The following contains spoilers for Archer Season 10 Episode 1.

Archer is kind of the perfect example of how you can’t tell a television show what it’s not allowed to do. This is all too appropriate since the same can essentially be said for Archer, the character, as well. If an animated comedy about spies doesn’t want to be about spies anymore, then it ends. It doesn’t turn the team into drug runners, or become a stylish noir mystery, or a throwback to adventure serials from the ‘50s. Archer has inexplicably turned into all of these things and more and it hasn’t shown a dip in its confidence.

Somewhere the series’ main character is lingering in a coma that he may or may not pull out of, but at this point it’s clear that Adam Reed and company are more interested in playing “What If?” with its cast of characters than anything else. Maybe this season will finally tie up loose ends, or maybe it will just segue into “Blazing Archer,” a Western facelift for the show.

This season turns the series into Archer: 1999, a glowing love letter to science fiction and space operas, with inspiration coming from classic films like Alien. Archer’s cast has seen some extremely weird transformations over the past few years, but Archer: 1999 may take the space-cake. Krieger is an android, Malory is a ball of energy, and Pam is a freaking rock monster now.