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| The residents of a small,
unnamed town on the Sea of Sand ask for the guys' help. It seems
the mayor's daughter Machela is holed up in the tower that controls the
dam. She doesn't want the dam drained because she's protecting a
huge sand dragon, which somehow contains the spirit of her (lost? dead?
transformed?) fiance Laban. Evidently Machela's dad opposed the
marriage. The sand dragon is also protecting Machela from the angry (or desperate) villagers who are trying to drain the sand before the town is deluged by it. Sheyenne manages to bind the dragon to a rusting tower for a little while, but the dragon breaks free. Sheyenne then makes his way into the tower, where Machela tells him her story. Eventually some of the village men break in, overpower Machela and Sheyenne, and toss Machela out the window (!). So now Sheyenne AND the dragon are right royally PO'd. In the meantime, the villagers have blown up part of the dam, washing the dragon waaay downstream in the process. Sheyenne plunges out the window to rescue Machela before she drowns, and both of them somehow wind up in a room under the sand (the dragon's lair?). Machela shows him the "treasure" he's been searching for, a statue that looks just like her. Laban had to retrieve it in order to get permission to marry her. The dragon swims up the falls like a salmon while the villagers crank up a huge ship or barge (that somehow incorporates lost technology) to seal the gaping hole they just made in the dam. Sheyenne and Machela scramble onto the barge, and the dragon sacrifices himself to seal the breach and keep Machela from going over the falls with the ship. Machela is left to mourn her dead-again fiance. Let's hope the village gives him a decent burial this time. |
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This
may be the most confusing mishmash of an episode EVER. It's never made clear whether Laban is transformed into a dragon, whether he dies and possesses the dragon, or something else, or WHY any of this happened. It's also not clear whether the ocean has ALWAYS been sand. It looks like water until the big transformation sequence, when it turns yellow. Machela also hasn't thought through the logistics. This relationship is doomed from the start--she'd never survive the honeymoon. Other than that, she's exactly the sort of woman I'd expect to live on Filgaia--tough, determined, and able to out-shoot the men. Yes, the girls make an appearance in this episode, but they don't do much. |
