Here we are at the finale of season 1 and expectant of the promised second season that has reportedly gotten the go-ahead. This will also be the second half of last week's review.

First off, I'm thankful that my suspicions were wrong and that there was no double agent among The Five. It was also incredibly fun to watch Tesla return to both chew the scenery and scorch it a bit with each step, so to speak (come on, you thought it too, I'm sure). Also more kudos to the CGI people for the setting. Can't have a fantastic green screen series without that, and this scenery was amazingly intricate.

There was one fallacy in this episode, pointed out by my dad, who was watching with me, and which I agreed on. When Watson's life-giving machinery failed and he started to die, he insta-aged. That is the only thing I saw that has been proven impossible by science. The effects of aging and how it makes people look are the sum total of exposure to sunlight, UV radiation, oxidation of skin, fitness of body systems and many other factors. Machinery like Watson's might have kept his body healthy, but wouldn't defend against many other pieces of aging. Not only would he not have suddenly looked ancient, but he wouldn't have looked so young in the first place. He just would have looked like an incredibly old man to begin with and the scene would have been just as dramatic. Disbelief not suspended.

I'm a huge fan of interaction and banter, as most fiction writers are, so this episode was very amusing on that level. The action is worthless if not for the story that catalyzes it and the dialogue reveals that story to the audience. The conversations between each of the pairs involved in the key puzzle (sounds like an MMO name) were pretty good. I could blatantly see where Clara and Will were going with their sub-arc, but the other two made up for that for the most part. I especially liked John's and Watson's dialogue. So much exposition in so few words.

To be honest, the ending blind-sided me. I knew they were going to do something to either Ashley or Henry while in Cabal custody, but I wasn't expecting Ashley to suddenly gain daddy's powers and turn rogue. I'm pretty darn sure that the poison in that drink she had brainwashed her, but where'd the teleportation thing come from? Sure, it's in her DNA to be abnormal, but I thought it would manifest differently for her since her parents have wildly different powers. This seemed like it was added in spontaneously, which is a common blunder in TV scripts nowadays. "How do the heroes lose the desired object? Hmmm. I'll have to think of something. Oh!" Not good. Just not good. I was also really confused by the scene where Henry broke out of his cell. Cool that he could harness his werewolf rage and break the lock open, but weird that he had to do it with his shirt off and his pants falling down.

I'd really like some discussion to start from these reviews, so please add your thoughts as you see fit.