Quoting reviewer *arvanlaar*:: What she actually went through was nothing near the traumatic experience that one would expect her going through. (...drivel...drivel...) or making her actions in the previous episodes as one where she doesn't look like she was immersed in the blood of a multitude of victims who entrails were dangling off her head and now she has to go back to get revenge. ::end quote
Apparently reviewer *arvanlaar* doesn't think being sucked onto an alien planet is a "traumatic experience". Being stranded there for over 6½ months shouldn't bother anyone. This desert environment is devoid of life, water and sunlight. What there is is endless rocks and sand, and several moons in the permanent severe twilight that passes for sky.
Being nearly eaten alive by an alien squid-plant happens to nice British Science Ladies all the time back on Earth, so Jemma should have been totally prepared for this...I guess she missed that day at the academy. Eventually killing and eating the beast, she shows she's made of sterner stuff than previously hinted at.
Captured and imprisoned by an unknown entity, Jemma again refuses to give in, telling him go ahead and kill me now because I'll not be held captive. After her escape, he relents and allows her to live as his companion and fellow lost earthling, not his prisoner. A NASA astronaut from 2001, Will has been stranded on the planet for 14 years.
Cobbling together his old NASA equipment and her Fitz-Enhanced phone battery, Jemma's able to figure out the physics of the wormhole (the monolith) and predict when and where the wormhole will appear, giving her and Will a plan of attack for future rescue.
I hope not all Canadians are like the South-Park-Caricature-Canadian that is reviewer *arvanlaar* and appreciate this episode for what it is, an excellent character expose for a previously under exposed team member.
Watching Elizabeth Henstridge carefully, one can catch glimpses of a young Jennifer Garner, both physically and hinting at future thespian successes. Maybe JJ Abrams can work up a new *Alias 2.0* with both these fine actresses in it...
Bravo
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