Episode 57 (S2-04) - Accidentally a Scorching Ray

[Oneiros]

Out of the frying pan and into another frying pan? La Gourmande seems to really want to get their teeth into Wilde...

Quite a bit to unpack here as well - "Good Cop, Bad Bertie" doesn't seem to be a game I would readily want to play. Plus Hamid seems to be wound very tight, if even he is snapping at Bertie. Zolf's question on if he'd accidentalled into faith was beautiful. And poor Sasha having to try and be the voice of reason and calm here.

And on a personal note - I'd like to applaud James for his rather deft characterisation in portraying someone who is both queer and morally repugnant without conflating the two, that we can get a baser queer character that is recognisably more human that a lot of media representations.

So, what do you think La Gourmande wants with Wilde, especially as their well-dressed associate appears to describe Wilde's character to a tee? And will Hamid come to recognise that the fire really was inside him all along?

[kea]

Hooray! All caught up



I loved this episode, good plot progression. Bertie was on truly hideous form - I agree with Oneiros about that it being a particularly interesting characterisation of a Queer character. I rather laughed at James's comment about it taking everyone about 60 episodes to realise how awful he was - who are these Bertie fans? Most people seem to agree he's just the worst. 

Then again, I laughed when Zolf stabbed the gnomes. The sound effect didn't help. 

I'm guessing the people who've come to grab Wilde are from "our" side though - I think that La Gourmonde would have just brute forced his (their?) way in, since they know what they're up against. Suit Bro and co. seem not to? 

[Brave Sir Robin]

There was some real moral wrangling here about how to treat the prisoners, I'm not sure all of it made it into the final edit. Obviously we come at it with modern morality, and our characters are *way* outside the geneva convention, but we're in a world where a completely different set of standards apply.

We recorded this quite a while ago, and Bertie's fans were only just starting to realise how awful he was. Obviously we've all come to accept it now - I'm not sure there's anyone left who is on his side.

One of the mechanical indicators of tiredness for a spellcaster is, imo, the number of spell slots left. When Hamid is running low on spells I make a conscious effort to play him as more tired, which does lead to some small differences in behaviour. I'm glad it's coming through.