‘Outcast’ Recap: ‘To the Sea’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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​There are a lot of dark questions, that we would prefer to never ask ourselves. But sometimes, the mere wandering of our mind, allows for those questions to come up and if there is one line of questioning that I think we all ponder upon at some point in time, is how we would live our final days, if we knew that the end of the world was coming. Would we be noble and face the end proudly? Would we fight whatever was coming our way with our last breath? Or would we step aside and simply let the end wash over us.
 
These are of course, questions that only one can answer for themselves, and perhaps in a way, there’s no wrong way to answer them. But I do know, that this line of questioning leads to others, because that’s just how our minds work and when we ponder upon bad things, and along that line of thinking, we also wonder if we can set a difficult situation right which begs another question…if one was able to save billions of lives and prevent the apocalypse, at the cost of a few, would one make that sacrifice so that others could endure? As you can see the line of questioning simply gets darker and usually at this point, we move on to other things rather than continue down the rabbit hole. But thankfully, fiction is there to explore the places we don’t want to go and oddly enough, the end of the world and all the questions that I just posed were front and center in the season two finale of Outcast, ‘To the Sea’.
 
But, before we get to discussing how all those ideas and questions come together, we need to talk about how a few loose ends and new surprises were sent our way in this tale. Like what happened to Megan after she ran into Dr. Park and as it turns out, he kept her hidden away to observe as to whether or not the baby inside Megan’s womb would turn out to be the monster he and Blake were hoping for and while she worked on an escape route, we came to learn that there is a powerful beacon handling Park’s affairs and research and that, one way or another Park is going to use Megan to get the answers he desires, and that’s downright scary for Megan and Holly since they’re now on the run from everyone and everything and haven’t a clue that Park will soon be hot on their tails.

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​As for answering the questions that I posed earlier, well that turned out to be quite the surprise after all because it would seem that everyone wanted to answer those particular questions with a resounding yes. For Anderson and Giles wanted to stand tall and fight the end with their dying breaths and Simon Barnes as it turned out, was good with doing everything and anything necessary to save the world from the end, including sacrificing lives to make that happen since he brought together as many beacons as he could find and asked all of them to die so that their blood would be spilled and that in turn close the biggest portal that we’ve ever seen on the series and this is an idea that quite frankly, did not settle well with Kyle. Because it meant the death of his daughter as well and while he was happy to say goodbye to give her a better future, he was not comfortable with robbing her of one.
 
So instead, Kyle did what he always does and fought, and fought hard and with the help of his friends he was able to put an end to the wholesale slaughter coming his way, but at a great cost. For who knows how many evil spirits escaped from that portal, and whether Simon likes it or not, the fight just got all that much harder and well, I have to agree with Kyle on this one, I think he made the right call when all is said and done. Because it was clear in this story that the bad parts that come with being a beacon twisted Simon’s mind in ways no one thought possible and in many ways his idea felt cowardly, since it would still cause harm and lasting psychological damage to those left behind and even if it worked, I get the feeling it only would have delayed the inevitable. After all, we know there are plenty more beacons out there and it would only be a matter of time before evil figured out a way back to our world once again since this whole mess seems quite cyclical.
 
Regardless, season two ends exactly as season one did, with uncertainty and fear surrounding Kyle and his family but man, what an ending when all is said and done. Because now the fight has expanded, and Kyle will have to figure out how to battle this evil without his father at his side since dear old dad is downright dangerous and perhaps what I like most about this finale is quite frankly the uncertainty that I made mention of a moment ago. We really haven’t a clue as to what is coming next for Kyle Barnes and I get the feeling what happened here basically screwed everything up in epic fashion and alas, all we can do is wait now for season three and see exactly how the Barnes family will regroup before taking the fight to the monsters that roam our world. Until next year. 

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