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OUTCASTS Series 1 Episode 5 Review

OUTCASTS (BBC) Episode 5

OUTCASTS Series 1 Episode 5 - This week was when the various storylines started to converge somewhat, leading to a very surprising cliff hanger.

When a crazy man, Pak, starts throwing diamonds around like small change and then takes off into the wilderness, Cass and Fleur follow. They soon realise that Pak is actually the first man to have supposedly set foot on Carpathia – a man long thought dead. He leads them to the sea, which washes up cut diamonds, and then dies without explaining his reasons for bringing them there.

Stella and Jack go looking for Cass and Fleur. The bonding experience eases some of the tension between them, especially after Stella saves Jack’s life when he has a reaction to an insect bite. They eventually find Cass and Fleur but spot something else before they leave – the fossilized bones of three humanoids and a fossil of a fish.

Back in Forthaven, both Tipper and Tate independently decided that Julius Berger is trying to worm his way into power. This is confirmed in the final scene of the episode, where Berger transmits a message to an incoming transporter telling them he will make sure there is no opposition upon their arrival.

I found the Pak storyline a little slow to get started, but I was intrigued by the time they reached the beach. Pak’s claim that they just don’t ‘understand’ Carpathia was a little cryptic. It does lead Stella and Tate to discuss the possibility that the supernatural isn’t quite so unnatural on Carpathia, a theory supported by Pak seeing his dog and Tate seeing his children. Stella’s not buying it. Will something happen soon to change her mind?

Maybe the fossils hold some of the clues too. We have more humanoid bones this week and, in addition, a fish fossil too. Could humanoids and animals have lived on Carpathia in the past? Stella mentions a fossil being a ‘time machine’ – was this a generalised comment or is there a possibility that time travel of some sort is involved?

The two things that really grabbed my attention this week were the diamonds being cut and the stinging flies. How could so many flawless, cut diamonds be washed up continuously by the sea? Where could they have possibly come from? The flies are a bit vaguer (maybe an entomology-inclined reader could shed some light): why would the flies have evolved a defense mechanism without something to defend themselves again? The only things we’ve seen so far on Carpathia are plants and flies. Is there more life out there?

A more immediate concern is CT-10. The people of Forthaven were told that CT-9 was the last transporter from earth, so who is on CT-10 and what do they want? And why is Julius Berger apparently the only one with knowledge of CT-10s existence?

What did you think of this week’s Outcasts? Let us know in the comments below!

Episode 6 airs on SUNDAY 27 February on BBC One.

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  • Debra Brooks

    Possibly the most boring drama I have ever watched

  • Adrian

    Now I understand Outcasts. At some time in the near future all the members of the militant wing of the Ramblers Association were judged to be to violent and stupid to intigrate into civilised society. So…. they were all shipped off to another planet were they lived all hunkered down together. The law was everyone has to WALK EVERYWHERE. No cars, bicycles or any form of transport is allowed.

    They are so dim that when an old man walks into the bar (obviously no guards or CCTV on the gate) and offers to pay for whisky with CUT diamonds nobody is that impressed. Instead of barraging him with questions on the lines of “Gosh, we thought we were the only settlement on this planet, where have you come from?” they try and beat him up in a “bar fight”. This obviously shows why they were kicked off Earth in the first place!

    These are people that think you can sit on a beach within walking distance of the fort and collect CUT diamonds from the sand and it is all normal! No really!

    There is a surfit of expository dialogue and a few people get shot for no obvious reasons, but nobody cares, least of all the viewers.

    Obviously every Rambler worth their salt needs a good dog to go walking with, so in future episodes they will all fight each other to the death for the only dog on the planet (Don’t ask) and nobody will ever know what happened as nobody will be watching.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=277002562 Mark Harrison

    I want this series to be great, but it’s not. In fact it is horrific. Lost had plenty of bizarre plots, but somehow they made it work.

    I might end up watching the rest but that will be largely because I have the strangest crush on Hermione Norris.

  • Matthew Gibson

    I love it. I keep seeing negative reviews about it – but I guess I might be different. Most tv shows seem shallow and pointless to me – but outcasts is pretty good. Characters and their situations seem much more believable than most shows I’ve seen. Your not fed a frivolous the-world-is-nice-because-its-happy or the-world-is-nice-because-its-gruesome-and-exciting story line. The questions raised and character conflicts brought up actually have some depth to them. This is my type of show. If only more people liked it, there would be more like it.

    That being said, it has its issues. Central characters are introduced and killed off in the same episode. I would say the personalities of the characters in the show seem foundationally similar – though I kind of like that as it makes it seem more believable as people who are not like ‘ourselves’ as they’ve collectively seen and experienced things that have shaped their collective culture.

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