GOODBYE TO THE ALLIANCE: CHANGE OF COURSE IN THE OUTPOST. REVIEW FROM EPISODE 4X05

The mystery surrounding the kinjs and the gods who claim them grows and the unstoppable snowball rushes rapidly down the narrative line of The Outpost. Talon failed to return with the blackblood troops promised to consolidate Falista's reign, Luna has been discovered by Tobin himself, and partly Garret's fault Janzo has seen the Prime Order soldiers shut down their underground business again. For his part, Tobin is suspicious of his partner's unusual religiosity and urges Garret to free Luna before she is executed, behind the queen's back, a moment that the teenager takes the opportunity to join Talon and Zed in their search for Two and the Lu Qiri.

Talon and Zed's adventure of discovery allows us to better understand the figure of the gods, those beings with pointed ears that vaguely resemble the blackblood and that, coincidentally, like them, bleed black blood when seriously injured. Zed reserves a moment of personal glory as he tries to save Talon and Luna from the clutches of monsters, something that must have weighed on his will, since Corven's death and the genocide that occurred on the Plain of Ashes have hurt his pride and his sense of belonging to the world. In just a few hours, the warrior has lost almost his entire family, a feeling that he can only share with Talon and Wren. The future of the blackblood race now rests with the surviving children and, in a way, also with the hybrid baby of Janzo and Wren. If Zed has always been drawn to Talon's exotic beauty and his fighting prowess, at no time have the two been so close. However, Zed is reserved and a man of few words, someone who tends not to speak his mind or to speak lightly. Time will tell if, finally, something more than a simple friendship is forged between them, but the truth is that the current circumstances have reconciled Talon with his own people and that they have opened a small gap between her and her bond with Gallwood, aka Garret Spears. The disagreements between the two protagonists of the show have even caused Garret to become fond of the fugitive Luna.

Janzo's academic slumber is over and we finally get to see him investigating the mystery of the Skevikor, doomsday according to the blackblood tradition, which has a lot to do with the divine voices Falista has heard lately. The chapter reveals the existence of seven deities that possessed kinjs, who strangely disappeared without a trace. There's some reason to believe that the creators of the show were inspired by the myth of Prometheus and the fire of the gods, since the supposed goddess Vorta refers to the Asterkinj that Talon carries as the traitor. Aster would be the possessor of the blue kinj that opens portals to other worlds, and if he betrayed the Seven perhaps it was to steal their kinjs, their powers, and grant them to the blackbloods. However, there is also the possibility that she refers to Talon as a traitor to her own people. What if obtaining all the kinjs and their proper placement on the symbol ring unlocked the Skevikor? Impossible to confirm, but no less plausible, perhaps the blackblood are hybrids between the race of gods and humans, an answer that we will only get, unfortunately, when Wren gives birth to Janzo's son. 

Mythology and religion are aspects that the universe of The Outpost has only just begun to explore this season. We are barely talking about the origin of the blackbloods, actually, the tip of the iceberg of this medieval fantasy, because the secrets of the dragman women and the grayskins are still hidden, which would provide enough fuel for two more seasons.

Crossing the Gallwood gate again, we observe how the trust, or what is the same, the tug of war between Garret Spears, Tobin and Falista, is hopelessly frayed. Tobin only acts as sovereign because Falista and others praise him as such, but nothing could be further from the truth: the king feels like a foreigner in a foreign country. His loyalty swings more than a pendulum. He may give Munt courtship lessons to enchant Warlita, but no one in all of Gallwood hates luxury, formal praise, and gastronomic refinements more than he does, which he would gladly trade for simplicity and mundane. He loves Falista but differs greatly from her in opinions of her, so much so that Garret Spears clings to him like a burning nail. The gate marshall insists that he bend her to his will, because it's not her, but the red kinj, who decides instead of her and who perpetrates the most heinous crimes, but Tobin, trying to follow his advice, realizes that it's actually his wife who orders and commands. He is only a mere king consort to hers, which is why he is ultimately inclined to obey her, as her hand wouldn't shake in decreeing his execution. Spears ends at the end of the episode again behind bars, although yeah, with the possibility that Luna helps him  in a clear exchange of favors since she is the only one of the group who has been banned from going to the outpost.

The newly resurrected gods head to the capital to reclaim the remaining kinjs, with Falista leading the retinue carrying Talon and Zed, now reduced to hostages, and with Janzo and Wren condemned to solve the mystery of the Skevikor and the crypt key from the underground city if they want to meet their son alive one day. Neither Janzo nor Wren have managed to unravel the cache of the key, but the series has opened the door to more questions, such as what the capital that The Three dominated has to do with the ruins of Gallwood. For the first time in The Outpost, the enemy we most feared has perished. We are talking about Two, whose blind faith plunged her forever into the darkness of death. With the fall of Two and Three, the main threat to which the kingdom had been subjected since the first season disappears from the chessboard, and that makes us fear for the lives of Falista and Tobin. Episode 4 × 05, which has put the spotlight on the action and mystery surrounding supernatural creatures, suddenly turns the tide of the series.