This episode is in one of my most hated formats – the broken
time line. The characters are running around with random, poorly-explained
amnesia with occasional flashes of memory to try and piece the story together
So Eve, and the Librarians were celebrating in Las Vegas
and we have a nice touching scene where everyone is super kind to Eve because
they all recognise she’s probably not feeling great since Flynn has deserted
her. Again. Alas we don’t get to stay on this excellent scene of bonding to
join his slighting weird story
And I think I could actually really like this whole plot of
prophecy fencing and second guessing prophecy if it weren’t for the broken time
line
Basically there’s this unstoppable magical assassin
focusing on Eve. He also drops a prophecy cube – a kind of stored prophecy –
which reveals that the assassin will kill Eve in the Library
Jenkins is firmly of the opinion she should stay in the
Library and be safe because it’s the Library. In a glorious moment of
self-mockery, Eve lists the 8 gajillion people who have easily infiltrated the
secure Library. I always appreciate a lovely chunk of self-awareness.
Instead they follow up a random library mission to a
school with lots of random luck, including the swim team passing several tests
after ridiculous improvement, winning the lottery and the captain winning a
trip to train in an Olympic pool in Greece – which then dumps Ezekiel, Jake and
Evem, via school pool, into a strange world with odd amnesia. They’re joined by
several people from the school, including the captain of the swim team, the
headmaster (who has a little power play with Eve before Eve effortlessly takes
control because she’s Eve) and the cleaning lady, Nina
And they have several swimming goggles which, revealed
through flashbacks, are the key behind all the luck of the school swim team:
they help you see a bit of the future
The gang uses these goggles to navigate past a series of traps
with fun little moments – like knowing they can use a coin to find the trapped
areas of the floor because they’ve seen a future of Ezekiel giving that coin to
a museum – so it can’t be destroyed.
At the same time, at the Library, Cassandra and Jenkins
return with a second prophecy cube and tell us the rules of prophecy (very
important since Eve is prophesised to die). You can’t just run from prophecy –
you either defeat it with a larger prophecy (the example given is an Oracle,
who seeing that she would be murdered by one of her priestesses, made several
other prophecies that each of her priestesses would be murdered by her wife –
and promptly married and murdered each of them. Breaking the prophecy with more
prophecy. So, yes same-sex relationship, no lots of murdering) or have someone
outside the prophecy break it.
