Written And Directed by James Gunn
Peacemaker (upon realising): "Fuck me."
Emilia: "This is your perfect world, huh?"
And just like that, we're on Earth X or Earth 2, according to James Gunn. It's not like the previous five episodes weren't hinting at the end but the reveal of a Nazi America flag and poor Leota being chased down the street made sure there was no more ambiguity on the subject.
Of all the ideal worlds for Christopher Smith to escape into, he had to go with this one. It's unfortunate that he didn't click once that there were no people of colour but Emilia managed to figure it out only a few minutes into the episode. I gotta say, this was certainly an episode for her.
It was also an episode for Jennifer Holland as an actor too because that scene with John Cena were Emilia broke down her history with Rick Flag Jr, her changing feelings for Peacemaker, trying to make the latter see sense and talking about her feelings. That was easily the best acting she's done on the show so far.
I guess after this episode, I'm on board with both Peacemaker and Emilia Harcourt as a couple. That's if they manage to get out of this racist world alive. Oh and Economos might have made things that much harder for Christopher given what he just told Auggie by the end of this one too.
Going back to the rest of the characters, I really liked Keith but seeing how readily he summoned a mob against Leota, he's dead to me. Yup, he can rot after this one. I was rooting for you, Keith. Not anymore though.
As for Vigilante, things were going so well with meeting the other version of himself. I was kind of disappointed that the show didn't use the opportunity to present a more serious version of the character but then we had the revelations of Earth 2 Vigilante hating Peacemaker and being a member of the Sons of Liberty. That was definitely enough to snap our Vigilante out of his eagerness to know his other self.
- Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) was the big cameo here as he agreed to work with Flag Sr in order to go to a better prison and redeem himself.
- The post credit scene revealed that Earth 2's Mrs Smith died when Christopher was two. Emilia's ghost joke was actually funny in response.
- If Leota's being chased by an angry mob, what's happened to Judomaster? He didn't appear at all in the episode.
- We finally met Adrian's mother, who thought Harcourt was his girlfriend at one point. On Earth 2, his father isn't gay.
- Standout music: Pretty Maids Little Drops Of Heaven and Helloween's Forever & One (Neverland).
- Chronology: From where the previous episode left off.
Ignorance Is Chris easily the best episode so far. The Lex cameo was funny (did we get a Killer Croc hint?) but felt relevant to future events. The Peacemaker and Emilia Harcourt scenes were excellent and that reveal was done extremely well. Looking forward to these last two episodes.
Rating: 8 out of 10
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