Review: Exile



I actually really liked this episode. It was diverting. It didn't employ any odd-speed film, thus not giving me a headache. Jon is becoming Human again, evidenced by his excitement over T'Pol's hypothesis of a second anomaly-creating sphere and playing father-figure to Hoshi. Malcolm got to play Hoshi's big brother, a role I've always suspected he'd take on. He was very good about not insinuating that she was going crazy and sharing tales of his own recent bouts of paranoia. The bit where Trip 'loses' the shuttlepod (see above photo) had me chortling with glee. I loved his line about needing to spend more time in the armoury as he and Jon are firing at the pod's thruster and missing.

On the other hand... Jon seemed awfully credulous when Hoshi came to him with her telepathic friend's offer of help. Maybe there was a lot more to that conversation (like some sort of concurrance from Phlox), but after her other "issues" earlier, I would have been insisting that she be given some powerful anti-psychotics. (After all, the way she was describing her experiences, I would have had her pegged for a descent into schizophrenia.) And what was up with the skimpy little dresses she took to wear during her stay with her telepathic stalker? One: the house is on a cold, snowy mountain top, with the wind howling outside. It made me cold just looking at her, & I was wearing a turtleneck sweater at the time. Two: the girl was obviously very uncomfortable in this guy's presence. Why, oh why would she take revealing dresses with her rather than nice, covering, comforting uniforms?? Clothing makes great emotional armour, and I can't imagine that she would be feeling anything other than vulnerable in those sun dresses. A uniform might have helped her feel a little more in control.

I was glad to see that Hoshi was being aware enough to realise that the Archer who told her he wanted her to stay behind wasn't really Archer. Even if Jon is becoming more Human these days, he was still smiling too much. Very suspicious. She also had enough sense to threaten the guy's focus stone, although, it seemed rather incautious of him to not realise that she might threaten it. (Speaking of the stone... what was the deal with the images Hoshi "saw" using it? Most of them would have been from her own memory; how is this supposed to impress us with its power?)

On the T/R-shipper front, Trip and Malcolm spent yet another entire episode apart. Not once were the boys on screen together. This is getting depressing. I need some sort of delicious interaction between them to get me through and to feed the bunnies with! ::sigh::

~RB





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