Notes: After ReBoot, I said "No more." No more Canadian CGI action/humor/fantasy shows with clever dialogue and intriguing setups and fun characters! It's too hard, when they go off the air! It's too hard! I'm not made of stone, people! - I can't have my heart broken again!
But yet, here I am.
(And ReBoot's coming back, so there.)
The summary line is from Judges 16:22, with Samson and all, and this takes place immediately after "Talon Academy". The night blindness is for my own amusement.
"There has to be some way to fix it. I know there is!"
Piper's got that gleam in her eye - that determined gleam, the one she gets when someone drops a challenge in her lap - and Aerrow abruptly sees long hours as a lab rat in his future. Most of the time, nearly all of the time, her experiments are dazzling successes. But sometimes... Well. Crystals aren't picky about who they explode on.
So he backpedals away from his complaints, as fast and gracefully as he can, which is not very. "Uh, no, I mean - it's a pain, but it's okay. I don't want you to, um, go to any trouble."
"It won't be any trouble," she says, cheerfully waving him off, rummaging around her lab for who-knows-what. "I've been working on this new project, and the results have been amazing. At first it didn't work at all, but then I figured out that I just had to change the exposure time-"
She goes on, but Aerrow tunes her out in favor of silently brooding. His hair. Why did it have to be his hair? And why the heck has Radarr been suggesting it's better this way?
"- for rapid plant growth, actually - but I'm sure I can modify it." Piper concludes with a relentlessly sunny, "Just a few tweaks here and there, and voila! - you'll be as good as new!"
Whoa, whoa. He may have missed a few things, but - Plant growth? Rapid plant growth? You don't have to be a pessimistic doomsaying Merb to see that has disaster written all over it.
Aerrow grits his teeth and tries not to wince at the monumental lie as he says it: "It's just hair. It'll... grow out?"
She looks at him like he's grown a new head, instead of having had his existing one shaved practically bald. "Are you sure? I know I laughed at you before, and I'm sorry... but, um... Are you sure you don't want me to try?"
Aerrow forces a grin. It looks as fake as it feels, but not as fake as his bright tone. "Yes! Absolutely. I'm thinking of it as a, uh - as a character-building opportunity."
"Well... okay." Piper doesn't believe him, he can tell. She's giving him a suspicious, fishy, sideways stare, and it might be tinged with hurt... which makes him kinda feel like a big, mostly-bald jerk... but, hey, she said it was okay, didn't she?
"Great! Thanks!" he says, and makes a break for it.