Oh, yes! This was a great episode. Though strangely enough, the A plot with Nolan and Pottinger and the E-Rep squad checking out the crashed ship with the alien uber-assassin or whatever didn't really interest me that much. That was all by the numbers and predictable, even including the sacrifice of Churchill the Bio-manservant.
The various character sub-plots were where this episode shined. The sexist Castithan priest who ends up getting framed by Stahma. The scene near the beginning with Rafe visiting Datak and mocking him for his state of poverty he now lives in, especially the bit where Rafe laughed at Datak for having to shower now. Tommy and Berlin splitting and Berlin moving onto Nolan almost right away. I could probably stay entertained with all that without the ship story getting in the way. This is really compelling stuff.
Even, the story between Tommy and Irisa, while bringing back the oggy-boogy Irathient god crap didn't really dwell on the oogy-boogy, and Irisa is now realizing that whatever else she's dealing with, it certainly isn't a god.
Interesting idea there at the end where Pottinger's E-Rep superior got dressed an "alien drag" for lack of a better term by going to that club pretending to be a Castithan. Is that club supposed to for people to go disguised as another species, or is the guy just trying to blend in among actual Castithans?
Great episode, but on the nitpicky side, how likely is it that thirty years in the future, a girl who is familiar with Star Wars has never heard of a Barbie doll? Or is this a case where Barbie is no longer being manufactured while new Star Wars movie continue being pumped out? Is Disney still around in the 2040s? I'm guessing the E-Rep has a movie industry of some sort, Berlin intends her videos to be watched by someone. Seems fitting the Evil Empire is still around to provide entertainment to the moustache twirling villains of E-Rep.
