Saturday, September 14, 2019

The Outpost, “The Only Way”, Review!

Garrett is free, Janzo was trying to detox him, but now he is intent on his mission to kidnap Gwynn!  Night, he climbs the walls of The Outpost to scale its rooftops, and enter Gwynn’s room.  He takes out his sword, but sees flashes of Gwynn saying, “Garret, come back to me.”  Garrett again sees the portrait of a true princess with a “misshapen face.”  He takes out a portrait and finds Gwynn’s actual face.  He takes out his sword, but Gwynn wakes in time to stop him.  In the misty forest, Zed and Talon have reached a cave.  They entered the darkened cave, Talon takes out the amulet which glows and lights a path.  Constellations glow on the wall.  Zed says he spent his life there looking at the stars before his mother died and he was trapped in the world of dust.  Zed activates a stone tablet that rises up from the floor.  At The Outpost, Garrett explains about the portrait, and then remembers killing his father.  He says The Three are waiting for Garret to finish his task before bringing in their army.  Gwynn tells the guards that Garret is not a prisoner.  Alone, they kiss, this seems sudden.  I wonder why Janzo is not there to explain his part.  

THE OUTPOST -- “The Only Way” -- IMOGEN WATERHOUSE -- Aleksander Letic/NBCU International -- © 2019 Outpost TV LLC. Courtesy of Electric Entertainment.

At the stone tablet, Zed searches around it, but finds only stone.  Talon finds one of the enclosures around the tablet, Zed uses his dagger to free the hole, something strikes his finger.  The strange power, asterkinj, that is similar to Talon’s portal opening flows to his forehead.  Later, they walk the forest, he says it is the same as Talon’s, but with some other power.  There are seven of them.  Talon tries to explain how she uses it.  At the camp of Milas, Gwynn looks at the battlement.  They plan on reaching Milas.  Night, at the tavern, Janzo panics at the arrival of Garrett.  He examines Garrett who wants to find Talon.  Janzo tells Garrett that she went to the shrine.  He brings up Talon’s Blackblood ally.  Garrett leaves and Brogan, dressed like in a bad theater play on royalty, brings in some colipsum.  Janzo follows him.  He appears at the Mistress with the coin from the drug exchange.  Janzo confronts the Mistress who rages at Brogan. Janzo discovers that his mother is making colipsum.  He is about to tell Gwynn about the colipsum, but of course the Mistress has the solution to save The Outpost.  Using colipsum to turn Milas’ army into Plaguelings!  This is an old and savage tactic, diseased corpses were thrown at armies and wells were poisoned, it is kinda stunning to see that tactic used here.  

Janzo tells Gwynn about the Mistress’ colipsum operation.  She says that Gwynn should release the Plaguelings with the army addicted to colipsum.  Gwynn wants a cure.  Naya has reached the Citadel and wants to deliver her report to Dred.  She enters the cells and tries to get her family from Dred.  He says he killed them.  Dred says that the army is about to attack The Outpost.  She stabs him with a dagger!  Everit Dred collapses in his cell.  Is this the end of Dred or can The Three revive him?  At The Outpost, Garrett meets with Tobin, and he wants him to break the siege.  Garrett is on the battlement with the Mistress and Gwynn.  Then, the Plaguelings are released attacking the camp!  We haven’t seen a Plagueling attack in some time.  Milas wakes up to fight with a Plagueling.  Morning, Talon wakes up next to Zed, there are Prime Order soldiers in a camp nearby.  Zed mentally commands a soldier to put his hand in the fire!  Later, Zed wants to return to the ruins with Talon.  She wants permission from Gwynn.  Tobin and Gwynn ride out to check on the camp.  Tobin draws his sword and tells Gwynn he is looking for Milas.  He finds him infected by a Plagueling, but is able to stab it with a dagger.  A Plagueling attack, shouldn’t they have saved them for the Prime Order?, is brutal even for the threat of Milas.  

THE OUTPOST -- “The Only Way” -- AARON FONTAINE, IMOGEN WATERHOUSE -- Aleksander Letic/NBCU International -- © 2019 Outpost TV LLC. Courtesy of Electric Entertainment.

Tobin drags out his body and then declares that he has command of the survivors. Gwynn pledges that she will help the infected.  Janzo examines the survivors and separates the infected. Gwynn of course needs more than the remaining survivors to fight the Prime Order.  Garrett is about to leave with the breaking of the siege.  He sees Gwynn holding hands with Tobin and then rides away.  Janzo is busy working on a cure.  The Mistress enters angry that Janzo didn’t give her an apology.  She doesn’t notice that the Plagueling is close to her and bites her.  Janzo is worried since his mother was taking Colipsum.  He sees the woman who recovered from the Plagueling.  She tells him that they had tungrun root.  He works on the cure with help from the Mistress.  The infected man leaps up and then collapses.  A Greyskin is about to crush a sleeping Talon with a rock, but Zed commands it to stop.  She wakes up and stabs the Greyskin.  It is great to see the Greyskin even if a brief appearance.  For some reason, Talon doesn’t feel trust when Zed just saved her life.  He asks Talon to open the portal to release her people.  Zed tries to use the asterkinj, but it fails to work on Talon.  Her motivation doesn’t seem clear.  It took Talon some time to get familiar with her power and she expects Zed to instantly do so and confide in her.  

Three Daggers out of Five! 


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