I'll be honest and say I wasn't really feeling much for this episode. It was interesting to see more of the Mutraddi since I thought that they were races of monsters and living weapons under Modula's control. But apparently that wasing the case. A living bomb did make sense for a weapon since that would be the easiest way for them to destroy the princess.
Tashy was pretty cute and I did get some giggles over Lance actually bonding with him in secret. It looked cute, especially given his tough/loner appearance. While I felt a bit bad for them when Octus told them that he was dying, and the dialogue near the end did relate to some of my personal experiences, I really didn't understand why they were that upset over it. Especially when Illana said something like this was the hardest thing they've face. For some reason, I'd imagine leaving your father and basically entire world to hide away would be harder. Despite its cuteness, I didn't understand why they were that attached to Tashy. Maybe if they had it for more than a day and either showed a montage of scenes playing with him or kept him around for a couple more episodes, I'd feel for sympathetic and understand why Lance and Illana were so attached to him. However, the music that they played during the transformation sequence was pretty moving.
Still, the ending with coming up with the name of Tashy 497 was kind of cute. That and along with Lance playing around with it and the music near the end were pretty much the only parts of the episode that I liked. It was decent at best, but I didn't think it was that interesting or really that emotional.