With the warehouse destroyed, Jinks, H G, and Mrs. Fredric dead, and pandora’s box broken open (quite literally) the world is plunged into despair as there is no hope left in the world. With the use of the pocket watch James Macpherson left behind, the agents must travel to France and then the Vatican, and sacrifice even more to put things right again.
Artifacts in this Episode:
Duarte Barbosa’s Pocket Watch (Formerly thought of as James Macpherson’s) – A stopwatch that counts down the time in which Magellan’s astrolabe can be used, also a guide to the astrolabe’s pieces.
Pithos/Pandora’s Box – Contained hope, and as it is destroyed, so is hope destroyed.
Ferdinand Magellan’s Astrolabe – Erases time for 24 hours. Comes with an evil of their own creation that will follow the user the rest of their life.
Mahatma Ghandi’s Dhoti – Woven during Ghandi’s fast for non-violence, the garment is embued with pure peace.
My Thoughts:
I’m so happy they came up with something useful for that dang football. It was cute in the beginning and then it sort of got lost for me and I’m just tickled that it came back with a bigger purpose. Why they’d decide to use a football that circumnavigates the world as an artifact tracker, I don’t know, but I do find it quite wonderful.
There’s really no threat with this episode… I mean, it’s the first episode in the new series, so you know that everyone who dies in it is going to come back to life thanks to the astrolabe… I mean, they kill off Pete for christ’s sake. The guy who sees the world going to pieces and still has time to make jokes about Artie singing his fur.
Brent Spiner’s character was obviously going to reappear at some point. He’s too big of a name in the geek-verse to have on screen for a minute and a half and then be done with it. So I was waiting for him to pop back up.
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