Aahana Swrup
Season 4 of ‘Love Death + Robots’ brings many eccentric and impactful stories captured through a myriad of interesting animation styles. However, episode 6, titled ‘Golgotha,’ blends the live-action medium to explore themes of a looming doomsday. The story revolves around a fleet of extraterrestrial creatures who have invaded Earth’s orbit for unknown reasons. The only person who can act as a liaison between them and the rest of humanity is a Vicar, whose presence the aliens personally request. As it turns out, they believe that the clergyman has a unique perspective on the return of the otherworldly species’ divine savior: a dolphin, who is said to have returned to life after certain death. However, what promises to be a miracle for the aliens doesn’t necessarily mean good things for humanity. SPOILERS AHEAD!
The Vicar Who Witnessed a Resurrection
An alien spaceship enters Earth’s orbit without warning or explanation. Naturally, this leads to mass panic, especially among the military regarding the intentions of the extraterrestrial creatures known as The Lupo. Although they maintain their silence for some time, they eventually reach out with a demand: a meeting with Vicar Donal. A while back, a huge oil spill took over the news as it wreaked havoc on aquatic life. During this chaos, the press highlighted the deaths of a school of Blackfin dolphins that couldn’t be saved from the toxic sludge. However, while the others died, one dolphin returned from her death. In light of this event, Vicar Donal ended up proclaiming the instance as an act of resurrection, which inherently assigns the creature a messianic status. Although the Church maintains a different stance on the matter, the Lupo, it turns out, believes the resurrected Blackfin is indeed a cosmic savior whose return their species has been long awaiting.
Golgotha Ending: Why Do The Lupo Want to Destroy Humans?
The arrival of the Lupo on Earth is abrupt and unforeseen. However, the aliens simply remain still in the immediate aftermath of their entry into the planet’s orbit. For the same reason, the first opportunity of communication is incredibly significant, even as it falls on the shoulders of a low-level Vicar. The thing that sets him apart from the rest of the species is that he witnessed the apparent resurrection of a Blackfin dolphin and proceeded to call media attention to the same, much to the dismay of the Church. The Lupo are also a religious group, and they believe that their messiah is on Earth, as proven by the Blackfin’s recent return from the dead.
Eventually, when the time of the meeting arrives, the alien, an octopus-like being with an aquatic helmet that sustains its life on land, takes a walk along the beachside with Donal. After asking him a few questions about the event, it calls out to the Blackfin, who, interestingly enough, responds to the summoning. As the alien communicates with the Blackfin, it learns all about the various misdeeds humans have committed against aquatic life on the planet. Human influences like oil spills, garbage islands, water pollution, and global warming have long terrorized the sea creatures to the point where their history only reflects acts of rampant murder against them.
Once the alien emissary discovers this information, there’s only one course of action left: the destruction of humanity. There’s nothing Donal can say or do that will change the mind of the Lupo envoy. In that moment, reckoning has arrived for all of humanity’s accumulated violence against sea creatures like the alien invaders and their Blackfin messiah. As such, warships emerge from the horizon, charging into a hostile attack. The human army can only bear their own arms in retaliation.
Yet, it’s evident that their weapons are significantly less advanced in comparison. In the end, a heighter-up priest attempts to ask Donal what had happened during the conversation, to which he can only reply a hysterical “I think we fucked up.” Rather than a commentary on their reception of the Lupo, this is a remark on all of human history. People have consistently sacrificed the peace of the aquatic life for their own benefit without any regard to the damage they are causing. As a result, a Blackfin dolphin messiah and a horde of alien spaceships, populated with sea creatures, are finally doling out just desserts for humanity.
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