No.2: "The Train Job"

Before I watched this episode, I didn’t really pay attention to the name. I thought it was “the training job”, like there would be some kind of job training going on. But now, I know it is a job that takes place on a train, a train full of Alliance supporters. As the captain of a ship of Independents, Reynolds has to protect all his group members while completing the dangerous job.

Niska, the mandatory of the job, is obviously a cold-blooded person. He can even kill his wife’s nephew for failing to complete his command properly. He thought the dead body would scare the group and thus, they would work for him under any condition. However, he ignored something very important, humanity. The job he wanted the group to do is to steal two boxes of cargo from the Alliance train. So the group did. But after the captain found out that the cargo they stole were the only two boxes of medicines on the train, and after he saw the poor and sick people in the town, he changed his mind. He decided to stop the deal and to give the medicines back. Although this decision might risk all of him group members’ lives, Reynolds let his humanity came before safety, which was very impressing. The lack of humanity guarantees the lose of Niska.

My favorite part of this episode is the fighting between the group and the followers of Niska. Not like most of the kungfu films with fancy moves, this fighting scene is more realistic. For examples, people get hurt; bullets miss the targets, ect. Although this is a science fiction drama, I didn’t see anything over-exaggerated or impossible to achieve in the future. And that’s the part I like the most about this drama.