Revenge (Still the TV Show)
Mar. 3rd, 2013 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Penance was an outstanding episode because yes! Everything was made of good, solid character work and pain.
Either Conrad trying desperately to save Victoria's life. Or that scene with Mason and Emily at the end. It's just perfect because Mason accepts the why, and the rest of it shows how much Emily is trying to make up for / to the people she's hurt on her way to revenge.
Lineage probably wasn't as good
Mostly it was Nolan. Who, yeah, really does take loyalty to an extreme. A lovely, adorable extreme. Even if I can understand Marco's reaction. Except, I'm with Nolan on this. Help, the show has got me in it's evil clutches. Also Daniel, you are rapidly going down in my estimates. You are turning into your grandfather.
It even stabbed me in the heart about Victoria. That's a brilliant way of make us feel sorry for a character without ever excusing some of her other, non-mother-related, actions. Also, hats off to the casting team for the casting of her mother when she was younger.
And poor Jack's Dad. No good deed ever goes unpunished or what.
I've just realised who Aiden is
Jack is obviously partly Maximilian Morrel and partly a Mercedes who never married Fernand. And I think Daniel is a Mercedes who finds out about how Fernand got his money but can't make the sacrifice that Mercedes makes at the end of the book.
Aiden, on the other hand, is Haydee, as in, he's the love interest that never knew Edmond Dantes and only ever knew the Count. Which suggests that we might finally get a version of the Count of Monte Cristo that goes with the book ending and has the Count and Haydee go off into the sunset (I still don't like Aiden but still, I can live with it). I mean, I can see why a lot of the adaptations don't go with that because you've got the time for it to work in the book, but not in the films, because in the book, Edmond Dantes is dead. The terrible things that happened to him, and the terrible things that the Count did in his name, mean he can't ever be the man that Mercedes loved or be the man that loved her. Haydee is the only person who loves the Count, which is what he's stuck as.
Either Conrad trying desperately to save Victoria's life. Or that scene with Mason and Emily at the end. It's just perfect because Mason accepts the why, and the rest of it shows how much Emily is trying to make up for / to the people she's hurt on her way to revenge.
Lineage probably wasn't as good
Mostly it was Nolan. Who, yeah, really does take loyalty to an extreme. A lovely, adorable extreme. Even if I can understand Marco's reaction. Except, I'm with Nolan on this. Help, the show has got me in it's evil clutches. Also Daniel, you are rapidly going down in my estimates. You are turning into your grandfather.
It even stabbed me in the heart about Victoria. That's a brilliant way of make us feel sorry for a character without ever excusing some of her other, non-mother-related, actions. Also, hats off to the casting team for the casting of her mother when she was younger.
And poor Jack's Dad. No good deed ever goes unpunished or what.
I've just realised who Aiden is
Jack is obviously partly Maximilian Morrel and partly a Mercedes who never married Fernand. And I think Daniel is a Mercedes who finds out about how Fernand got his money but can't make the sacrifice that Mercedes makes at the end of the book.
Aiden, on the other hand, is Haydee, as in, he's the love interest that never knew Edmond Dantes and only ever knew the Count. Which suggests that we might finally get a version of the Count of Monte Cristo that goes with the book ending and has the Count and Haydee go off into the sunset (I still don't like Aiden but still, I can live with it). I mean, I can see why a lot of the adaptations don't go with that because you've got the time for it to work in the book, but not in the films, because in the book, Edmond Dantes is dead. The terrible things that happened to him, and the terrible things that the Count did in his name, mean he can't ever be the man that Mercedes loved or be the man that loved her. Haydee is the only person who loves the Count, which is what he's stuck as.
