This episode of Van
Helsing we follow all those people we probably don’t care about all that
much and feel somewhat irrelevant.
I think we have a
weird dichotomy of stories - we have the main epic storyline of Vanessa and
Scarlett taking down the elders. It’s epic and focused and the centre of the
storyline.
Then we have Denver
which is… ok? And we have Scab and Ivory and it’s like… why? Why do we care
about these people, these side characters in other people’s stories? Or Sam and
Mohammed - why, where do these people fit?
To have a whole
episode on these side plots without any real foundation to them is just
distracting - on the plus side the writers seem to be finally bringing these
plot lines together into something coherent and maybe, finally, making them
relevant
Scab has decided to
join the Sisterhood. He’s gone on a weird journey, since two episodes ago he
didn’t see why he and Ivory needed the Sisters then was demanding they obey and
serve him but now he decides he wants to be a memory and begs to join - even
when that joining requires him being castrated. He’s now a loyal member of the
Sisterhood and loyally following Ivory
Meanwhile Axel is
leading the survivors from San Francisco to Denver and losing his shit in an
epic temper tantrum when they’re attacked by day walking vampires and one of
their members is bitten. He has a right to be annoyed since they blatantly ignored
what he told them for their own safety but he still has an epic shitfit that
probably won’t help anyone
Further up the road
they find a van that has broken down full of people heading to San Francisco
(and carrying weird blue rocks), including pregnant woman Kit. Axel wants to
help despite Dre’s misgivings because Axel is now a nice guy and not super
suspicious of anyone
The leader insists
that there’s a ship in San Francisco taking them to Hawaii where no-one is
infected with vampirism. Axel, having just come from vampire infested San
Francisco thinks this is a super super bad idea and tries to talk them out of
it and instead says they should go to Denver where there’s a safe community
developing
Leader guy isn’t
having it. At which point Axel becomes super high handed trying to overrule him
which makes sense for the character because he’s always kind of being “I know
best” since season 1, only Vanessa’s Honey badgerness managed to push it back -
and he’s clearly feeling super protective of Kit. Leaderguy super over-reacts
and actually points a gunt at Axel
This ends up with him
dead and their group joining Axel’s group travelling to Denver
But that newly turned
vampire Christina is a problem - she goes to Scarface - who seems to have
become much much much more animalistic since the last we saw him - to tell him
that there’s a settlement full of humans in Denver they can go and slaughter
them all then starve to death because there’s no human blood any more!
These vampires are
very poor long term planners, it has to be said. Ok I’m going to give them the
benefit of the doubt and assume it’s human civilisation they want to stop
rebuilding - but there’s still the complete slaughter of all humans they find
that is an issue. Dmitri may have been a hilariously comic villain but at least
he had plans
He screams and it’s a
super magic scream heard by everyone, gathering vampires to his side so he can
go murder Denver. Ivory and the Sisterhood responds
And Ivory agrees that slaughtering humans is a great idea - but that Scarface is terribad and she’s not having him lead. She rips out his heart and her sisters slaughter some of his main followers, making the rest join in the castration fest and join her attacking Denver.
So them invading
Denver sort of brings a number of storylines together but still kind of leaves
them separate from the actual Van Helsings
Speaking of separate
- Sam has his new happy toy Felix and it’s going well with the slaughter and
killing when mysterious shadow lady appears - I guess she isn’t the B’ah. We do
get to see her and I rather think her clothing is super impractical for an
apocalypse. She’s cryptic and weird and says Sam needs to kill who he loves
most. So he kills Felix - wow, it seems Felix was also just dragged back from
the archives just to murder. Do better Van Helsing. Dredging through
your archives for sacrifices isn’t a good look
But apparently Felix
isn’t the one she means
So it’s to Mohammed
who Sam left imprisoned in a bunker - and he starts
hallucinating Cara, the girl Sam killed - and she guides him on how to rescue himself. And
kill Sam
So that’s happening…
how it’s relevant to the greater plot, whether Cara is actually a ghost and
exactly what is haunting Sam remains to be seen
