Review: Final Space “The Dead Speak”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

With his new Frieza-esque Titan form, Lord Commander kills Bolo and almost crushes the Galaxy Two while chasing it around the area (somehow running on nothing) before the ship can lightfold away. Invictus then arrives and punishes him for his betrayal by sending multiple Titans to kill him, though he eventually kills them all. Back on the ship, everyone’s morale is at rock bottom, with the gate home off who knows where, their plan to stop the Titans ironically creating a new one, and everyone aside from Quinn slowly succumbing to Final Space Poisoning. To make matters worse, Invictus finds them quickly and showers them with Gary Zombies.

They kill most of them, but Little Cato suggests removing Invictus’ influence from the last one, briefly reviving that Gary for long enough for him to confirm that all timelines will lead to this outcome, apparently meaning…something? And as it turns out, with every Gary that ended up in Final Space by closing the breach, there are also multiple earths, each presumably containing a Titan Embryo…and possibly a Kevin Van Newton? So Quinn decides that the situation is FUBAR and they should look for the gate and do what they were going to do a couple episodes ago: get the eff out of Final Space.

OUR TAKE
Haha, Keith David’s big blue character from THIS show got stabbed and killed, whereas in Amphibia, his big blue character stabbed and killed someone else!

Things continue go increasingly insane in Final Space as we dive headlong towards the season (and possibly series) finale. I racked my brain around the logic behind the Lord Commander’s transformation into a Titan last week, but it seems that’s going to be the tip of the iceberg for things that completely pull me out of the episode and make me question just about every second. First off, to expand on a matter from last week, how does the Lord Commander plan to usurp Invictus by simply becoming a Titan? Last I checked, the Titans on Invictus’ side (meaning everyone except Bolo) joined him willingly, but the dude can also just possess people at will and control them. So what’s to stop him from doing that to LC? Not that it really matters much in the end, as even if LC gets what he wants, we’re just swapping out one bland villain with undiscernible motivations with another.

Back with the Galaxy Two, this is clearly meant to be the All is Lost Moment before everyone heads into the climax guns ablazing. Avocato has some somewhat understandable grievances with Quinn about how much they’ve sacrificed for her and now they’re all about to die, though all it does for me is wish these two had a more well defined relationship. We get some slight development with Ash, who gets some hints that she thinks this may be the “wrong side”…but given that the only other side here is the energy demon who wants to make all of existence a hivemind under his control, I think Ash is just going pure evil AND stupid. And lastly, there’s zombie Gary saying that “all timelines lead to Final Space”, which I think was meant to imply that this will keep happening over and over again until they beat Invictus, but the only reason it kept repeating is because Nightfall kept going back in time to save Gary after he closed the breach. In this timeline, Quinn did that, and they saved her, so there’s no reason for anyone to go back in time. So what the heck are the stakes here?! Is it just beating Invictus? Then why are we throwing in all these alternate timelines?! And I think I’ll leave all the spare earths for next week, because this is enough of a headache to wrap my head raound as it is. At the very least, I can say that they embrace the crazy with confidence, but that alone is not enough at this late stage.