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shallowness) wrote2015-02-19 08:59 am
shallowness) wrote2015-02-19 08:59 am
Revelations and plots
Seeing a semi spoily promo for Revenge prompted me to try to be a little less behind.
Revenge 4.4 Meteor (That seems more like a Smallville episode title.)
Emily and co’s belief that Charlotte had called in an assassin was pushing it a bit. Cue Emily-Jack-other cop tension, and no-one allaying Nolan’s freak-out.
My wondering if David had, on any level, recognised his daughter was sidelined by raised eyebrows at his going from stoned complaisance around Victoria to whipping himself alone to really terrible shoplifting. Did he do it intentionally???? (I mean beyond getting caught and going public on his terms – I mean so that his daughter would see him.) That was at the back of my mind from the moment Jack was ‘prepping the witnesses’ and recognised him. The bit where his boss stopped him from forewarning Emily was a bit clumsy, even if they found more use for the chief throughout the episode, but it did add to the tension, before the heartbreak of her shock. I will give them props for getting straight to it.
Daniel calling himself patriarch of the family earned a laugh. All I’ve got to say about his relationships about Margiaux, given the talk about Pascale, and that Louise jus’ wants Victoria to be her second mamma, is that he is, once again, treading on quasi-incestuous ground.
Having Nolan be there to see Emily’s totally understandable freak-out was great. Maybe they thought frenetic camerawork would help convey Emily’s state of mind, but I think they could have trusted the acting. Aww, Jack coming and putting his hand on her shoulder in solidarity made the shipper in me happy. At least her brain was in gear.
David’s conversation with Victoria about being no-one’s prisoner was interesting, and left her unsettled. As unsettled as she should be?
Jack’s convo with fine-I’ll-call-him-Ben raised more implications plotwise, because, of course, David is Carl’s purported grandfather and there’s his history with Jack as a boy quite apart from what Jack knows about Emily/Amanda. But really, it was about Emily, from how her wish that her father could kiss her good night once more had become twisted to him trying to kill her to watching Victoria trample all over David’s public return and claim him as her family.
It’s still beyond preposterous and I don’t think Conrad had much to do with David’s incarceration, and seriously, recently inflicted wounds like that aren’t going to convince anyone for long, but I want to see what happens next for my trio and David.
Ep 5 Crows
Henry’s eyes rove towards Jane Seymour (who is showing off her strengths, not the least of which is her total contrast to Anne) and actually maybe Cromwell didn’t like seeing that happening, though he’d plotted for it. Anne is still headstrong and demanding – in fairness, thinking Henry was dead and then being publicly humiliated was not great for a stressed, pregnant lady. But that’d be the extent of my sympathy for her, a lot of which went in Katherine and Mary’s directions, even though I didn’t trust them not to plot either. Plotting – they’re nearly all at it.
The flashback about the masque about Wolsely makes me cringe every time they use it, even though I wouldn’t remember who was wearing the masks without it. Perhaps because I watched this the same night at Revenge, one almost expects ‘Crom’ to mark those ‘betters’* of his off with a red cross.
The imaginary Wolsely and the flashback to the childhood explanation for the gesture that stopped Henry ranting worked better. I didn’t quite catch what Cromwell’s father had spared him from by buying someone off. Inexcusable, when I was feeling smug that Cromwell had apparently been slow to pick up on the gossip about Anne’s night visitor.
Gregory looked so young. Of course, if he died, all the pressure on Thomas to marry again would make more sense – but the other young men in Thomas’s train seem more like sons. I don't even remember how all Henry's wives are disposed of, but I do know that it was that little girl with ginger curls he was holding who would do quite well by the country, as I remembered during his 'I need a son for legacy' speech. The Henry-Cromwell relationship was nicely complicated throughout, although, if one didn't imagine that like Anne's fool, it was historical, I'd roll my eyes at Cromwell also being the only man in court to know Tudor CPR.
Lots of moments when I wondered how expensive these costumes were, especially the furs (was that a leopard print waistcoat type thing?) and Katherine and Mary’s outfits in particular. How much work had gone into them?
*Amusing to see Downton’s Doctor playing one of the aristos. The Archbishop is growing on me with his deadpan ‘Thank you, Lord Swankypants.’
Revenge 4.4 Meteor (That seems more like a Smallville episode title.)
Emily and co’s belief that Charlotte had called in an assassin was pushing it a bit. Cue Emily-Jack-other cop tension, and no-one allaying Nolan’s freak-out.
My wondering if David had, on any level, recognised his daughter was sidelined by raised eyebrows at his going from stoned complaisance around Victoria to whipping himself alone to really terrible shoplifting. Did he do it intentionally???? (I mean beyond getting caught and going public on his terms – I mean so that his daughter would see him.) That was at the back of my mind from the moment Jack was ‘prepping the witnesses’ and recognised him. The bit where his boss stopped him from forewarning Emily was a bit clumsy, even if they found more use for the chief throughout the episode, but it did add to the tension, before the heartbreak of her shock. I will give them props for getting straight to it.
Daniel calling himself patriarch of the family earned a laugh. All I’ve got to say about his relationships about Margiaux, given the talk about Pascale, and that Louise jus’ wants Victoria to be her second mamma, is that he is, once again, treading on quasi-incestuous ground.
Having Nolan be there to see Emily’s totally understandable freak-out was great. Maybe they thought frenetic camerawork would help convey Emily’s state of mind, but I think they could have trusted the acting. Aww, Jack coming and putting his hand on her shoulder in solidarity made the shipper in me happy. At least her brain was in gear.
David’s conversation with Victoria about being no-one’s prisoner was interesting, and left her unsettled. As unsettled as she should be?
Jack’s convo with fine-I’ll-call-him-Ben raised more implications plotwise, because, of course, David is Carl’s purported grandfather and there’s his history with Jack as a boy quite apart from what Jack knows about Emily/Amanda. But really, it was about Emily, from how her wish that her father could kiss her good night once more had become twisted to him trying to kill her to watching Victoria trample all over David’s public return and claim him as her family.
It’s still beyond preposterous and I don’t think Conrad had much to do with David’s incarceration, and seriously, recently inflicted wounds like that aren’t going to convince anyone for long, but I want to see what happens next for my trio and David.
Ep 5 Crows
Henry’s eyes rove towards Jane Seymour (who is showing off her strengths, not the least of which is her total contrast to Anne) and actually maybe Cromwell didn’t like seeing that happening, though he’d plotted for it. Anne is still headstrong and demanding – in fairness, thinking Henry was dead and then being publicly humiliated was not great for a stressed, pregnant lady. But that’d be the extent of my sympathy for her, a lot of which went in Katherine and Mary’s directions, even though I didn’t trust them not to plot either. Plotting – they’re nearly all at it.
The flashback about the masque about Wolsely makes me cringe every time they use it, even though I wouldn’t remember who was wearing the masks without it. Perhaps because I watched this the same night at Revenge, one almost expects ‘Crom’ to mark those ‘betters’* of his off with a red cross.
The imaginary Wolsely and the flashback to the childhood explanation for the gesture that stopped Henry ranting worked better. I didn’t quite catch what Cromwell’s father had spared him from by buying someone off. Inexcusable, when I was feeling smug that Cromwell had apparently been slow to pick up on the gossip about Anne’s night visitor.
Gregory looked so young. Of course, if he died, all the pressure on Thomas to marry again would make more sense – but the other young men in Thomas’s train seem more like sons. I don't even remember how all Henry's wives are disposed of, but I do know that it was that little girl with ginger curls he was holding who would do quite well by the country, as I remembered during his 'I need a son for legacy' speech. The Henry-Cromwell relationship was nicely complicated throughout, although, if one didn't imagine that like Anne's fool, it was historical, I'd roll my eyes at Cromwell also being the only man in court to know Tudor CPR.
Lots of moments when I wondered how expensive these costumes were, especially the furs (was that a leopard print waistcoat type thing?) and Katherine and Mary’s outfits in particular. How much work had gone into them?
*Amusing to see Downton’s Doctor playing one of the aristos. The Archbishop is growing on me with his deadpan ‘Thank you, Lord Swankypants.’