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This is ranked the lowest according to Slipstream.com and for a third episode made very little mark on the show's reputation.
But for a rocky start I didn't find this particularly bad. Lord of the Flies in space.

Good: Guest stars, when kids are on the set things can get tricky but when done right they can make a super show. The lead guest stars were definetly infused with talent.

Rev turned in an excellent performance. and we're given to see the better (and weaker) side if Dylan's character when he tries to use his "savior" influence to stop the kids from killing.

This episode also marked Rommie's first appearance, and it was...stunning. It proved on thing: Lexa Doig has guts. Walking into a room full of teenagers and co-workers buck-naked isn't something every person will do, especially when they don't seem to know that it's something to be aware of.

Bad: The problem is there just wasn't much to this story. A lot of time was wasted filling space with the slipstream rides and other things. It wasn't as complicated a story as others, simple-minded.

Other stuff: The prejudice for Maggog and Neits was expressed in this episode. Tyr was never confronted but Rev brought himself out and was punised dearly.
I personally think the story gave a good lesson but most people probably didn't wait long enough to get it.

Okay, I really want to touch on this because I think it's cool and important. I said before that this episode was much like the book Lord of the Flies by Golding, where children are left on an islend withoud adults and become savage and kill each other. This is very much true in this episode. The chilren are confined to a drift, and have to fight off enemies alone. In the book, the enemy is non-existant, so they turn on each other out of suspicion and the instictual desire to kill (coincedentaly, a Neit trait). In the epis the enemy is real, Maggog and Neits do attack the drift but it only serves a a vent to prolong their turning, and there's no proof they didn't kill each other anyway.

As Beka points out over the years the kids have become "very in touch with their inner savage" resulting in 300 years of barbarianism. When Dylan tries to intervene with a way that to them is foreign, even though it acually came from the same cronicles they worshiped, their loose alliance is broken and they begin to turn on each other. I believe this is inevitable because of the opening quote- "Those fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. Those who fail to learn history correctly, well, they are simply doomed."

"The End"