Episode Report Card Jacob: A | 366 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT A Human Reaction
By Jacob | Season 1 | Episode 16 | Aired on 1999.08.20
The light fades, and the Ancient is revealed. Doesn't really matter what it looks like, because this is a crappy, scrappy sci-fi show, but it's about the same height as a man, kind of like a bug, kind of like a rabbit. Kind of like a lowly crustacean. "Many of us hope that Earth might be our welcoming place. If all people were like you, maybe it could be. But they're not. In your memory, we saw millions of Wilsons, and Cobbs. It also lead us to a familiar conclusion. The highest life form on the planet is also the most destructive. And your humans would kill us." John looks up a moment into an Ancient's eyes, into the fading light there. "So what will you do now?" he asks. "What we've done since before I was hatched," says the Ancient. "We continue searching for a home." John turns to leave, still smarting: "So will I." The Ancient calls him back, offering the ring and chain, already a fetish to the father, now a symbol of so much more. Of the puzzle of everything. "Thanks," says John, and takes it. He opens the door, the ocean roars. "Maybe we'll meet again one day, John," says Ancient Jack, and we freeze, right back at The Truman Show, a boy who has become a man, caught on the edge of whatever the hell comes next, John limned by ocean, standing in the shadow of that last doorway into the real story, which is just now beginning. "Maybe." But you and I both know this shit was a cakewalk compared to what will happen then.