Debris 1.12: Happy?

Well, the next-to-last episode of this season of Debris -- still not renewed by NBC for a second season -- was surprising for a penultimate episode of any season of any series that's not a sitcom: it had an apparently happy ending.

The coming attractions, of course, promised something much more perilous and sinister, but this 12th episode of Debris actually saw Bryan seeing the light -- as in understanding something about the Debris he wasn't getting before -- and consequently letting the Debris do their thing, and fulfill a destiny as a bright light in the sky on its way, presumably, to the cosmos.

Or maybe the mother ship.  None of that is still not even the slightest bit clear at this point.  But it has to be significant that Bryan is enabbling not opposing or riding herd on the Debris, and he seems to be pretty much in his right mind.  And there's also the fact that many fewer humans than usual got killed in Bryan;s part of the episode -- in fact, I'm pretty sure it was just one.

But what this all means for the future of us down on Earth is uncertain.  Anson Ash is free, and that's likely not good for our side, whatever exactly our side is.  Maddox is getting slightly less trustworthy in each episode, and that can't be good, either.  Finola's father George gave a rant against the government, which makes him closer to Ash than Maddox, but does that mean Ash is the hero and Maddox the anti-hero after all?

Ash likely holds the key to the decisive part of this, why else free him after all these episodes tonight.  There's a lot be told and a lot to unpack with just one episode left to do it, and I'll be back here next week with a report.

See also Debris 1.1 Some Probability of Gems Among the Pieces ... Debris 1.2: Clones ... Debris 1.3: Trapped Out of Time ... Debris 1.4: Suspentia Belief ... Debris 1.5: Fine Tuning ... Debris 1.6: Fountain of Youth and Its Complications ... Debris 1.7: Ferry Cross the Moebius Strip ... Debris 1.8: Resurrection and Its Hazards ...  Debris 1.9: Resets 1 ... Debris 1.11: Connections

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