The Rook Episode 5 Thoughts
Mar. 31st, 2020 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iaria+ I find it very strange that Myfanwy didn't even ask Nazim if he could reverse her amnesia or if she would indeed remember at some point.
+ "You make me dizzy." Love it. The bridge conversation ended up being pretty ouch because Gestalt is so into Myfanwy and she has no idea of how she feels or if she can trust them and they, of course, jump to the worst conclusion. I felt bad for both of them. Because she doesn't actually know if she was using them regardless of how she feels now and Teddy was clearly very hurt when he walked away. The reveal that Gestalt has liked Myfanwy for a long time but that she's never returned it puts an interesting spin on the fact that they slept together the night Myfanwy was erased/almost kidnapped. Why, if she had always kept a distance, did she choose to sleep with them then?
+ Was the get out option with Lorik set up by old Myfanwy to try and escape her fate, or was that part of her contingency to get new Myfanwy a new life?
+ I assumed that Linda had some sort of power but honestly hadn't really thought about it much. The scale of it was pretty impressive. That was a great scene.
+ Now I find myself wondering if Ingrid has a power? She's a Pawn and it would make sense that you'd have to be an EVA to be a part of the Court. It's probably something small since she is a pawn. This also brings me to wonder where the heck the Knights and Bishops are.
+ The fact that Linda went for Nazim at the end changes things. That was her actively working against Checquy in a very obvious way. She used her power against her own agents, in public, to steal the target from them, wth? Why does she so desperately want Nazim? I assumed that she was simply corrupt/using EVAs for her good but this all feels very personal. We keep being told that EVA's are being used (including by Checquy), Conrad is protective of his kind within the structure of Checquy (which he seems to believe in) which makes me wonder where Linda stands on all this.
Bronwyn is an interesting addition to the mystery. Linda trading Myfanwy to slavers is terrible and evil but her trading her to her sister (and freedom?) is an entirely different situation. With the first Linda was clearly the bad guy and Myfanwy's enemy regardless of their relationship before that but the latter puts a far better spin on things leaving it possible that Linda does actually have Myfanwy's best interests at heart.
+ I liked that Monica clocked both the Gestalt/Myfanwy complicatedness and that Myfanwy had been wiped. But it does make me wonder about how Gestalt (and Ingrid and Conrad) haven't picked up what's happening. Being on the outside makes it easier? I suppose with Gestalt we can say they assumed at first her weirdness was about the sex and were distracted themselves by it, and then with the bodies/mystery (especially once they start suspecting her) they were more suspicious that she's a double agent or something instead?
+ "You make me dizzy." Love it. The bridge conversation ended up being pretty ouch because Gestalt is so into Myfanwy and she has no idea of how she feels or if she can trust them and they, of course, jump to the worst conclusion. I felt bad for both of them. Because she doesn't actually know if she was using them regardless of how she feels now and Teddy was clearly very hurt when he walked away. The reveal that Gestalt has liked Myfanwy for a long time but that she's never returned it puts an interesting spin on the fact that they slept together the night Myfanwy was erased/almost kidnapped. Why, if she had always kept a distance, did she choose to sleep with them then?
+ Was the get out option with Lorik set up by old Myfanwy to try and escape her fate, or was that part of her contingency to get new Myfanwy a new life?
+ I assumed that Linda had some sort of power but honestly hadn't really thought about it much. The scale of it was pretty impressive. That was a great scene.
+ Now I find myself wondering if Ingrid has a power? She's a Pawn and it would make sense that you'd have to be an EVA to be a part of the Court. It's probably something small since she is a pawn. This also brings me to wonder where the heck the Knights and Bishops are.
+ The fact that Linda went for Nazim at the end changes things. That was her actively working against Checquy in a very obvious way. She used her power against her own agents, in public, to steal the target from them, wth? Why does she so desperately want Nazim? I assumed that she was simply corrupt/using EVAs for her good but this all feels very personal. We keep being told that EVA's are being used (including by Checquy), Conrad is protective of his kind within the structure of Checquy (which he seems to believe in) which makes me wonder where Linda stands on all this.
Bronwyn is an interesting addition to the mystery. Linda trading Myfanwy to slavers is terrible and evil but her trading her to her sister (and freedom?) is an entirely different situation. With the first Linda was clearly the bad guy and Myfanwy's enemy regardless of their relationship before that but the latter puts a far better spin on things leaving it possible that Linda does actually have Myfanwy's best interests at heart.
+ I liked that Monica clocked both the Gestalt/Myfanwy complicatedness and that Myfanwy had been wiped. But it does make me wonder about how Gestalt (and Ingrid and Conrad) haven't picked up what's happening. Being on the outside makes it easier? I suppose with Gestalt we can say they assumed at first her weirdness was about the sex and were distracted themselves by it, and then with the bodies/mystery (especially once they start suspecting her) they were more suspicious that she's a double agent or something instead?
