Though I initially enjoyed this episode (in particular, Nigel Bennett's performance), I soon realised a few things; how stupid would not just the commander of one ship have to be, but, the untold countless thousands, who all believed - never questioned - the increasingly erratic, and ever-more just plain loony commands, orders.. statements all issued but just one person. Yes; this is a TV show, but even in a real world's country, there's layers designed to protect such a thing from happening. Multiply this by the supposed myriad of homeworlds for all these vessels, and not one had anyone - other than this person who's undeniably starkers, and the 'reality' disintegrated.
Lest I forget, the supposed hostage - to lure Dylan, Triumvir, tri-Jemma, who I began to wonder; how did she get this position, of begging one of a group of 3 'supreme' leaders of an intergalactic federation of planets, when she's so dense?!?
In an earlier episode, the second series' finale, Tunnel at The End of The Light, in which all these delegates of the reconstituted Commonwealth were onboard Andromeda, when they're attacked by these tesseracting-capable beings, who's sole purpose seemed to be to kill, and cause mayhem, a question was put to Dylan; he should be a Triumvir. The person who said this was a noted statesperson, and Dylan said instead of he being Triumvir, the person, who managed to accomplish the seemingly daunting political task of giving the entire citizenry planetary population of her world equally rights of freedom.
Hell; that's a real accomplishment, and even though this is just a series, it's not a simple, minor task akin to doing the weekly laundry, but one which requires someone with finesse, intelligence eloquence and a lot of fortitude.
On this episode, the aforementioned Triumvir, tri-Jemna's being held - without restraints, but solely by the ability of this raving lunatic to convince her not only that Dylan Hunt's engineered this massive destruction of the reconstituted Commonwealth, but he's done it, and this supposed(ly) 'brightest-of-the-bright' intergalactic politician never said to herself; 'gee; let me just compare what I've known of Dylan, myself, personally, and compare that with JUST this ONE lunatic's rantings....'
Never crosses her mind.
If this was a real politician - I wouldn't let her be in charge of a street lamp.
When Dylan arrives - to save her - she just stands there - pointing a weapon at him, as if he's just demonstrated his true craziness in front of her by slaughtering 1000 elderly grandparents in front of her.
Her standards are really, REALLY poor.
I'd rather believe the self-levitating person who speaks one moment in calm, lucid tones, and faster than a pin drops, it's screeching raving lunacy with nothing bearing anything close to reality.
That's not just scary, it's pathetic.
She even says to Dylan - in a cave in a planner, which is literally falling apart as they stand there, she's 'safe' there.
Faster than a lightweight gets turned on-then-off, in less than 10-seconds (a minute after her ludicrous, 'I'm safe'comment), and Pario shows up - raving away, it's only AFTER Dylan shoots him and rather than intently dying, he does that weird 'possessed by the Abyss'thing (lightning bolts stream through him, blah, blah) that this 'apex politician' realises there's something wrong, and in her oddly third-person way of telling about herself, she commands; 'get us the hell out of here'.
Erm, you want to apologise? No? Ok, think about this; you've just governed thousands of planets, yet, in spite of having a(n obvious) maniac solely in charge of...whatever, BILLIONS are probably dead and/or dying, and you think your can just act more royal than actual royally? Get yourself a cab, lady.
I also find the actress who plays her (Carmen Moore) to be really... not one who can make such a poorly-written episode have that magical believability which is necessary (compare Nigel Bennett's performance in this one-off role with hers, and it's very apparent.
In spite of the thinness of the Paroo character (we never heard of him. Never saw him. Nothing), it's a tribute to Mr Bennett's acting skills that he was able to make (even a cynic like me) believe he was capable of all of this (I admit that had I not re-watched this, I'd have a much higher opinion of the episode.
But, in today's world of instant 'binge-watching', wherever and whenever one wants, viewing's a LOT different than just a few decades ago, when not everyone had a VCR, and in order to re-watch something,, you had to first, be aware of it, by reading it in TV listings, and then made sure you'd be able to watch it; even if that were 3a. Now, all one need do is say to themselves; 'i want to watch it, and 'click', just stream it, baby!.
Back to tri-Jemma for a moment; I had to look up the actress to get her link for this review, and normally, I'm not one to be judgemental able a person'appearance, but, in this case, I was...(unfortunately) shocked by the picture(s) me Moore's currently (2022) using as her headshot.
Oh....boy.
It's hard for me to say anything (esp in this day and age) -and with people not having any ideas about me - who I am, what I do, but, all I can say is; I don't mean this to be cruel, but Ms Bennett's current appearance is akin to what that person, 'Snookie' looked like on her 'best' 😩😳 day. This woman was at the time of this episodes filming was not bad looking. I'm not one who thinks a person 'loses' their looks as they age. Quite the contrary. I DO have A BIG problem with anyone trying to 'dress/look young(er)' than they are. It never works, and only accentuates bad.
She's got that awful flat-ironed long hair look.
Why anyone thinks flat, dead, hair is (1) attractive, (2) if it IS flattering on a small group, that DOESN'T mean 'EVERYONE' should do it.
It's really sad to see someone, become a victim of a misbelief that I'm other to be (considered) 'attractive' , as they age, they should 'dress/look young'.
I know if many people - both men and women - who look terrific - no matter their age. A great example (STILL) for men it's the incomparable Cary Grant. Mr Grant understood that is not you trying to 'fit in', but very simply, funding what you look best in - and that's all.
For women, look at Meryl Streep, who's always had enough belief in herself rather than to do 'what others do'.
There's many others, but it seems this ridiculous notion of 'fitting in'- which anyone as a youngster looking at such a person instantly knows how ridiculous it is, yet, for some reason, when anyone grows up, those who have less than a strong self of sense are easily tricked into this (even as Mr Grant aged, woman (and men), both young and old - found him 'stylish', and 'desirable'.
It's sad to see people who think they must try - no matter their real, current age, to look like they're still in high school.
It never works.
Very sad.
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