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and while things seem dire as they fall off the collapsing facility and toward the planet below, they're not falling into darkness, they're falling into LIGHT
and keith is marked for his love and succeeds in summoning the black bayard (shiro's legacy, the weapon shiro died holding) to free shiro of this control and corruption
there is just smth so special abt the visuals in this episode - keith hurtling himself into the unknown after shiro, descending into a literal underworld to go and save him - the b&w moon, the greenish light & black water, it's all so deathly and eerily beautiful