The determinedly second-tier fantasy series has reached season three, bringing with it some of the most effortful and painful things I have ever had to witness on screen
For those of you whom the vagaries of fortune have thwarted, and who have not yet had the pleasure of suckling at the teat of determinedly second-tier fantasy adventure series The Outpost (Syfy), let me bring you up to speed before we consider the opener to season three.
Talon is the lone survivor of the massacre of her Blackblood clan. Blackbloods are a kind of human with added agility and strength and pointy ears. Occasionally, they also have the power to open a portal to the Plane of Ashes and let other Blackbloods and, alas, Lu-Qiri monsters into this realm. Talon is played by Jessica Green, who boasts a completely immobile face. Given the desultory, sub-Buffy special effects in this strangely sparsely funded offering, this facial void is actually one of the show’s most effective draws.
