The Bastard Executioner: let's not and actually not say we did either.

[healingmirth]

I was cautiously optimistic going into this. And then, ten minutes in I started drafting this entry. I can't remember the last time watching something made me this angry, and continuing to watch it made me continually angrier.



Dream sequence ft. some sort of flying parasite. Well. I am already not excited to watch more of this.

Oh, the hero has a lovely pregnant wife. Bet she's dead by the end of the episode.

Fairly rapey sex in some nobleman's castle. Oh, it's the unfaceted bad guy from this season's The Last Ship. Bet you he's an unfaceted bad guy here too.

Nobleman's wife staring longingly out the window plaintively. So, that'd be the replacement love interest for once Main Dude's wife is dead, then.

Hey, it's the chef from Galavant. (Also, hey its that other scientist guy from The Last Ship.)

Main dude used to be a nobleman. Because of course he did.

Oh, they killed all the women and children.

Hey, the beloved pregnant wife gets to live in secret. That'd be a nice twist.

Nope. No, she does not.

Well, the murder-y abusive torturer seems to have facets.

Oh, he's dead too.

Really, they're doing that thing where they stand in a circle and let the two leaders fight?

For funsies, a bonus reminder that I hate the Joker casting in Gotham during the commercial break.

And the remaining sadistic villain is presented as gay. Great. Goes well with him joking that King Edward was, earlier.

Well, at least the Baron is dead now.

Yes. Vengeance. We get it.

While I do appreciate that Main Dude is now mistakenly focused on the guy who tried to let his wife escape, Snow-White style, literally everyone had to have picked up on the fact that the ~mysterious~ hooded guy was the one who really killed her, without that stupid sword "twist"


So. If the pilot had ditched.... basically the first 75% of the plot and characterization, I might possibly have enjoyed it. The question is now whether I can forgive or ignore it to watch any more. Dammit. I really did like the last few scenes.

Comments

[silverr]

but did you like those last few scenes because they were, good, or because they weren't as unremittingly bad as previous?

Shouldn't pleasure be a bit more than the absence of pain? :p

[healingmirth]

It's hard to say! They did start to get to the tropes I like in this sort of show, and many of the surviving characters are played by what appear to be competent actors, so that's good. Like, I do enjoy a protagonist having secrets, and having to take actions they appear to be conflicted about, but we definitely could have got there without the saintly dead wife. Argh.

Peak TV: still full of fridged women.

[silverr]

and Evil Gays?

(This is doing nothing for my grumbly mood over Smithers.)

[healingmirth]

Eh, yeah. Either evil gays or evil bisexuals, or idk. Like best case scenario might be evil opportune ppwer-dynamic rapists not picky about their victims. As yet unclear, and none of it good.