Courtesy of AMC+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHe wants to rule the Moon, and Sonda is secretly in cahoots with him even as she pretends to be loyal to Maite on the one hand and pretends to be loyal to ICON on the other. But the narrative is actually really straightforward. There is a faction of rebels on the Moon who seek to take it over and keep the power of IO to themselves, denying the Bridge and any plans to help the Earth. Tomm is a key figure in this conspiracy. Strego was bringing him the flower compass thing but then had a change of heart when he learned Bella was Chill\u2019s sister. So he hid it for her, undermining Tomm\u2019s plans, until Arlo finds it at the end of \u201cMada\u201d and it turns out Tomm is lying in wait to say, \u201cthanks.\u201d<\/p>\n
This story is not exactly nuanced, but that doesn\u2019t keep Moonhaven<\/em> from being fun. If you want to know what I thought the series could be, you can read what I wrote on the first two episodes. If you want to hear me lament how it went another way, you can read what I wrote on Episode 3. I\u2019m really going to try here, and moving forward, to just take the show on its own terms and go along for the ride.<\/p>\nCourtesy of AMC+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nI do continue to wonder if ICON has some secret agenda we\u2019re not privy to yet. \u201cMada\u201d sees Paul\u2019s son Wish (along with others) getting ready to form the First Wave of Mooners setting off to help the Mother (Earth) and explores a bit the question of how receptive Earthers would be when it comes down to it.<\/p>\n
Wish expects a war. His planned drop site is in the desert, and it\u2019s hard to see how this plan is supposed to work in line with the rhetoric that has been put forward. Given the events in Indira\u2019s past we saw last week—which she suggested taught a lesson but one she apparently didn\u2019t learn from—I have to wonder if the plan is actually for the powerful on Earth to just take the bounty of the Moon for themselves. Does IO\u2019s technology perhaps include an ability for them to summarily dispatch with the poor and downtrodden?<\/p>\nCourtesy of AMC+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWe get the story of the Moon in S1E4, as told in a child\u2019s play, which includes a time when IO decided the slate had to be wiped clean and the project begun again. Blood leads to blood, so on the second attempt we get the whole idea of water parents instead of people raising their biological children, but what exactly happened to that first round of Mooners who fell into problematic tribalism?<\/p>\n
Could that be a part of the actual plan with regard to Earth—something akin to genocide? Or might it be a risk the Mooners again face now that tribalism of a sort is asserting itself once again? Just how much power does IO have? And is there any way to bypass Maite\u2019s approval?<\/p>\nCourtesy of AMC+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPaul and Arlo determine that the flower Strego killed Chill over was leading her somewhere. Given the indication of aliens (or Others), along with the claim that Bella\u2019s mother didn\u2019t die but disappeared, I have to wonder if this is where the flower leads. Perhaps Maite is right and Loa did find them. Maybe there is a connection between the rebels and these aliens, and it is their influence that has derailed the project.<\/p>\nCourtesy of AMC+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nPersonally, I hope they are good benevolent aliens, but either way I\u2019m prepared at this point for Moonhaven<\/em> to just keep pushing past its inaugural premise. In S1E4 we again see the strange girl that Bella saw previously when she went beyond the settlement\u2019s walls. I\u2019m curious how she fits into all of this.<\/p>\nThe powers that be recently took<\/a> Raised by Wolves<\/em><\/a> from us, and perhaps it is all of the Mother talk that\u2019s putting me in mind of that series, but at this point I\u2019m rooting for Moonhaven<\/em> to get just as bananas as that show was. Let\u2019s just keep making this whole thing more baroque!<\/p>\nCourtesy of AMC+<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSee you next week. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The following contains spoilers for Moonhaven S1E4, “Mada” (written by Al Letson and directed by Laura Belsey) I guess there are aliens in this story now? Alright, then. Of course, to be precise we don\u2019t actually know coming out of Moonhaven S1E4 that there really are aliens, just that Maite believes that there are, but […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":252609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28,815,2969],"yoast_head":"\nMoonhaven S1E4: "Mada" Do You Think They'll Drop the Bomb? | TV Obsessive<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n