Season 10 Episode 4
They manage to get ingested by some kind of space beast, all except Cheryl/Carol in the fighter.
The story was fine, but pretty much forgettable.
Anyone find anything noteworthy in this one?
No not much at all, if this was a live action show I'd consider it a bottle episode so they could save money to spend big on another episode down the track, but it isn't so yeah could be skipped really (unless at some point down the track it comes into play somehow).
shareYeah, that would be cool. Kind of surprising that they're so back to episodic this season (rather than serialized).
Wonder if he is trying to hit all the most popular tropes there are... last time it was gladiators in the arena, this time it's sort of like Fantastic Voyage... what's next, some kind of robots like the Daleks or Cybermen?
My guess is it will remain episodic seeing as the overall theme of it is based on the British/Italian Space 1999 TV show and maybe that was the joke of the episode that those shows do nothing bottle episodes so they did as well. So yeah it probably is following some tropes that have been around and as Space 1999 was Gerry Anderson then Fireball XL5, Stingray and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons may play apart (not so much Thunderbirds). Then again it's likely all SciFi of a certain type is being used, as even with Star Trek TOS Kirk fought in a Gladiator type scenario in quite a few episodes.
Plus given that Adam Reed said this was his last season and in 9 Archer fell into a Volcano and woke up in this Spaceship, the overall arc may just be Archer waking from his coma.
Hmm, let's see...
- Bread & Circuses
- The Gamesters of Triskelion
- Amok Time
- Arena, sort of
Can you think of any others?
Yeah, though previous seasons of Archer did have a through story line, so this kind of feels like going backwards.