This week on 'Lovecraft Country,' Hippolyta has a wild adventure through time and space to kick ass, take names, and become her truest self. Alan Sepinwall's recap
It takes us a while to get to Hippolyta’s incredible journey. The first half of “I Am” is about as traditionally structured as this show gets. There’s a very Spielberg-ian teaser focusing on Hippolyta’s attempts to unlock Hiram’s orrery. Soon, though, we are checking in on the other characters mere moments after the end of the fifth episode, with Ruby still absorbing the news that “William” has really been Christina, and Atticus telling Leti about the pages he has decoded.
The fight ends with one cop shot to death by Hippolyta, the other lost in the time-space rift created by the machine. Then Tic and Hippolyta are both drawn into the portal’s force field. She’s sucked in completely; we don’t know what happens to Tic, other than that he returns to the observatory now clutching a book with the same title as this TV show, and runs out without noticing that one of Diana’s homemade comic books is lying by the dead cop’s body.
But by this point, her journey is taking us to an African village, where she finds herself being trained in the way of the warrior, for what will turn out to be a brutal battle against… Confederate soldiers? It’s a potent fantasy — the idea of defenders of slavery having to go up against a cadre of unchained, armed, highly-trained black women — and also something of a parallel to/repudiation of John Carter’s adventures on Mars, which Atticus defended reading near the beginning of the series...
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