I witnessed the death of God at the beginning of time!"
This is basically, in its concluding episodes, a study in Evil Lyn as nihilist, seeing no purpose and thus no point in the existence of the universe, and so wanting to destroy it. Alas, Eternia has no Jean-Paul Sartre to put her right with existentialism. Yes, perhaps God is dead (as alluded to in Lyn's dream) and the universe has no plan for us, but does that not set us free to live for ourselves, decide our own purpose and meaning, and do good because it's the right thing and not from a selfish desire for heavenly reward? Perhaps Lyn did the right thing in destroying heaven, but the actual universe matters precisely because it has and needs no meaning.
And yet Lyn remains a sympathetic character. Her nuhilism comes, as is nailed home in her hard-hitting monologue to Skeletor, from a lifetime of psychological and physucal abuse, gaslighting, and coercive control. She speaks with the justified rage of an abused woman who has found freedom from her abusers control- including the parts of the control based inside her own mind. I suspect the conclusion will see some sort of healing catharsis for her. I hope so.
Meanwhile we also see Teela come to terms with her power, which she wields better than she thinks, and a conversation with her late mother about how being the Sorceress means abandoning all human attachments- including to one's child, which Teela's mum seems to get away with here a little too likely. I suspect Teela will make a better choice, in the end, than her mother.
But it's all looking very epic, excited as we are by the brief appearance of Blade from the movie and the Adam/Skeletor double act. This is truly excellent telly.
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