Cleopatra 2525

This episode had some good action with Hel and Sarge and some amusing allusions from Cleo. The Betrayer factory was also pretty good, somewhat low budget in its looks but reasonably well thought out in concept. It's a pity the studio didn't put the show's budget a little higher so the cheese factor would have been reduced, but the design team did very well at recycling old materials into new sets, costumes, and props every week. We also got some good character development for Sarge as she comes to terms with her sister. It's funny watching them, because the way she acts one would think that it was <i>she</i> who had been abandoned and not Lily, but I suppose it's possible that Sarge had asked Lily to come with her all those years ago when she left the village and Lily had refused to leave home and her chance to one day rejoin their parents. All in all, a very good episode but not a stand alone one, requiring the first part of the serial to be viewed first to get the full impact.