Harlova even tells him he now has the power to start a revolution…if he so chooses. He’s been promoted several spots to Major and has immediately a world historical figure and national hero and celebrity.įor someone as honest and unassuming as Lev, it’s hard to keep up, especially when his post-launch job is all about schmoozing, marketing, and propaganda. Lev feels a bit disoriented after returning to Earth too. The effect of her going out into the sunlight is very well-done, evoking pain and disorientation. The radio relays Lev’s words to the masses, which Irina recognizes as her own, then hears about the kholodets and weeps in happiness. Anya lets her know Lev made it to space, and the throngs of celebrating Zirnitrans outside confirm the success. The launch occurs in the middle of the day, when Irina is still in bed. While in orbit, Lev borrows Irina’s words to describe what he sees, and then uses kholodets as a code word to let her know, wherever she is, that he’s thinking of her. Then again, the team learned a lot from the problems that occured during Irina’s test flight, and it looks like they were able to use her data to solve those problems. The launch goes off without a hitch it’s almost too problem-free. Mikhail joins him outside, and offers Lev congratulations, now that he knows why Lev was chosen over him: because Lev is an everyman. Everyone is worried until he says he just needs to take a leak, and the bus erupts in laughter and relief. On the bus ride to the launch pad, Lev suddenly asks the driver to stop, and makes a face that wouldn’t look out of place on Irina. All it was missing was a first kiss…though their first “bite” a few weeks ago arguably already achieved that! But is it a cold Monday, the second-shortest day of the year, and this was exactly the fun upbeat ending I both wanted and needed? ALSO SURE. Lev makes a stink about being used as a pawn by Gergiev and Harlova, but it ultimately doesn’t matter that much because a.) somehow, Lev and Irina (and presumably Anya) escape any kind of consequences for basically committing high treason-at least in the country that had been portrayed to this point-and b.) they’re both alive, together again, and the twin faces of hope for a better world, and a future where they travel to the moon together.ĭid this ending strain credulity a bit? Sure. Later, Gergiev uses Lev’s and Irina’s modifications to the ceremony to tell the world that, actually, Zirnitra is the progressive, tolerant nation of the future, and these two crazy kids are proof positive! Then he hands the mic to the true Hero of Zirnitra.Ī lot of the crowd is not initially open to listening to what they perceive as an evil monster to say, but the more Irina talks, the more she sounds like just a young girl who dreamed of reaching the stars, and frikkin’ did it. He made his estranged parents, and more importantly Irina, proud. In front of the largest audience in human history, Lev decided that lies wouldn’t do. ![]() I did not think it would be in front of 200,000 Zirnitrans, Chairman Gergiev, and a TV and radio audience of 3 billion. I expected there to be some bittersweet way Irina and Lev would be reunited. There, a seemingly obedient Lev is giving the speech he was told to give…until suddenly he’s talking about how he actually isn’t the first cosmonaut, but the second, after a 17-year-old vampire girl! As he gives her her proper due by describing everything he loves about her, she breaks from the crowd, and with help from Anya (using herself as a missile!), manages to reach Lev before the sun knocks her out. And boy, does she ever, drugging the guards and sneaking off to the ceremony in the Zirnitran equivalent of Red Square. Having watched Irina and Lev risk their lives so many times for each other and their country (very much in that order), Anya has decided it’s her turn to put everything on the line.
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