2x08 The Last Empress

Another very emotional episode, with lots of things happening, not all of them good for the principal characters. A lot happens on the imperial court, with Rue telling Dawn about Dominion's ability to restore deleted memories and tempting him to cooperate with him so that he can recover them. The attack on the Empire was quite spectacular and impressive visually, also quite surprising as I didn't expect anything like that to happen. Hober manages to hit at the centre of the Empire and save Constant from execution, though Poly is taken by the Empire. It was really great to see the Empire have its comeuppance and watch Day fear for his life after he sentenced so many people to death and had them killed. Hober and Constant finally consumate their relationship but at the end, their ship is apprehended by Bel and his crew, though judging from what he talked about in the previous episode, maybe they won't kill Constant and Hober but try to overthrow the Empire together. I would be so sad to see Constant go after she's been saved in such a spectacular fashion. I really like this character and she's my favourite this season. Sareth, who was present for the execution of Poly and Constant, seemed like a person who did a lot of crying prior to this sad celebration, she knows she's trapped as well as Constant and Poly were. After the attack, Day decides to leave for Terminus and talk to the Foundation, and Sareth and Dawn use the opportunity to consumate the relationship as well as Constant and Hober did. Dusk and Rue discover a secret passage leading to the first Cleon, who is going to tell them about Demerzel's true purpose. I guess she is really the one who is in control of everything that happens and she really rules the Empire, this may be her revenge on the Empire having all the robots killed. I've read in some spoilers that Demerzel kills someone and I guess it might be Day since he decided to end the genetic dynasty and now she's on her own with him as they travel to Terminus.

A good thing is that Salvor wasn't killed but imprisoned in a cave which damps her psychic abilities. It turns out that she saved the Radiant and uses it to contact Hari in the Vault, who helps her to reprogramm the damping devices so that they destroy her prison. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that Tellum's a negative character, as she wants to steal Gaal's body and transfer her consciousness to Gaal's organism, what would eventually kill Gaal. She's already done it a couple of times and she's a power hungry person who cares nothing about other people. As a Tolkien fan, I had some Tolkien association with it, namely evil houseless elves who don't have a body and possess somebody else's so that they can survive. This woman is just the same.