The Journey Home

The Journey Home
This is it.  The end of the epic.  Well, the first season, anyway. 

The Star Force loads the Cosmo DNA on the Argo, leave Iscandar for Earth, and bid farewell to Alex Wildstar and Starsha.  The crew works to assemble the Cosmo DNA so they can use it as soon as they land.

On the bridge, Wildstar and Venture admire the home galaxy from afar.  Homer cheers--they can contact Earth.  Earth command contacts them, and they tell them they have the Cosmo DNA, but that Avatar is ill from radiation sickness.

In Avatar's quarters, Dr. Zane examines the captain.  Avatar tells him of a dream he had of the Earth.  Zane assures him that they'll reach the Earth.  Venture and Wildstar anticipate one final jump to Earth.  Venture says it's lonely without the Gamilons at every step.

Oh, Venture, you had to say it.  Desslok is closing in on them in a ship of his own.  He prepares to fire the Desslok cannon, but the Argo warps just as he fires.  Desslok orders his crew to jump after them.

The Argo warps into their home solar system--and Desslok's ship warps into the same spatial coordinates and they collide.  Desslok orders his crew to prepare for boarding, and unleashes radioactive "sleeping" gas.  Orion and the survivors of the engineering crew get helmets on and try to hold off the boarding party, but they get past them.  Orion notifies the bridges crew, but the boarders are relying on the gas.  Wildstar comes face to, um, helmet with Desslok.  As the gas slowly fills the ship, Desslok taunts Wildstar.

Venture issues a warning to the remaining crew about the gas.  Nova rushes from sickbay to the Cosmo DNA.  Sandor protests--it hasn't been tested yet.  As the gas begins to overcome Sandor, she tells him to walk her through the process from the control room.  Just as she's engulfed by the radioactive gas, she starts the machine.

The gas is cleared from the ship, but Nova collapses.

Desslok and his boarding party are driven off of the Argo by the cleaned air.  They disengage from the Argo and jump away, vowing to return.  Sandor tells Wildstar about Nova, and then goes to find Dr. Zane.  Wildstar has a heroic blue-screen-of-death over Nova's unconscous form. 

Wildstar is in Avatar's quarters, beginning to lose hope that Nova will recover.  Avatar gives him a lecture on the quality and meaning of hope. 

They finally reach the Earth, and the surviving crew gathers at the observation deck to celebrate.  Wildstar mopes through the joyous throng, brooding over Nova.  he enters sickbay and caresses Nova's face.  Wildstar picks her up and carries her to the observation deck.  They had a good opportunity for a series of flashbacks while Wildstar has a monologue about how he's fallen in love with Nova, but it doesn't happen.  He carries her out onto the bridge.  The crew turns and watches, and they give Wildstar encouragement. 

Man, this scene is rough.

The Gamilons have closed in behind the Argo again.  Desslok prepares the cannon and fires.  Eager detects the energy surge and Venture evades.  They're not going to make it when Sandor flicks a switch and the ship glows white.  The energy bolt strikes the Argo--and is deflected back at Desslok.  Desslok watches in dismay as he's consumed by flames.

Sandor explains that he's just finished a reflecting force-field based on the Gamilon reflex cannon.  Venture pilots them to Earth.

Avatar asks Dr. Zane to leave him alone for a while.  Zane leaves reluctantly.  Dammit, he's going to die RIGHT NOW, isn't he?  He takes out a picture of his family.  He apologizes to the Earth that he won't live to see it green again.

God, I love this show--BUT IT FUCKING SUCKS.

Whew.  Okay.  I'm all right now.  Yeah, I know there's some internet dipshit right now who's going, "Gawd, you could see this coming from a mile away."  Fuck you, dipshit.  I knew it was happening.  It was just really well executed.  So piss off.

Wildstar takes Nova from the bridge to Dr. Zane when she regains consciousness.  Yes, dipshit, you knew that was happening, too.  Congratulations for winning anime.  Fuck you.  Wildstar and Nova do a little dance around the bridge and the Argo finally returns to Earth.