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I've been watching but I've been trying to cleanse my brain with
episodes of Mr. T and Tina. Fine. I'll post while the snark is fresh.

Brice (Richard Fleeshman) isn't sexually harassed by the women this
week, but ag boy recounts his sexual conquests to what's her name, the anti-Eastern Federation intelligence officer.

Ag boy is happier to be finally doing something useful, finding a
loose connection in the irrigation system, and solves the mystery of
why so many potatoes have been planted by consuming mass quantites of
wodka. He drinks enough till he has the guts to give Alicia a flower but
not enough to kiss her. She takes the initiative. Mysteriously, neither
one is wearing glasses.

Speaking as a human being experiencing nearsightedness, you can't just
ditch the glasses. It doesn't work like that.

Brice can't identify a pilot he trained with, upping suspicion that he's
EF. But he's covering up something, like he blew up flight school. Eva
is also under suspicion. One of the two intelligence officers simply
wants to shoot first and ask questions later.

Eva decrypts records from Ark Three. Why were they encrypted as they
were just newspaper articles? They learn that other trillionaires had
escape Earth space programs and maybe something about planets they were
headed toward.

In the main story, they get a distress call from Ark Eight, an ark they
never believed had launched due to the fall of the GSA. Somehow they
receive the signal whilst in hyperspace; this isn't explained. So they
drop out. Sharon (Christie Burke) insists on leading the mission because
her cloned self was built to withstand harsh environments IN SPACE! But
this is a planet with extremely high radiation!

They crashed two weeks ago but are expected to be able to survive merely
a week! No one is affected by radiation sickness. They simply wear their
same costumes, nothing else required for radiation protocols.

They are looking for where survivors took shelter and are watched by two
groups of people. Suddenly, we are inside what I guess is Ark Eight.
It's like a scene was skipped.

There are no astronauts. Instead, everybody is a clone. Unlike Sharon,
none were trained for space flight but somehow they hooked up with those trained for space flight but we never see them as they are all dead.

See, they brought on board evil schizophrenic Third Generation clones.
Now, the not-murdery clones (second generation) said they treated the
evil clones as human beings, but they went all murdery, sabotaged the
ship, forced the crash, and killed everybody useful. Not necessarily in
that order.

Sharon, who has a shortage of evil murderyu people who cannot control
their emotions, wants more! She wants to bring all of the Third Generation clones on board. In a conference later in the episode, Dr. Kabir
claims to have the ability to correct the genetic flaw that creates the
evil, because of course a ship's medbay is fully equipped for gene
therapy. No one discusses that they'll still be murdery impulsive two
year olds in adult bodies. Maybe they can do instant education?

Spencer learns he's Seven of Nine, er, Third of Four. There's another
him who had been told that Spencer didn't survive! He refuses to accept
that he's a clone, and it takes him till a late scene in the episode
to wonder if his parents knew the truth about him, even though he found
a mysterious scar that indicated surgery to remove the code from the
heel of his foot that allowed the clonemasters to tell them apart.

Third Generation clones sabotaged Ark One! Brice, with no tools, sticks
both hands inside an access panel to do I have no idea what, nor do I understand how a pilot knows how to maintain the shuttle. Without taking
his shirt off even once, Brice repairs the damage.

Looking around, Felix (I think) wants to grab a spare FTL engine but
other Spencer from Ark Eight insists it's rigged to blow up. Sharon
insists they have codes to disarm it. (I have no idea what she's talking about.) He claims it can't be done without power. Sharon stops arguing.

They are fighting Third Gens inside and Third Gens are clinging outside
in a scene I recall from Star Trek with Spock commanding a landing
craft.

To prevent Sharon from bring at least thirty more (she's brought two)
murdery Third Gens on board, someone from Ark One sent a signal to blow
up Ark Eight so the clones can't use it to escape, and the explosion
was big enough to kill them anyway.

Gee. I wonder who did that.

Kelly (Samantha Glassner) gets the bomb removed from her brain. After
the Ark Three doctor cloaed the incision, Dr. Kabir declares that they
just finished the hard part. Uh, no, lady, the brain surgery without
setting off the bomb was the hard part, not closing the surgical site.

Kelly keeps screwing around with the device to control her implants
that she was given, which I think she was screwing around with WHILE the
bomb was still in her brain. Idiot. She can't figure it out, so she lets
Trust play with it, completely oblivious to Trust still wants to kill
her in revenge and you've just given him the means to do so.

Sharon and Spencer fight about Trust's who-must-fuck-whom list, but we
still don't find out who is on it nor who got paired up with Alexandra
Daddario to save humanity without in breeding.

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Let's go Brandon!


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