“It’s the greatest gift you’ll give her.” To which Sunny gulps big time. “If you care for her, don’t go back,” the suprisingly good-natured assassin warns our hero. Moon’s own family was murdered by the nomads he worked with because he thought he could have the exact same thing.
It’s meant to introduce a mysterious and formidable character, a gentle killer who represents Sunny’s greatest fear about being a Clipper: that he will never have a normal life with Veil and his child. The focus of the episode is supposed to be on Sunny and Baije meeting a legendary Clipper known as Nathaniel Moon, not the Widow and Waldo’s cloak and dagger fun. But it’s all good I watched your first season, so I know there will be lulls. But in the third episode? Really? Now you’re just padding things out, Into the Badlands. If, say, this had been closer towards the finale and built around whatever climax takes place then, I would cut it some slack for trying to create tension. I’m not a fan of storytelling like that, especially when it’s used this early on in a season. It builds up an event that doesn’t get a payoff within the same hour.
That is precisely why “Red Sun, Silver Moon” is a tease.