Time for lots and lots and lots of Jackson drama
Starting with him and Abe finding his mother – whose knew
super powers make lions afraid of her – and Jackson decide, since he made no
plans at all – to talk his raging predator mother down.
Instead she tries to eat Abe. The only choice Jackson has
is to shoot his mother,
They get him to the super-hero-head-quarter-plane to
confirm that, yes, she was injected by Jackson’s evil dad, just like Jackson
Ha, no, MOOOOORE angst. Because Jackson’s dad didn’t
inject his mother. Abe did. Abe was paid by Richard Oz to inject Elizabeth –
which he did and then she was such a shining compassionate woman that healed
his pain and anger from his terrible upbringing. For moooar guilt.
Poor Abe is, of course, wracked with guilt. He plays this
excellently, the grief is phenomenal and I’d praise the performance if I didn’t
want to get on with the plot rather than see Abe and Jackson out angst each
other
Wait, this is Zoo. There is no coherent plot
Sadly Abe decides he simply has to tell Jackson. Oh and that
his dad is alive. I and everyone else screams “NOOOOOOOO!!!!”. Jackson,
predictably, goes for Abe’s throat and Abe is only saved by Dariela’s return to
shoot Jackson. Which is exactly what she wanted to avoid. Jackson runs away.
But Dariela is back! So were was she? She was running
around in England telling a vicar how much she didn’t want to actually shoot
anyone and be the team’s killer. Well, sucks to be you, Dariela. She manages to
lead the convoy of people to safety despite an attack by a herd of horses with
no casualties. Why? Because all the horses focused on her
Dariela assumes that there’s something wrong with her,
she is the opposite of Jackson, she summons the animals. Or, the horses ignored
the rest of the people because they’re all infected. This latter one is the one
we’re supposed to believe – despite the fact she was leading them from their
village because they were UNDER ATTACK by animals.
They realise this means that all of them are susceptible
to the Ghost-Gene-Killing-Reiden-Global Noah Initiative gas. It’s going to be
unleashed in 4 days – and will kill billions more than they imagined
Personally I actually kind of think “release the gas
because all of those people become mutant killers!!!!” Sure you’ll kill a
billion or so people but the alternative is those billion or so people turning
into lion killing monster people. Death vs monster people. You decide.
I’ve avoided it time and time again but, alas, I have to
finally reach the plot. Get your safety harnesses guys, this much shark jumping
needs severe safety equipment. Or a very big pogo stick.
We’re reminded that the world is completely falling apart
with news that co-ordinated animal attacks are doing things like threatening
nuclear plants. Yeah, see this would have been scary about 8 episodes ago.
Before we had EARTHQUAKE SLOTHS. Seriously, “animals attack a nuclear plant” is
nothing compared to “Sloth causes California to fall into the sea by singing”.
Anyway that mystery pile of bones that Mitch can’t
decipher? It’s an extinct Saber Toothed Cat. A Sabre Toothed Cat that should
have been extinct thousands of years ago was actually around 100 years ago
because of a secret laboratory in Chile bringing extinct animals back to life
in the late Victorian period.
….
..
.
I can’t even snark this. What. Just what… why? WHY?
They find this information by going to Mitch’s dad,
cryptozoologist, who Mitch hates and who Alison hates and who we get lots and
lots of drama from. He flirts with Jaime which is something he does as he’s
previously seduced another of his son’s girlfriends. Allison. Mitch’s step
mother.
Who Mitch ends up sleeping with just as Jamie decides she
loves him
I don’t know what I want least… Jamie’s annoying angst
and relationship drama. Mitch and his dad arguing over Allison like she isn’t
there. Or Mitch sleeping with his step mother
Do Not Want Any Of It.
That may be the new tag for the show:
DO NOT WANT
