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As I've spent the last week sitting back and contemplating how to approach this episode, I've found myself increasingly unsure what my stance on it is. "Until the Sky Falls" is the long-delayed punch knocking our cast of characters back as hard as it can, and it ends with the party in the worst position they have ever been in this season... but even in doing so, it doesn't feel like an awe-inspiring distillation of the power of Final Space's story-telling dramatics. Instead, if it's not an actively frustrating episode, it's one that feels strangely out-of-step, not with the season's ambitions so much as the pace that it's been maintaining and thriving off of over this past stretch of episodes.
Perhaps it's important for me to single out what I think the greatest successes of Season 3 has been. Whereas Season 1 was intensely serialized, gelling together outside of its most pivotal moments and feeling perhaps too straight-shooting, Season 2 was more episodic, telling contained stories with a greater narrative diversity, to varying degrees of success and failure. Both seasons were remarkable, but flawed, and yet the greatest strength of Final Space persisted as its ability to burrow so deep into your soul with its dramatics: the betrayal, the sacrifice, the loss, the reconciliation. Season 3 continues to hold true to those most powerful of traits, all while weaving together the first two season's greatest qualities, predominantly through thoughtful, probing character work. Its episodes have all fed into the season's dark atmosphere, but they've also fearlessly dug into its cast, unafraid to make shocking revelations and bear witness to the gritty aftermath.