Ouroboros

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Quotation
"Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind. Knowing when the drumming stops, There'll be no second dance." Ulatempa Poetess, "Rhythms" CY 9825
Information
Season Two
Summary
Last Episode
2x11 - Bunker Hill

Synopisis

Als die Magog-Larven in Seamus Harper Körper zu schlüpfen drohen, versucht er mit Hilfe von Direktor Hohne und seinem Assistenten Rekeeb eine Maschine zu bauen, die ihn durch Verzerrungen in Raum und Zeit, retten soll.

Continuity

• Hohne appears in The Banks of the Lethe (1x08), Into the Labyrinth (2x09) and Through A Glass Darkly (5x11)
• Ulatempa provides the episode-quotes for three episodes more: Angel Dark, Demon Bright (1x06), It Makes A Lovely Light (1x21) and Dance of the Mayflies (2x15)

Comments from the Crew

• Harpers comment on the events:

"Hallelujah they're gone!
Right. So the last time you heard from me I was whining about this pain in my gut where I was BEING EATEN ALIVE FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
Ahem, anyway, yeah. I had this little Magog larvae infestation problem and it really sucked. I mean, really really sucked. There was this awful medicine that sort of slowed them down for a while, but believe me, it was creepy having these little aliens crawling around in my stomach, munching on anything they could find. And it was always hanging over my head - no cure, just a slow death.
Well - I'm all better now. With a little help from the genius half of my brain, and a Persied or two, we got this little problem all figured out. See we fold space, and ... well... screw up time pretty bad... and well it was pretty messy. It's a long story, but one of the research team didn't even make it out alive. (Poor Höne, I barely knew you.)
But believe me, buddy. I really appreciate the sacrifice to science... and my well-being. Besides, I think every Persied's dream is to die from an experiment gone awry."
(Andromedatv.com)

• Trance on her metamorphosis:

"What the heck happened to you?
People just keep asking me this, so I finally decided to write it down. That way I can just hand them this note instead of starting from the beginning again.
It's like this. Things in the future are bad, really bad, and getting worse. The future I have seen is a place no one wants to live in. Yes, there is one possibility for a perfect future but I haven't see it yet. I can't say anymore about it. The future. If I do it would be dangerous for me and for you.
But here I am and I am different. Maybe. Harper's attempt to exterminate the Magog eggs in his stomach created a watershed event in space and time, but it's also caused a serious crisis. A crisis that if we - I - didn't handle correctly could have ended poorly for all of us.
Which leads to the "new" me. I mean, I'm still Trance, I just grew up. Yes, I did switch places with myself which allowed me to grow up really fast from your point of view, but I didn't go anywhere."
(Andromedatv.com)

Quotes

• "Farewell my friends, my family
  Ever since my time on the Magog ship I've felt lost; confused. I don't have answers for what I'm feeling or why, but I thought it time I started asking questions, wherever they might lead.
  Until I see you all again, know this - wherever my path may lead, even in the darkest places, I will carry you all in my heart and you will light my way.
  Always."

~ Rev Bem

References

Title

• The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon swallowing its own tail and forming a circle. It has been used to represent many things over the ages, but it most generally symbolizes ideas of cyclicality, unity, or infinity. (Wikipedia)

Episode

• Harper: "Engineer, heal thyself."
  

From the Bible, Luke 4:23 (King James Version):
And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.
Meaning: Attend to one's own faults, in preference to pointing out the faults of others.
(Phrases)

Information

Trivia

• For this episode Francesca von Zimmermann and Ryan Nicholson won the Gemini-Award 2002 for "Best Achievement in Make-up"
• This episode marked a turning point in the series: Brent Stait left the production because of Make Up problems, the Magog maggots in Harper were entirely removed and Trance were transformed. The storyarc

• Diese Folge stellt einen bedeutenden Einschnitt dar: verlässt aufgrund Problemen mit dem Make-Up die Serie (in dieser Folge spricht er nur noch Rev Bem, während ein anderer Schauspieler in seine Rolle schlüpft), Harpers Larven werden entfernt und Trance "verwandelt" sich. Ab hier wird immer mehr auf einen übergreifenden Handlungsbogen zugunsten von in sich abgeschlossenen Einzelepisoden verzichtet.

Guest stars

• Emy Aneke (as Eme Aneke) as Thompson
• Kristina Copeland as Kylie Vance
• Alex Diakun as Hohne
• Rik Kiviaho as Rekeeb
• Brent Stait as Rev Bems voice

Production

• Air Date: 28.01.2002
• Season Two production crew
• Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
• Director: Jorge Montesi
• Cur: Eric Hill
• Script