(Also, I was trying to keep track of the insane amount of exposition that was being hurdled at me with every line of dialogue.)īut he does have that psychotic white male look which makes it more believable that he would be the one to start shooting up people in the Badlands, I guess. I forgot to mention him in my other reviews because, well, he’s not that memorable. Not because of the weapon itself (anyone who’s seen Temple of Doom knows that guns can beat swords rather easily) but because of the character who the writers chose to find it.Įli is a character whose name isn’t on the tip of anyone’s tongue right now, as he was introduced less than a handful of episodes ago. It was a confusing note to end on for me. It didn’t when I first watched this episode. He falls to his knees and digs into the mud with his already soiled hands, as if he knows what is buried there, the beacon of insidiousness that the Master spoke of: a gun.

After this, she asks him to follow her because “his journey has just begun”.ĭirectly after this, we cut to a scene where Eli (Thom Ashley) wanders across what remains of the Meridian Chamber, lost in the aftermath of the great battle. But she warns him that the badlands won’t be the same when he returns, and that an evil force more dangerous than any human has been dug up. There, she tells him that his gift had been activated in the final moments of his death, therefore he has another chance to meet his son Henry. The Master meets Sunny’s spirit in the realm between life and death. But as we learn in the episode’s brief and enigmatic coda, he just might have another shot at this mortal coil after all. Sunny’s story, too, is over…or so we thought.

And yet, there’s this haunting sense of abruptness that hangs over “Seven Strike as One”, a sense of unfinished business that exists just so the show can live on in your imagination.

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