Episode Report Card Demian: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Something Better Change
By Demian | Season 7 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.22.2005
Incidentally, and relevant to I'm Not Candy's obvious unease in actually dealing with the human beings he claims he wants to help, have I ever noted that the Avatars' official names are Alpha (I'm Not Candy), Beta (Uniqua), and Gamma (No Name)? Probably not, because No Name's had so little screen time up to this point that it didn't really make sense until this episode. I'm Not Candy's clearly the eldest of the group and thus likely has a distrust of humanity that may very well derive from said humanity, oh, trying to kill him for the last five thousand years. No Name, with his far kinder disposition, is apparently much more of a recent convert to the cause, and Uniqua falls somewhere in between. I suppose they didn't press the point until now because longtime viewers of this show would naturally wonder where Tony Todd fits into the whole scheme of things. Before, of course, wondering why the hell Candyman hasn't involved himself at all in this, the Avatars' grandest scheme for the planet. Nevertheless, it's probably to the credit of the actors involved that the differences between the Collective's individual members are so readily identifiable, and that those differences make sense. It also means I shall be referring to Brian Krause's character as "Dolta" for the remainder of this storyline. Hee.
Hell. A trio of Celerity Demons explode into Zankou's chamber. Secretly INSANE Brody realizes who they are and screams, "Murderers!" as he charges over to, er, scratch and claw at their faces, or something, because you know a puny little human like him won't be able to do much more than that. Idiot. One of Zankou's henchdemons intercepts Brody before he makes it halfway across the dirt, however, and as Brody struggles manfully with the henchdemon, the leftmost Celerity Demon buhs, "What is this?" "This is his revenge," the center Celerity Demon announces before morphing into Zankou form and demolishing the Celerity Demons with a couple of Flaming Balls Of Death. Brody -- near tears, like, what a little bitch -- pushes himself away from the henchdemon and gapes. "They were the ones who did it, weren't they?" Zankou asks, crossing to Brody once the Celerity Demons have vanished in gouts of flame with their howls of anguish echoing throughout the chamber. Zankou takes Brody's tight-lipped silence as confirmation that, yes, those were the nasty men who offed his Ma and Pa. "You owe me for doing something you could never have done without me," Zankou states with a sly grin spreading across his face, "and you will repay me by doing something I can't do without you." Zankou stalks away as Brody looks weepy and conflicted. Whatever, you tool.