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On a rescue mission, Cleo (Jennifer Sky), Sarge (Victoria Pratt)
& Hel (Gina Torres) land in some holographic world filled with
suburbian America's Christmas-kitsch - luckily though, the snowy
surroundings doesn't keep the girls from being scantily clad. Once
there, they find one of the team to be rescued dead, the other one,
still alive, tells them what's ssupposed to be pretty terrible. The
killer - a betrayer, meaning an android actually fighting on the
side of the big bad robots (bailies) but in disguise - is the
father (Latham Gaines) of a nuclear family. Of course, Hel & Sarge
still kill him, but not without second-guessing. In the end though, the
somewhat downbeat finale is destroyed by Hel talking to the betrayer's
wife & daughter, delivering bullshit like "... you have to
remember him for the man he was", finally re-establishing the
family values of 50's America the story was actually - if only a bit -
second-guessing. The schmaltzy ending does actually ruin
everything this episode has tried to accomplish - which wasn't that much
in the first place. But also, the sets were pretty bad from the
beginning, a celebration of repressed 50's style suburban America, circa
Christmas-time, which looks really pitiful from the beginning on, &
it's hard to understand why anybody would actually want to live there
(to make matters worse, they even do the Macarena there), &
which is even made worse by Gina Torres' final speech about love,
do the right thing & similar terrible stuff that was already
terribly out of date in 2000 - one wonders how out of date it would be in
2525. Also, Jennifer Sky's naivity & squealing as the lead character
is getting more annoying each episode. |