Deus Ex Machina Award 2010

Our second award for 2010 is the Deus Ex Machina award for the show that utilizes the least free will and most out of nowhere divine help to save a plot.
Since its the first one, I feel safe enough go back to a show from 2006, already reviewed Space Casey.

****WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD****

For a show that reveals that The Old Ones are not gods, Space Casey sure shows a divine hand in everything.
Plot devices  that included Deus Ex Machina devices were:
-Casey's spit being a drug for one of her captors
- Casey convincing a guard that he couldn't stop her escape because he might hurt her and she was ordered not to be injured (The intervention against common sense arrived here)
- Casey hearing the entire plan of the hustlers called "The Old Ones" because... well she asked. (Once again, God's intervention is to make everyone dumber than Casey)
- A man comes to save the day with a fleet of warships that appear literally out of nowhere because throughout the whole time they had the entire situation of time excursions under control.


This brings us to the problem that Space Casey is perhaps the weakest female character created in modern audio drama. She is a confidence hustler who was incapable of hustling nearly anyone without tears. She is painted as someone who does not care about anyone but herself but balks at the idea of saving herself and the ship if this means erasing the personality of the ship's A.I. (Why?)
And not only is she saved by a man at the end of the series. She actually swoons for him (especially because of his xeno-physiological differences from her own species).
Now I ask you. If a man wrote the story of Space Casey. Wouldn't there be a moral outrage from women everywhere?
And rightly so.
Here's hoping Space Casey 2 (and I do hope for that), shows some smarts from the heroine as well as a whole lot more action instead of passivity to her fate.