1.8 An Old Accustom’d Feast It certainly wants us to care about Emery and Roman’s new romance, which has apparently been going on for a while without Emery getting around to dumping her actual boyfriend, Grayson. I wonder, if we can see so clearly that her actions, along with the video footage of Atrians dumping Grayson, apparently drugged, will push him over to joining his parents’ cause in the Red Hawks, then why can’t she? For all the weird ideas Star-Crossed sends out there, I know we’re definitely supposed to be rooting for the titular couple but, with Emery written the way she is, I’m siding with Grayson on this one. Dinasyku is a good way to get everyone together; everyone talking about the presence of their seven integrators’ classmates visiting the sector. We learn a little more about Drake in this episode, for example, with his family apparently gone (believed to be in Eljida) and a genuine reluctance to continue doing the Trag’s bidding and, with Roman’s help, he deals with both in this episode. It’s not entirely clear what the Trags want to achieve by springing Drake’s mother from jail, but it gets him off of spy duty and, with the black box confirming that she and another were piloting the ship that crashed on earth, things are heating up. My guess is that whatever Eljida actually is, and we’re still no closer to finding out, will be the thing that sparks the revolution we’ve all been waiting for. Hope is a powerful thing and, with the hope that there’s somewhere better where their supposedly dead family and friends currently reside is keeping a lot of the Atrians placated. Without this to hold on to, why would they stay locked away? Since this is Star-Crossed, we’re not going to see any large-scale annihilation but, with the Red Hawks and the Trags too busy fighting each other to realise what might be the real threat – the discovery of Cypher. Eva and her team of scientists might be trying to cure terminal disease with secret alien technology, but the way she’s using Julia suggests she might have something else up her sleeve. Would she really resort to blackmailing a teenage girl and piling up Atrian bodies just to advance science? It’s plausible but, even though no one but Julia is looking in her direction right now, it’s only a matter of time before she targets someone else our main characters care about. When this happens, and Grayson inevitably joins the other side, Emery and Roman are going to have much bigger problems than keeping their makeout sessions a secret. Follow our Twitter feed for faster news and bad jokes right here. And be our Facebook chum here.
