THE SUM OF IT'S PARTS
HG, a part of the ‘‘Consensus', an entirely machine based culture boards Andromeda and wants to make friends. The crew are wary of him but gradually get to like him. Andromeda agrees to meet with the society's leader. When they arrive HG tells the crew that now his job is done he must ‘‘de-consensus' meaning he will cease to exist. Before he parts he gives each of the crew a part of himself as a gift. (I'd prefer chocolates)
The Consensus of Parts leader, VX, invites Andromeda to ditch her crew and join the consensus but of course she declines, enraging the leader.
Meanwhile, HG's ‘‘gifts' start to grow and penetrate the ship, attacking Andromeda's systems. The crew must fight of VX and deal with HG at the same time but each of them have different views on how to do so.
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Review
First of all I'd like to say that
HG was annoying. Too nice.
Anyway this episode was quite
good, being the first new episode I'd seen since Sky cut the first season in
half. The consensus of course reminded me of those familiar Star Trek foes, the
Borg, only less cool. HG was irritatingly nice and I was almost relieved when
his 'gifts' tried to take over Andromeda.
Trance seemed overly fond of HG,
even when he did try to kill Andromeda and Harper seemed too eager to just kill
him off.
Wasn't it lovely when HG gave
that heart-warming speech to unite against VX? The consensus had the
oppourtunity to be a cool adversary but they didn't come over as one. They
seemed like a bunch of puppies against the Magog and the Nietzchians. Oh well,
at least they tried.
Not that this episode wasn't
good. It was. Kind of.
