I had to rewind the DVR a bit to understand just how exactly the crisis of the episode was resolved. I'm still not sure I get it (the resurrection part I got, just not the part how the razor rain was taken care of).
I had to think which scene you meant then realized.... "Oh, that scene with _____ and _____ in _____ after they _____.
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I don't think the razor rain itself was "taken care of" except that this round finished...just that the large chunk of spaceship (that I guess was separate from that) was diverted from its original course.
I think I may have to go back and rewatch it.
I was following that the ship was not part of the original razor rain but was 'called' from orbit at the command of the guy in the arch and that somehow the fact of the ship coming down stopped the rain.
I had to rewind the DVR a bit to understand just how exactly the crisis of the episode was resolved. I'm still not sure I get it (the resurrection part I got, just not the part how the razor rain was taken care of).
I had to think which scene you meant then realized.... "Oh, that scene with _____ and _____ in _____ after they _____.
The astronaut story I think was just an elaborate way for it be exposed to Nolan & the others that the Votan doctor was involved in some shady stuff that has not been revealed before publicly. It also gave a little bit of more to the background story as to the war that took place. In an earlier episode we saw a young Nolan watching the first ships arrive and last night's episode showed that the astronaut disappeared prior to that event and when the aliens did reveal themselves they claimed to have come in peace. With the doctor revealing how & why the astronaut came to be on their ship it is setting up a darker story arc.
Agreed, and they'd already set up the doctor with some sort of "sordid past" while the bombmaker was incarcerated in an earlier episode. So, it wouldn't have taken that much to fill the audience in.
I was expecting the challenger to the mayor as the those two (I can't remember the characters names, the guy & his wife) have been scheming for power since the first episode but the character who was killed, that I was not expecting at all nor even would have guessed at. With the last couple of episodes with that character getting more entrenched in the local scene I thought they were being set up for a longer story arc or even possibly as a regular character so I'm actually happy to say I didn't see that one coming (I have a bit of mental entertainment with shows of guessing what is going to happen next in an episode as I'm watching it). It seems like there is also a showdown being put in place for Little Wolf where she will need to decide exactly which group she stands with.
I definitely see that coming, since there was the drama between her and her "father" following the (what turned out to be unnecessary) killing a few episodes back. I imagine it will probably play a large role in the season finale in a few weeks...given the preview they gave of this next episode (and the constant squabbles between the lawman and the challenger), I imagine if the mayoral challenger ends up victorious, there will be quite a bit more drama involved.
Indeed...which is odd, since it seemed like her recent criminal behavior was geared at trying to keep the weapon out of other people's hands.
in the finale for which I must appreciate the writers for. 
I hadn't thought about that but that would allow her to stay in a role that has some influence on the town while also moving her character to be a bit more on the 'edge', so to speak, that would be more in line with Nolan.
