1.7 To Seek A Foe For the section of the audience who are tuning in purely for the Romeo And Juliet story, the episode will be remembered as the one where Emery and Roman finally gave into their feelings but, for everyone else, it’ll be remembered as the one that introduced Black Cyper as a significant threat to the human race, Castor’s ominous cupboard full of explosives and a plausible grudge for Grayson to have against Emery and her Atrian friends. All of this gets me excited for the future of the show, if not just because the uptick in action in this episode is something the show really needed, but the continual focus on Emery worries me slightly. And that’s mainly because the issues surrounding the stagnant war bubbling just under the surface are finally starting to feel more urgent, and the repurposing of Grayson as a potential antagonist for our main gang should push the show in this direction rather than make his turn to the ‘dark side’ more about seeing his kind-of girlfriend making out with an alien in her driveway. This is obviously an element of the show that has a time and a place – early Vampire Diaries demonstrated how to weave it into the larger narrative brilliantly – and, now that the big kiss is out of the way, I hope it’s shoved a little more into the background. And as of this week, with Zoe’s attack on Lucas upsetting pretty much everyone, Roman, Sofia and Drake are all on the side of the humans. As much as I dislike the romance between Roman and Emery, I have to admit that the various dynamics developing between members of the supporting cast are proving far more compelling. Drake and Taylor, Eric and Julia and Sofia and Lucas are all nice, inoffensive pairings that, should Sofia’s assertion that all Atrians can love regardless of gender, could go anywhere. On a series like Star-Crossed, the minor characters are everything, and this particular cast are developing very nicely. The cliffhanger taking us through to next week was Eva’s discovery of the real reason for Julia’s miraculous recovery, and we can also look forward to Roman and Emery celebrating Atrian holiday Dinaskyu inside of the sector, while Drake tries his best to get out of a new mission from the Trags. See you there! Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
