We're heading into the home stretch of the first season and you can feel that things are brewing. The mole in Terra Nova is finally revealed and things are getting closer to a two way connection through the portal.
We find ourselves tonight in a good old enemy mine situation with Taylor and Mira. Neither wants to die at the claws of slashers so they have to join together to survive. I like this part of the episode. There were some good dino fights, and a lot of nicely placed backstory. This infodump was handled much better than earlier this year when Jim was taken by the Sixers. It also helps to add some sympathy for Mira. The sob story of them having her child was a little too much, but I like that she was on the wrong end of a revolution and this was her ticket out of jail. It garners sympathy without feeling like it's trying too hard to do just that. I wish they didn't have to give Mira the idiot ball to kick off that story though. In the pilot, Mira sent a guy to assassinate Taylor; in this episode, she had Taylor at gunpoint and didn't just pull the trigger. It's Terra Nova, so I suppose I should expect it.
Speaking of trying too hard to garner sympathy, Skye is the mole. Back in the day, it turns out, both her parents didn't die of technobabble fever and that the Sixers are keeper her mother alive through some special medicine. I really liked the character of Skye, probably my second favorite after Taylor. Now, though, eh. When she was first revealed, I thought that that doesn't seem very much in character for her, but that it could be pretty cool if everything we've seen up till now is just a façade. Then the sob story was revealed, and everything just became more generic. It's okay audience, she's really not bad, also neither is Mira, at least not all the way. Lucas though, the guy we've barely seen, he's bad, though, at least until we get some more character development from him. It will probably turn out that he just does this because he wants Taylor's love.
While I'm not crazy about the reveal of the mole, I did enjoy the hunt. Everyone working together to figure this out, finding clues, getting sabotaged, fun stuff. I especially liked Jim strong-arming Malcolm into helping him, funny scene. Everything to do with the baby dinosaur was bad. I didn't like egg story from a few episodes ago and I was hoping they had just dropped it. At least they're getting rid of it, but it held no plot importance at all and only serve to give us a heartfelt "aww" at the end. At least it was supposed to, mine was more of an "ugh." Soldier boring was also pretty bad, but that's usual for him. He want to declare his intentions to marry Maddy someday? C'mon! She's sixteen, he's probably not much older, so far we've barely seen them together, it's just weird. They want to try to create tension between him and Jim, as if the fact that he's dating his daughter wasn't enough, and they want to do it while still keeping him squeaky clean. Another case of no one on this show can actually be bad.
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