Episode Report Card Erin: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Bitch Is Back
By Erin | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.01.2003
It's different from the first Best Girl Fight Ever in many ways, but primarily in the way that it SUCKS. It's dark, grainy, too fast, the shots are too close up and not spaced far enough apart; I mean, I'm no resident expert, but I have seen The Matrix and The Matrix: Reloaded and Kill Bill and several John Woo films and even though none of these films might be considered art, they certainly contain some seriously kick-ass fight sequences, and not a single one of them could be considered to be as assy as this Worst Girl Fight Ever.
There's punching. There's kicking. There are bad sped-up film moments. But, thankfully, there's no extended slo-mo and the scene's over relatively quickly. Syd gets her gun and shoots Francinator down. What, one bullet? Three didn't kill her, Syd! What makes you think ONE will? God. GOD. Vaughn walks up and checks to see if Syd's okay, then runs over and retrieves the missile-launching device from Francinator's jacket. Syd gets on the horn to Dix and informs him that she wasn't able to deliver him a dead Francinator. Dix takes it remarkably well. Syd tells him that Francinator's on her way to the hospital in a civilian ambulance. They ring off.
Vaughn's outside, questioning some guard. The dude informs him that the ambulance never made it to the hospital, even though it left twenty minutes ago. Syd runs up and asks Vaughn if he remembers whether the Rambaldi book contained a formula for a medication. He doesn't. "We've gotta find that ambulance," says Syd. Next thing we know, we're riding along with Syd and Vaughn and some local authorities. They stop when they come upon the ambulance overturned and some dead bodies lying outside it. Syd checks out the interior of the ambulance, and it's been ripped apart; all the emergency guys are dead. Vaughn's all, this makes no sense! If Francinator had backup, they would have shown at the hotel! Syd's all, I don't think she needed backup, dude. "I think she did this herself," says Syd. "Paramedic said she barely had a pulse!" he responds. "She did this, Vaughn," says Syd. "She did this."
Apparently, Francinator is now an evil super-anti-hero. Great. Because this show wasn't STARVING FOR REALISM OR ANYTHING.