Having dreams of she and Howlyn in a romantic situation, Renee decides to return to the mothership and lower its shields, giving the US military the chance to blow it up.

Renee really needs to pick her fights better, and the producers of this show seem to have no idea what they're doing any more. Let's take the first point first. Last we saw of Renee, she was presenting Hubble with evidence that there was a new alien presence in town. For some reason, a severed hand doesn't seem to be proof enough anymore, so Hubble just treats her like a criminal and sends his boys after her every time she sets foot outside. Her latest plan is – surprise! – go to the Taelon mothership. Firstly you'd think she'd learn her lesson from last week's ill-advised excursion and secondly, why wander up there when the people you want help from aren't likely to do anything anyway? The Atavus seem content to stay on the ship, so it's not like they're causing any hassle at all from where they are. Not to mention the fact that even getting there through the ship's shields should be tricky, yet it seems Renee can just drop in anytime.

The whole idea of Howlyn and Renee being drawn to each other on a weird sexual level is ludicrous and doesn't work at all, especially when however much Howlyn wants this woman, Renee refuses to go within ten yards of him. Blowing up the mothership was last week's plan, as far as I recall, and if this is going to be how every week goes, it really is time to give this series up.

This is why it seems the producers have no idea what to do. Each episode so far, Renee decides to prove the existence of the Atavus and fails. Why? Is it because with one nuke the threat would be over? Probably. It's just reached the point where there's nowhere else to go. Renee can go to the mothership over and over again and fail because there are more episodes to go. The hybridizing of humans provides an added twist to the tale, but I don't see what use they serve except to replace the nasty humans on Earth. I thought the Atavus wanted a violent and nasty take-over, not a quiet, underhand 'replacement' version. The more of this we get, the bigger it seems the mess becomes.

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