So, while Ash and Amanda contend with Evil Lem, Kelly and Pablo evade the militia. SORRY FAM, I have high standards for my sequels and remakes.) (I know I’m a minority here, but I found the “Deadite pretends to be mom singing ‘Hush Little Baby’” callback from episode two so obvious it was a little pandering.
The connection might be oblique, but that kind of second-layer callback (“Ash gets mistaken for the bad guy and locked in a basement with a Deadite”) can be even more rewarding than some of the more literal callbacks. It also draws inspiration from AvED’s source material - specifically, Ash getting locked in the cellar by Jake, Bobby Jo, Ed, and Annie in EDII - and repurposes it in a fun new context. Setting Ash up between a group of gun toting idiots and the undead that wants them all to be “unalive” adds that extra level of tension and peril, and forces Ash to be crafty and diplomatic in addition to being a loudmouth with a boomstick. So far this season, other characters standing between Ash and the Deadite ass-kicking only he can deliver has mostly taken the form of awkward conversations (the dinner party in Episode 2) or brief standoffs (every Fisher encounter up to now), but now we see Ash dealing with an actual rock-and-a-hard-place threat between this amateur army and the lurking Evil around them. Pablo and Kelly escape into the woods while Ash and Fisher are handcuffed to each other and thrown into a bunker where Lem lurks in darkness.Īs soon as the word “militia” was brought up last week, I began fantasizing about a set-up like this, and AvED came through. One of the militiamen recognizes Fisher as a cop just as Evil Lem attacks. Already hyped up on suspicion, the militiamen naturally assume Ash and crew are part of the assault on their clearly well-regulated militia. The Ghostbeaters walk right into a crossfire of a paranoid militia fighting off one of their own possessed members, whose insanity, of course, they can only attribute to “Big Brother put some kind of virus in our air supply, turned Lem into some kind of Mummy!” Ah, I was hoping AvED would find a way to address the Chemtrails conspiracy. Unfortunately Lem, having been Deaditerized at the end of “Killer of Killers” has also made it back to the camp. Having earned the trust of Amanda Fisher, Ash and crew head out into the woods of Michigan to stock up on “some big boy toys” from Lem’s militia before they head back to The Cabin Where It All Began. “Fire in the Hole” builds off the momentum of last week’s “Killer of Killers” (Michael Hurst returns with more crackerjack directing), and offers all the same zippy dialogue and fun little character moments of last week with even more evenly paced (and evenly toned) scenes of blood and scares. A high-octane balance of jokes, corniness, and gore, with enough intrigue and peril to give everyone something to do, build out the world a little, and keep the whole thing moving smoothly. This “Fire in the Hole” has everything and no dead space (heh heh). Gimme some sugar baby, THIS is what I’m talking about.
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