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With the forces of darkness closing in, it's party time! Dorian Gray drops in to the fortress of stiff upper lips with invites to Angelique's coming out ball just as the team are noticing something amiss with the luvved up Sir Malcolm's reaction to his estranged wife's suicide ("cut her throat? I'll have to change that carpet.") After a visit to the waxworks and a blackmail visit from the maimed and excessively optimistic Pinkerton (seriously; it's quite adorable that he thinks Ethan is the badass) Ethan cries off the ball due to lycanthropy, but Victor attends with Lily, Sir Malcolm takes Mrs Poole and Vanessa and Hecate Poole go separately and stag. Dorian pisses Victor and Angelique off by homing in on Lily (told you that wasn't going to stay happy,) while Hecate torments Vanessa with magic. Meanwhile, Ethan has Sembene chain him up in the basement and finally has someone who knows exactly what happens to him.
Although he crosses paths with the rest of the cast, Dorian Gray remains a largely pointless source of fan service, and otherwise mainly throws a spanner into the works of another incidental plot. On that topic, neither Vanessa nor Dorian appears to recognise Lily; I guess it's hard to see past the consumption and the accent, and they did at least keep Ethan out of the picture so far. Anyway, that leaves about half of the episode to formal plot, which pretty much comes down to 'Ethan is the hound of God, Mrs Poole is after Sir Malcolm and Hecate seems determined to fuck with Vanessa's head just to prove a point or something.' It's possible that Hecate is just feeling pissy because Mr Lyle pronounces her name 'Heckaty-poo.'
So, yeah; mostly filler this week.
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