Under pressure from Falista, Janzo and Wren search for the meaning of Skevicor, finding some strange mysteries in the process. Talon and Zed are confronted with some horrifying revelations. Munt tries to woo Warlista.

I confess myself a little confused at one of the elements of this week’s episode, given that as far as I could make out, Munt and Warlista were already a couple. Nevertheless, Munt is trying to woo the young lady, and that means he turns to Tobin for advice in doing so. The relationship between these too is actually quite effective, Munt accidentally dropping pearls of wisdom to Tobin in his usual ramblings and Tobin in turn doing his best to offer solid advice, though given it’s Munt on the receiving end that isn’t always super effective.

Nevertheless, in the episode proper things are sort of starting to heat up. Talon and Zed (with Luna in tow) bear witness to the re-awakening of ‘a God’ and then find themselves in hot water really very quickly. I still can’t help but feel there’s a touch of Power Rangers to this new set of villains, all buried in secret places, waiting to be awakened. That said, I confess myself a little intrigued as to who exactly they are, and what their connection to both Kinjes and Humanity and the Blackbloods is, even if they are a little scenery-chewy.

Back at The Outpost, Tobin finds himself stuck squarely in the middle between his increasingly unstable wife and his own sense of right and wrong and loyalty to Spears. Having assisted in getting Luna out of jail, he’s now back to wanting to not betray Falista, even as she is getting more and more erratic. Now fully dedicated to The Gods she’s determined to enact their will by locating whatever the Skevicor is for them, per her vision. Tobin’s attempts to appeal to the ‘woman he’s been in love with since they were children’ (apparently, feels a bit sudden but hardly the most egregious bit of retconning the show has ever done) are generally falling on deaf ears and given the way these things tend to play out in the show, I suspect that will come to a (tragic) head sooner or later.

Meanwhile, Wren and Janzo frantically try to fulfil Falista’s demand in finding the Skevicor. This leads to lots of reading of old tomes, a neat little twist that explains a little more about Wren’s apparent destiny and then some budget Indiana Jonesing as the show proves once again that it’s very much not afraid to re-visit the same ideas over and over. Having established last season that the dreaded Black Kinj was the most powerful threat to everything ever, now apparently there’s an even bigger one. Thank The Gods the key to it is apparently conveniently buried in the same place as pretty much everything else.

All in all, it continues to be slightly more interesting than the season started out as, albeit awfully repetitive and familiar. People say the same things we’ve heard before, go to the same places and even try to make jokes about one of the show’s most enduring and irritating tropes. But overall, between the polystyrene rocks, the poor plotting and the constant retcons, even what charm the show has is starting to wear a little thin.

Verdict: Come for the cheap laughs, stay for fact that sunk cost fallacy is a thing. 5/10

Greg D. Smith