits him
pretty hard. Shay’s capture is Hunks, to quote Tallahassee from Zombieland, “Time to Nut up or Shut up”
moment. Everybody needs one of those. The fight scenes, both between Haxous and
Pidge as well as between most of the team and Sendak, are really well done
despite only being a few seconds long. Once again, no Voltron, but as we
established earlier, this isn’t really a bad thing. Less stuff about Voltron
means more stuff about the characters, just about always a good thing. So yeah,
a good episode. Next time, episode six.
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