EFC just blows this season, its rank, it sucks, add your neg
Bonnee brings up why I was so ****ed when I first wrote this post. I never bothered editing it so there’s a few mistakes in there.
But like Bonnee mentioned this was a mature sci-fi series. It was not meant to be humorous or even that Sci-Fi’ish. It was about the philosophical question: What if an Alien race came to Earth, ended hunger, war, poverty, disease, etc..etc.. but the cost was Humanity unknowingly being their fodder for their war against the Jaridians. As well as being their last best chance at their own species finding an energy solution.
Meanwhile you have the Resistance who in many ways are the bad guys of series 1. They are the violent ones. The ones who will use any means necessary to evict the Taelons. They dont care about the truth.
Many humans put in Taelon shoes would do the same thing. It was a series with no bad guys, no good guys. Just a very human sci-fi series.
In Season 1, they introduced a police officer named Boone who unlike 99% of humanity has reservations about anyone who comes to Earth and claiming to only want to help us and having no agenda. Sure enough when Boone declines their offer to become a companion his wife is brutally murdered(Who is Bekka Valentine on Andromeda! And she played a cop on Forever Knight) Now Boone accepts their offer, but his real motivation is to find the Taelons agenda and bring them down.
I hated Season 1, but it was so fresh and new. Ronald Sandoval is still a conflicted character. And probably one of the best written and best played Chars in Sci-Fi history. Boone is killed at the end of the first series, beggining of second, and Liam is introduced and the series TOOK OFF. In my opinion 3 of the finest seasons of Sci-Fi took place. And a clear evolution of the truth behind the Taelons.
Series 5, was Tomb Raider. Plain and simple they said F&#$ the fan base and lets try and get a lot of viewers for the final season. Lets display a lot of skin and throw the history out the window.
Again my biggest problem with the final series isnt even that. Its the Atavus. Atavii were a BIG part of Seasons 1 and 2. We learn this is the race both the Taelons and Jaridians came from. The Taelons chose to form a comminaltity, sacrificing all their emotion and privacy to overcome their animal nature and become almost pure sentient energy (Btw the ‘skin’ of the Taelons is a suit, they have no physical form) The Jaridians refused to form the comminality but evolved as well into energy form while keeping their physical form(Which is why Jaridians explode upon death)
Before the Atavii split into Jaridian and Taelon they met a race called the Kimera/Chimera. This was a pure energy race with no physical form, its thought that this was the race the Taelons stole the idea from. In any event the Atavii betrayed the Kimera and genocided them, imprisoning the final Kimera named Ma-El.
Millions of years later Ma-El escaped and gave birth to Liam through Sandoval and Beckett. Liams role was to finish the Kimera agenda. The Kimera were like Angels, they really did not have an evil bone ..err particle in their bodies. Even eons later when the last of their kinda escapes, he’s still only concerned with *saving* them, hence Liam is born to fulfill that.
Eventually he does. In the end of Series 4 which was quite rushed they began an accelerated plot that the Taelons were all awakened from their energy saving slumber by the “Oracle of the Kimera” which is Liam. Liam now has 1 month to find a solution or the Taelons will all die, and humanity wont be far behind. Now one thing that was never explained is this: Its very clearly said that BOTH Taelons and Humans are doomed without each other.
Either way, in the final 2 episodes a secret underground regneration chamber is found, and Liam reunites both Taelon and Jaridian and uses himself as a Unifying field. Series shoulda been over right there.
From there they started Series 5. And while I wont continue to rant against it. They reintroduce a new Atavus race and Jayne turns into Tomb Raider to save the Earth.
I will say this though, the final episode of series 5 was quite incredible, and Im glad Liam came back.