Basically, she wants to teach them responsibility. She wants to teach the dark ones discipline and balance while also protecting the lives of innocents from any violent acts they may incite. Her methods to contain them (like inducing comas by sticking pointy needles in them, for example) are questionable indeed. Pilgrim confronts The Master on her own turf, emancipating the Abbots with the promise of more freedom-but under whose control? Azra’s, apparently, which is just a pretty way of saying Pilgrim’s.īut the points he makes about how The Master controls the dark gifts of those who follow her are valid.
But “Cobra Fang, Panther Claw” starts off with a different fight, one that manifests the larger ideological conflict happening across this season on the physical plain.
