Angels, time-hopping, and J. Edgar Hoover?
In general, I’ve enjoyed the recent episodes.
I’m weirdly into the characters getting superpowers.
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Something about the show becoming even more bonkers just feels right!
But this episode… was a lot.
Let’s dig in.
There, she plays the role of Teresa as she runs into… Jughead?
Just kidding, it’s not Jughead!
It’s Rafael, her guardian angel.
And this is strike one on this episode for me.
Superpowers I can handle, but actual angels?
Tabitha comes to the conclusion that she needs to find a talisman for help her control her powers.
Centerville is a sundown town, and when their car died they were seen out past curfew.
To have Rafael show them his true form and therefore make them go insane.
I swear I’m not making any of this up.
Upon her arrival, Tabitha instantly decides she needs to save Martin Luther King Jr. before he’s assassinated.
Try some time travel!
But you might’t have your cake and eat it too.
Watching people cry over the news that MLK Jr. is dead moments after an angel drove some people insane?
Perhaps Rafael showed me his true form and I’m now crazy, because it just felt off.
But the crazy doesn’t stop there!
So do you want to know what she does?
She calls J. EDGAR HOOVER and tells him she knows all about his secret files!!!
The moral of this episode: Pay attention in history class, kids.
Long story short, she wins this round and Percival plants a bomb in Pop’s.
The explosion then sends her to 1999, where a bunch of white supremacists are vandalizing Pop’s.
Don’t tell me angels aren’t wise.
Rafael decides that the Holy Grail must be Tabitha’s talisman because… she’s so Jesus-like?
But when she goes to grab it, Percival, dressed as a soldier, attacks her.
Thankfully she grabs the spear and informs us all that she took fencing in college!
Percival then reveals his real name is Legion?
Or something like that.
He shows us a glimpse of what I assume is his real face and it is NOT cute.
Then when Tabitha goes to stab him, he disappears.
Back the in present, she updates everyone on what she learned (and on her new powers).
Now they must prepare to battle Percival.
But throwing together time travel, angels, MLK Jr.’s death, Jesus, and lots of racism?
I can’t say this one worked for me.
