Recap and Review
The finale opens with Marcus showing Krista around the newly built Conclave location while Blade and Shen are busy in their lair setting up a Conclave infiltration operation. Unfortunately for our good guys, Chase arrives with a squad of gun-wielding vampires and/or familiars. Before Shen can set off the auto destruct system he's knocked unconcious. Blade is able to set off the explosives but not until after Chase takes off with Shen.
Back at Marcus' office, Krista is instructed to torture Shen in an effort to pry information out of him. Knowing she has no choice, Krista proceeds to pull off Shen's fingernails one by one. When Marcus asks her to escalate the pain, she moves in on Shen and acts as if she's breaking his fingers, but breaks her own instead - seemingly fooling Marcus and also giving her the chance to slip Shen a blade to escape with.
Luckily for Shen, it's not long before Marcus and Krista are called away, giving him the opportunity to break out. After taking out a rather large vampire guard and sneaking by some other Chthon underlings, he's able to escape and meet back up with Blade, whose just gotten back from obtaining the key to the Conclave (the architect's eyeball). The two head off to the Pure Blood meeting place to make sure Marcus is able to pull off his plans.
Meanwhile, Marcus, Krista, and Chase are called on to present the Aurora vaccine to the Pure Blood council. Marcus gives a brief little speech before revealing his true intentions. Unfortunately for our smooth talking villain, he was betrayed by Chase and the Pure Blood poison fails to be released. We learn that she really was working with Charlotte and that Charlotte either called her or the Pure Blood "overlord" (apparently the head of the Chthon council) to let them know of Marcus' plans.
With Marcus' plans bust, Chase grabs Krista and the overlord attacks Marcus. In hero fashion, Blade bursts in with the Pure Blood poison, releasing it on the council members just in time. Krista takes the opportunity to break free from Chase while Marcus grabs the Chthon sacred sword to fight Blade - setting up two much anticipated battles.
The Krista versus Chase fight was kind of weak, though it ended spectacularly with Krista pushing Chase down the opening of a spiral staircase (the stairs went down several floors). Luckily the Blade/Marcus fight was much more entertaining with acrobatics and some decent swordplay. Blade does eventually get the upper hand, but before he can plunge his sword into Marcus, Krista shouts out distracting him. This is also timed with Shen entering with gun blazing. He hits Krista in the shoulder which causes Marcus to jump to her and protect her while fleeing.
While that could have been the ending, we were given a special treat - one more scene with Marcus and Krista at the burned down Blade lair. Marcus lets Krista know that he has some sort of informant that led him to Blade's base of operations. He then grabs her, shows his fangs, and asks her how long she's been working with Blade... the end.
Notable Scenes
- Krista pulling off Shen's fingernails.
- Krista breaking her own fingers.
- Marcus' swordfighting.
Closing ThoughtsThe poll two weeks ago hit the nail on the head - predicting a few casualties right before both Charlotte and Collins were sent to the big TV in the sky. This last poll asked for opinions on which minor character might make it back for the finale. Unlike the previous poll, this week's missed completely as none of those characters were brought in to wrap things up. But you know what? While I was hoping for Frederick or perhaps Cain to make an appearance, I really didn't miss them after experiencing this unbelievably great season ending finale.
There's just so much I could go into, but since it'd end up being a billion pages, I'll try to touch on only key points.
First, Chase's betrayal of Marcus was awesome. I love how they did it as it didn't come off as too cheesy or forced. Like many, I had a feeling she might turn on her man, and I really did enjoy how they pulled it off. I also am glad that it looks like she survived the finale. Hell, I'm glad that all our recurring characters survived the finale. Many thought Chase was ash and I'm glad those that thought that were wrong.
Marcus finally came out and showed that he knew about Krista, though it almost seemed like that was a new revelation for him. If he really does have an informant like he says, wouldn't he know how long Krista was working with Blade? If so, the season likely wouldn't have ended with him asking her how long she's been with Blade. Hmm... His informant is likely a new development, so perhaps that's why he doesn't know.
Speaking of his informant, I wonder who it is. Normally the informant would end up being a twist like Shen or something, but that wouldn't work here. Shen can't be the informant because there would be plot holes all over the damn place, not to mention that Marcus would then definitely know when Krista started working with Blade. That doesn't really leave us with anybody else as the informant, except for maybe the scientist lady that helped Blade and Shen determine what the liquid was. I just don't know.
So where does that leave us? Marcus is now a rogue vampire with no allies (now that he's outted Krista). He's apparently comfortable having his Pure Blood "atomic bomb" as leverage and seems to think he'll easily be able to become the head of Chthon with that lone power. Krista is clearly in trouble, though she'll obviously either escape Marcus or he'll let her go. Her role will forever be changed since Marcus knows her intentions. Blade and Shen's plans were to continue using Krista all the way up the vampire food chain, but with Marcus being onto their plans, they may have to take a more "head on" approach to their dealings with the vampires. There's also the informant that's an unknown as well as the entire vampire society to likely break into some sort of civil war or at least a civil
unrest. There's just so much to look forward to and I'm sure they've got even more planned.
Well, I see that I've already filled up the page quite a bit so I'll cut it off here. Let me just say once again how awesome the finale was and how incredible the season was as a whole. Like I said in an earlier post, I'll still be adding much more to the site so don't go thinking this place will be in hybernation mode or anything. I'll definitely be posting any news on a (hopeful) second season when I see it. I'll also be continuing the weekly poll, which means there will be one tomorrow (Thursday) sometime. As always, feel free to discuss the episode in the comments below - I'm sure everybody has a lot to talk about!
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