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Thirty Days of Borgias: Day Eight
Jul. 18th, 2012 01:41 pmDay 08 ~ Favourite moment so far.
Great Maker, as Londo Mollari would say, just one? You can't. Each of the characters has had their moments of awesome and their moments of cringe, there have been fantastic moments of of tense drama, of comedy, of tragedy, of triumph, how to single one out? I mean, for family dynamics you could, for example, pick Cesare escorting his mother to the celebration after Lucrezia's first wedding, because that's simultanously Cesare doing something for his mother and sister and scoring a point against Dad, while also showcasing Giulia as the sensible woman she is when she's putting her hand on Rodrigo's arm and nudges him to go along with it. But do I really like that moment better for family drama than the Lucrezia and Cesare over Juan's dead body pointing out the truth about Juan to their father scene, or the Rodrigo shows up covered in dust after burying Juan at Lucrezia's second engagement party scene, which in many ways is the exact reverse from 1.04 because while there's again a marital alliance going on where Lucrezia's intended is the least important person of the occasion, now Vannoza has just argued with Cesare, and Cesare's defiant power-in-the-family-taking-position new self assurance falls completely apart the moment he sees his father in this state, while Rodrigo, as opposed to Cesare in the first scene, isn't there to make a point (or do favours) but to talk to Cesare about the monumental elephant in the room and reach out to him, and it's all so tense and so tragic because Rodrigo is interrupted mid-conversation, and argh, how to choose?
So I guess for sentimental reasons I'll settle for the one scene where the entire family is present and at harmony with each other, the very last scene of the s1 finale when everyone, and I mean everyone, even Joffre-the-forgotten-in-s2 and his wife Sancia, are gathered around Lucrezia and her newborn baby and Rodrigo speaks his blessing. It was poignant at the time already, and now that we know it was really the last occasion even more so.
( The rest of the days )
Great Maker, as Londo Mollari would say, just one? You can't. Each of the characters has had their moments of awesome and their moments of cringe, there have been fantastic moments of of tense drama, of comedy, of tragedy, of triumph, how to single one out? I mean, for family dynamics you could, for example, pick Cesare escorting his mother to the celebration after Lucrezia's first wedding, because that's simultanously Cesare doing something for his mother and sister and scoring a point against Dad, while also showcasing Giulia as the sensible woman she is when she's putting her hand on Rodrigo's arm and nudges him to go along with it. But do I really like that moment better for family drama than the Lucrezia and Cesare over Juan's dead body pointing out the truth about Juan to their father scene, or the Rodrigo shows up covered in dust after burying Juan at Lucrezia's second engagement party scene, which in many ways is the exact reverse from 1.04 because while there's again a marital alliance going on where Lucrezia's intended is the least important person of the occasion, now Vannoza has just argued with Cesare, and Cesare's defiant power-in-the-family-taking-position new self assurance falls completely apart the moment he sees his father in this state, while Rodrigo, as opposed to Cesare in the first scene, isn't there to make a point (or do favours) but to talk to Cesare about the monumental elephant in the room and reach out to him, and it's all so tense and so tragic because Rodrigo is interrupted mid-conversation, and argh, how to choose?
So I guess for sentimental reasons I'll settle for the one scene where the entire family is present and at harmony with each other, the very last scene of the s1 finale when everyone, and I mean everyone, even Joffre-the-forgotten-in-s2 and his wife Sancia, are gathered around Lucrezia and her newborn baby and Rodrigo speaks his blessing. It was poignant at the time already, and now that we know it was really the last occasion even more so.
( The rest of the days )
