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selenakDidn't have the chance to watch this until know, since I was on the road until Sunday night. Unspoilery: in a reversal of the usual rule about two parters, this one had a second part better than the first, and I loved it.
I mean, yes, sure, it played along typical tropes, i.e. both April and Charlie were saved from actually having to kill anyone, April by making defeating, not killing the Shadow King enough for the Shadowkin to acknowledge her as Queen, and Charlie by the Shadowkin destroying the lethal flowers. But the execution was still compelling, and with established tropes, it's always about the execution. Also, Miss Quill's prediction that Charlie will use the cabinet one day and Charlie's admission to Matteusz at the end he's not sure whether or not he would have makes me think a situation will arise where there won't be a Shadow Ex Machina solution. Not necessarily via Charlie using the cabinet to kill, btw; my speculation is more that he'll have to give it up, as both he and Quill are so far unable to let go of their past, and their past roles, and I bet that's the long term arc challenge to both of them.
April defeating the Shadow King in combat and being talked out of executing him (which would have meant her own death) by her father and his experience with planned murder/suicide was one of these moments that could either be great or terrible, and depended on the follow up. As the follow up wasn't an easy reconciliation with and forgiveness of her father but him accepting that he was to stay away from April and her mother, and it was up to them whether or not they'd ever contact him again, it was a great scene.
Ram explaining about Sikh religion: was obvious exposition, but still well delivered. Also necessary, given the appalling number of people I've met who aren't even aware it exists and who automatically associate turbans with Islam.
Matteusz continues to endear himself more and more with every episode. Here by refusing to be a plot device and getting the drop on the headmistress as soon as she'd turned her back on him and the gun on Charlie, then by throwing the gun away. I don't like guns, either, Matteusz.
I mean, yes, sure, it played along typical tropes, i.e. both April and Charlie were saved from actually having to kill anyone, April by making defeating, not killing the Shadow King enough for the Shadowkin to acknowledge her as Queen, and Charlie by the Shadowkin destroying the lethal flowers. But the execution was still compelling, and with established tropes, it's always about the execution. Also, Miss Quill's prediction that Charlie will use the cabinet one day and Charlie's admission to Matteusz at the end he's not sure whether or not he would have makes me think a situation will arise where there won't be a Shadow Ex Machina solution. Not necessarily via Charlie using the cabinet to kill, btw; my speculation is more that he'll have to give it up, as both he and Quill are so far unable to let go of their past, and their past roles, and I bet that's the long term arc challenge to both of them.
April defeating the Shadow King in combat and being talked out of executing him (which would have meant her own death) by her father and his experience with planned murder/suicide was one of these moments that could either be great or terrible, and depended on the follow up. As the follow up wasn't an easy reconciliation with and forgiveness of her father but him accepting that he was to stay away from April and her mother, and it was up to them whether or not they'd ever contact him again, it was a great scene.
Ram explaining about Sikh religion: was obvious exposition, but still well delivered. Also necessary, given the appalling number of people I've met who aren't even aware it exists and who automatically associate turbans with Islam.
Matteusz continues to endear himself more and more with every episode. Here by refusing to be a plot device and getting the drop on the headmistress as soon as she'd turned her back on him and the gun on Charlie, then by throwing the gun away. I don't like guns, either, Matteusz.
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