The finale kicked off showing us a glimpse of Taryn's life before she lost her daughter. She promised Alehna played by Evanna Lynch (Luna in the Harry Potter movies and coicidently one of my favourite potter characters) that she would save her and that was apparently her sole focus through the whole of Sinbad. She was trying to get to the land of the dead. Im sure there was an easier way that all the dark magic and killing of royalty but then it wouldn't have made for such other good eps would it?
Cut to Sinbad and co in a pretty heavy storm about to be sucked into a swirling vortex in the middle of some random towers that are the markers for the doorway to the land of the dead. In fact the storms that bad they all have to rope themselves to the boat and everyone passes out.
When our crew comes too they are sailing in smooth waters again in a huge cavern and eventually venture into the land of limbo that looks exactly like Basra except its greyer. The entrance to Limbo is a gate which Gunnar can't move at all but Sinbad at Tigers suggestion just pops it and they can go through.
Big bad - We are immediately introduced to some strange cyclopitic creatures referred to as Guardians. Sinbad impulsively runs off and gets caught by one of these.
Meanwhile the scoobies go after Sinbad.
Gunnar is epic - Our warrior firstly realises Tiger isn't who she is and beats (Quite literally) Taryn out of her. The he takes on the guardian. He manages to distract it with a sword and only as Gunnar can so the rest can make a grab to get our hero back.
In alternative Basra, Gunnar has become a street fighter all twisted with rage. Sinbad trys to talk to alternate Gunnar but instead ends up getting the crap kicked out of him. In a nice montage flicking back and forth between limbo and alternate Basra every time Alternate Gunnar hits Sinbad, he's actually whacking the Guardian.
They drag Sinbad to safety and then in Alternative Basra we meet my lovely boy Anwar who apparently went back home after getting seasick on the providence and his father covered up him leaving university. He went on to become a proper - not "student" doctor.
Alternative Anwar finds Sinbad in Alternate Basra and brings him back to his office and patches him up. This is played during the real Anwar in Limbo examining him.
Sinbad is frustrated and confused and leaves after informing Anwar that there is a big world out there and they were friends. He goes and knocks on his houses door to discover his brother Jamil doesn't even recognize him.
In limbo Gunnar insists Taryn try do something, so she starts weaving her magic and whispering for Sinbad to stay alive. In Alternative Basra, Anwar has followed Sinbad to his brothers and tells him that he defy s the laws of science and has no heartbeat. Sinbad is dead. Suddenly the whole of Alternative Basra are staring at him and there's silence. Taryn manages to pull Sinbad back to Limbo and we make the interesting discovery that actually Sinbad has a foot in both the worlds of the dead and living.
We discover that for that reason the Guardians are really after him and it all makes sense Death in ep 3 telling Sinbad they have met before. Our hero realises that he's made an awful mistake bringing all his friends here and takes off after locking them in to sacrifice himself to the Guardians.
Then the real Jamil shows up and manages to get Sinbad to safety. The scooby gang are naturally relieved and Jamil takes them to a place where he's mapped the whole of limbo - secret passages and all. They start planning to get back to the providence.
Queue creepy music that Taryn identifies as a lullaby she used to sing to Alehna. Taryn realises its her daughter calling for her and begs Sinbad to help her find her. It looks for a moment that she has burnt all her britches with all the scooby gang. Even Anwar holds fast and surprisingly its Gunnar that says the words "its your choice" and our hero chooses to then help the witch.
They follow the music to a library. Taryn and Alehna are reunited and we find out more about Sinbads origins. Apparently his mother was preggers wth him when she died and his father was the most powerful mage in the world. He defyed everything and got both him newborn and his pregnant mother out. Sinbad survived fine, his mother ended up in the coma state we saw right at the beginning. Not quite sure what happened to the dad though as Jamil and Sinbad both confirm they never knew him.
At that point I was having a crazy idea that Cook was maybe going to turn out to be his dad or someone working with him - explaining why the providence won't sail without Sinbad . . . and why he can't leave the ship in some way but no ......
After story time is over Gunnar realises the Guardians have found them complete with hounds this time and yells "incoming". My fav line of the ep was Tiger stating "I hate dogs" LOL at the moment. They start trying to barricade the door but realise its pointless. Rina then says they should go down fighting and they are resigned that they will die there until . ....
And I am so glad the writers did this. After 12 eps of Anwar coming so close but then managing to do an Anwar he really pulled through. During story time it seems he started rooting through the library in Limbo. Much to Rina's hilarious exasperation.
Rina and Anwar - my fav bit of dialogue of the two last night.
Rina - "So while we are making barricades you were looking at dusty books?"
Anwar - "We are in a library in limbo on the edge of the land of the dead. I couldn't resist!"
Paid off though as the delicious doc managed to find a map of the library and a secret way out. Rina's lock picking skills came in too and I can honestly say I wanted to cheer when Anwar so pleased that they got the door open suddenly utter, "Anwar is amazing." Rina gave him a lovely smile at the moment too!
Gunnar was more epic - holding off the hounds as they all made their escape through the door.
As they are making their escape, Alehna starts hearing a creepy voice calling her.
They escape the Library and a really huge Guardian appears. Jamil then sacrifices himself so that Sinbad can live and Gunnar and Anwar have to drag him away before he goes after his brother.
Then we are once again onboard the Providence. Cook has prepared a huge feast. Rina is gently taking bandages off Anwar. Sinbad finally emerged clearly gutted he got so close to getting Jamil out of there. Tiger asks how he's holding up "dead apparently" our hero replies deflated.
Cook threatens to go impart his wisdom but luckily Anwar decides he will do it instead as he has a speech prepared. Its actually a lovely scene in which he points out there's more adventures out there and Sinbad saved them all - giving them life. Sinbad notes that Anwar used to be afraid of adventures and he quips that Sinbad was a bad influence. We get a hint of smile back on our hero's face.
Anwar goes back to the rest and starts dishing food out. He shares a lovely smile with Rina. I was screaming. Why was there no kiss or something between the two????? I can feel some fanfiction coming on. There was no romance at all in this ep which was very disappointing as I had read some spoilers and Tumblrs alluding to a Tiger and Sinbad kiss, a possible peck on the cheek between Anwar and Rina and the return of Nala.
Sinbad gets a hold of himself and wishes his brother peace. The last scene was Taryn hugging Alehna and her eyes went dark like Deaths in ep 3. Looks like they kept it open for a second season. Something came back with them!!!!!!!
Yes its been cheesy in places with some major plot holes - Cook? How did they get back out that vortex? are just 2 springing to mind........ yes some of the acting has been a bit wooden. But look at Enterprise and Stargate Atlantis. It took 2 seasons before they really got good. And regardless of all that I have loved the journey. I don't know how I am going to fill the Sinbad and Dimitri shaped void in my Sunday nights now.
Fingers crossed this one gets another shot. And failing that there is some seriously good extras on the boxset I have asked my brother to get me for my birthday.
No comments:
Post a Comment