Servalan comes up with a plan to destroy the Auron race of which Cally belongs to . She captures a pilot , has him infected with a virus and lets him return to the Planet Auron where he infects the rest of the planet who send a distress call requesting help
This is an episode that had potential but the potential is never fully realised . Perhaps one aspect is that it resembles a certain film that was released a couple of years earlier based on an Ira Leven novel that saw Laurence Oliveir battle Josef Mengele played by Gregory Peck and a film that is memorable for all the wrong reasons . It's also yet another episode where Servalan is at the forefront of a diabolical scheme and micromanages every single detail .. This concept of Servalan figuring so prominently is one of the few fundamental flaws of the show because it lacks any sort of internal logic . Did Hitler have to visit the visit the Eastern front every time there was a battle? . Did Hilary Clinton have to visit Pakistan to take part on the raid of on Osama Bin Laden ? Does a scientist have to travel halfway round the world and administer a vaccine to third world children ? The overuse of the series arch-villain undermines her
As in the following and preceding episode Children Of Aron is again character-centric and goes in to detail of Cally and the humanoid race she originates from . I've never been a big fan of Cally and most of the impact that the episode might have had is that as a character piece for Cally it's undermined by a superb story featuring her a couple of episodes later
This is an episode that had potential but the potential is never fully realised . Perhaps one aspect is that it resembles a certain film that was released a couple of years earlier based on an Ira Leven novel that saw Laurence Oliveir battle Josef Mengele played by Gregory Peck and a film that is memorable for all the wrong reasons . It's also yet another episode where Servalan is at the forefront of a diabolical scheme and micromanages every single detail .. This concept of Servalan figuring so prominently is one of the few fundamental flaws of the show because it lacks any sort of internal logic . Did Hitler have to visit the visit the Eastern front every time there was a battle? . Did Hilary Clinton have to visit Pakistan to take part on the raid of on Osama Bin Laden ? Does a scientist have to travel halfway round the world and administer a vaccine to third world children ? The overuse of the series arch-villain undermines her
As in the following and preceding episode Children Of Aron is again character-centric and goes in to detail of Cally and the humanoid race she originates from . I've never been a big fan of Cally and most of the impact that the episode might have had is that as a character piece for Cally it's undermined by a superb story featuring her a couple of episodes later