![]() Scarlett and real Abby arrive at the crypt entrance a moment before Dmitri and his two story-anemic hench. He and Paul (Dmitri) Johansson directed the last four episodes between them and two of those were excellent. BTW, I’m not knocking Jonathan (Axel) Scarfe’s direction of this hot mess. She tells Abby to give the Dark One’s blood to Van, wherever she is, which is not in this finale. Second, there’s a “Dark One.” Lesson of a terrible finale: You can’t introduce new information or ask new questions when you have a horrible history of not paying them off.Ībby wants Scarlett to take the vile of blood but Scarlett isn’t interested. This is two meaningless plot points in one. Abby tells Scarlett how she was given a vile of “The Dark One’s” blood after her mother was killed by the elders. They also suffer hallucinations but not fear based, more like gentle flashbacks of youth. The real Abby is actually colder than the fake Abby from the Mountain Lab Lair. We do care about Scarlett, she’s a great character but this is only our second episode with the real Abby. She’s an unidentifiable extra in the hench army.īy now, Scarlett and Abby reach the opening of the cave. Interesting? Maybe, but again, nobody cares about Sister. When she refuses, the priest pours oil on her and sets her on fire. The Sister is being menaced into converting to some unknown religion. While this scene is mildly interesting and powered by a great performance, nobody cares about Scab or his backstory. The bullies lock Scott/Scab in a closet, but he’s claustrophobic. Scab’s scene was a little more interesting, he gets bullied at work for crossing the picket line. In case this scene was written as a first class yawn it was filmed or filtered (red) in the least imaginative way possible. To dampen his passion, he takes de Sade’s full menu of punishment. Dmitri already has the hots for his sister, Antanasia, but she’s still too young for his tastes to ruin. Don’t look for a thematic link other than in all three flashbacks they’re still human. Also, he has the only key so… Dmitri, Scab, and Sister enter the maze of cave tunnels and soon begin hallucinations from their past. Only three? Someone had to point out the absurdity of that line, two other people essential to the plot are on their way.ĭmitri gets to the cave entrance first. Then she tells Dmitri only three can go with him and she kills the rest of his team. The Oracle forces Dmitri to his knees (a meaningless gesture in both plot and character) and scars him with a mystical compass to guide him to the Elder’s Crypt. He doesn’t want to kneel for her, Dmitri doesn’t think she’s worthy. “This might be authentic” notes Kred, “but it’s a terrible idea for a race.” Fire the guy that thought the slow race was a good idea. Scarlett and Abby are slow moving up the mountain because of the thinning air. Scarlett and her real mother, Abigail (Abby) on one team verses Dmitri’s team on the other. This finale is, in essence, a race to the top of Elder Crypt mountain. Ridiculous call by any professional in the business. No Van, Doc, Julius, Axel, or Mohamad an entire line up of beloved characters were a no show. Here it is SyFy, fire the guy that thought Kred was wrong and they would get away with this. I assume at least one person pointed this out, we’ll call this unknown storyteller “Kred.” Kred noted we should do more with Van this episode. Van Helsing is only in the final shot, she’s asleep under a sheet. ![]() The first big mistake is there was only one moderately favorite character in the finale. Unfortunately, they produced, edited, and aired this embarrassment. Van Helsing would have been better served by not airing the episode and generating some mystery behind its vanishing. It’s much closer to taking a slow cowardly knee to run out the clock. Van Helsing wraps its much improved second season with a weak finale in “Black Days.” I find it impossible to believe that real humans looked at “Black Days” on paper and thought, “Nailed it, this is going to be great.” It isn’t even a brave Hail Mary. ![]()
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