Haven "Chosen" Episode Review

That awkward moment when you discover that your girlfriend is a thousand-year-old alien and the mom of one of your work friends.  Poor Dwight.  Well, they'll always have the hospital storage room.

Totally called it on the whole "Charlotte fixing Mara's whoopsies" thing, although they kinda telegraphed it with her CDC cover.  I'll give myself one pat on the back for my insight.  And in case you weren't satisfied with just one plot point lifted from Star Trek, Mara and Audrey had to be smooshed back together like Kirk in "The Enemy Within."  Is this a setup for the introduction of William Shatner into the series?

Gotta love the technicality of the "if Mara dies" clause.  Reminds me of the "certain point of view" caveat from Star Wars.  We've got our fully reconstituted Audrey back, but the Duke-bomb went off anyway and released a whole other season's worth of troubles into the world.  And if the ones he leaked out before he erupted are any indication (EXPLODY TOUCH), lots of fun post-break mayhem will ensue--maybe even enough to finally get on all the social media that exists in the twenty-first century.  I mean seriously, what is up with Haven's teenagers?  I'm guessing no one's gonna update their Facebook status to "glad to be out of that boat we were magically trapped in."  The Guard may be good at damage control, but they can't do an end-run on every kid's iPhone.  For every large-scale trouble Audrey and the Audreyettes have solved, there should be someone in the background yelling out "WORLDSTAR!  WORLDSTAR!"  Anyway...

Vince and Dave's excellent adventure leads them to a rock carved with the word "Croatoan" recently carved into it.  As we all know, Haven takes place in the Kingiverse and we've already seen references to King's other works, but they've usually been subtle.  An appearance by Linoge from Storm of the Century would be a much bigger deal, and probably not up the show's alley.  Plus, they'd have some serious retconning to do; the backstory of Haven's Roanoke mystery is a departure from the weird-demon-guy-comes-and-takes-kid-or-destroys-whole-town-if-they-refuse plot of the other story.  So what is Dave? And what is the thingamajig that he picked up from the cave?  Perhaps it is a creature from the Void itself, one of the many reasons why the Otherworlders don't hold truck with gallivanting back and forth.  I eagerly await the answers to some of these questions--but not all of them, as mystery is part of what makes Haven tick.

RANDOM THOUGHTS:

How cool was Mara's tipsy rant in the car?  She was a very bad lady, but she will be missed.

I would like to see a Veronica flashback, please.

On Bewitched, a witch couldn't undo a spell made by another witch.  I sense a similar thing in effect here, as a being powerful enough to slam two people into one seems flummoxed by the Troubles.  However, Mara is portrayed as kind of an innovator in aether science, and a people that eschews trans-world travel might have a bit of trouble wrapping their heads around Mara's accomplishments.


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