Review: Final Space “Until the Sky Falls”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Kevin begins work to activate the KVN Network, but the Lord Commander soon arrives with the army of alternate Gary corpses, suddenly turning on Invictus to drill his ship into the earth and find his true goal: finding a Titan that is about to hatch at the center of the Earth and take its power. The team splits up to stop him and get the network up and running, though Kevin sacrifices himself to turn it on so everyone else can escape. But while they’re able to complete the network, they are unable to stop the Lord Commander from becoming a Titan, destroying the network and throwing the portal back to their own dimension into the void of space.

OUR TAKE
And we’re back with more stuff that we should have probably known about several episodes before this one! This week, we apparently learn some new tidbits about the life cycle of Titans, namely that they apparently incubate WITHIN PLANETS. Would have been neat to have learned that awhile ago, but instead we’re getting it NOW, where it just raises a ton of questions instead of being the mindblowing revelation that it probably wants to be. To start with: Is this how ALL Titans are born? Why planets? When was this one put here? By who? Was this the reason why the Lord Commander wanted to pull the Earth into Final Space in the first place? Apparently not since he only just learned about it at the beginning of the episode, so why then? How is it that he absorbed its power and became a Titan? His plan of universal domination is not exactly surprising, but why exactly does he want it? And lastly, since now that the earth is destroyed we’ll never find this out: What the heck was up with that secret base they found in the bar near the end of Season 1 that had the bomb?

Now that that’s out of my system, this episode was certainly sufficiently paced in cramming in so many moving parts that all of the characters had to deal with, but they end up all feeling very haphazard and sudden that I can’t really keep in synch with the characters on an emotional level. Problems just spring up out of nowhere instead of feeling like natural results of previous actions like the aforementioned Titan Fetus and suddenly needing to fly over to Wisconsin to help put together a robot network that only started being relevant at the end of last episode and then is IMMEDIATELY undone by the end of this one. At best I thought there might be some hints at character deaths that might make me feel a sense of loss, but the only death we got was from Human Kevin, who has barely been around all season and I hardly know. And now the Lord Commander is a Titan! And I feel pretty much nothing about that since I never really thought he was all that interesting before, his motivations have never been explained, and he and Invictus are pretty much indistinguishable as characters besides LC having at least some noticeable personality. Plus it’s not like Invictus can’t just send other, more powerful Titans after him now that he’s gone full traitor. I guess we’ll see next week when the final three episodes of the season start.