Over the past three weeks, the show has definitely moved into a more serious dramatic tone. There’s nothing I don’t love about that. Anything on television that can balance honest-to-god gut-wrenching moments along with radioactive zombies deserves my unadulterated adoration. That said, it does make the stark difference in quality between the show’s dramatic and comedic beats harder to stomach. Less effective this week was 10K working out (or, more appropriately failing to work out) his daddy issues with reclusive nuke expert, Homer Stubbins (arguably the greatest name of any character anywhere). 10K lost a dad, Homer lost a son – this would have been enough underlining of their relationship as it stood when the duo was forced to go back inside and shut down the reactor. But the overwrought dialogue made what could have been as emotionally jarring as anything involving Murphy this week sink like a ball of lead. That said, it was nice to spend some time with 10K, who has been criminally underused so far this season as a character. There’s a lot more with him to mine, and while the dad stuff is sad, I’m more curious about the life of a young person whose memories only extend as far as the start of the apocalypse. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing.
