1.5 Dreamers Often Lie Whether it is the paradise that the Earth-bound Atrians are imagining is another question entirely, and Gloria’s decision to send her son there to protect him was a rash, but entirely understandable, move for her to make. Watching her young half-Atrian son being dragged away from his mother might have been the moment Star-Crossed finally came together for me and, with that little matter set up for a later date, we can look forward to seeing where exactly he’s been taken. With Roman also looking for it after finding a (forged) note directing him to its location, it’s safe to say we’ll definitely be seeing more before the season is over. Sadly, this still means that what Emery’s up to is still infinitely less exciting than the rest of the story, with her proximity to the Red Hawks really the only thing currently going on with the human side of the show’s main rivalry. Unfortunately, because the series need to make Greyson into a likeable love interest for Emery and future love rival for Roman, we learn this week that his parents, the leaders of the Red Hawks, don’t actually believe in harming anybody. The Trags, meanwhile, are pretty extremist, and this turns what could have been a nicely ambiguous debate into something a lot more black and white. The mixing of Atrians and humans across the different groups is an interesting thing that seems to be forming, and paves the way for the more serious themes of the show to come to the fore before the end of the first season. The most intriguing thing right now is the existence of a half-human/half-Atrian child and its potential impact on our central characters. Drake is your typical kid in-over-his-head figure, while Greyson seems right now to be the equivalent mirror image, but maybe Emery’s link to both Greyson and Roman will mean that she’s the special snowflake set to bring the two groups together? It would be a plausible, if entirely predictable, way for things to go. Read Caroline’s review of the previous episode, And Left No Friendly Drop, here.
