{"id":6890,"date":"2018-07-02T13:00:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=6890"},"modified":"2018-06-26T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T20:12:57","slug":"mark-watches-galavant-s01e04-comedy-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2018\/07\/mark-watches-galavant-s01e04-comedy-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Galavant’: S01E04 – Comedy Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the fourth episode of the first season of Galavant<\/i>, the team bickers to their own detriment, and King Richard tries some comedy. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Galavant<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel as if this show is building toward an inevitable disaster. In both the plot lines featured in season one, the main male character is stumbling toward a conclusion that everyone but<\/i> him can see. In the case of King Richard, the man still believes that if he finds the right combination of behavior, attitude change, and knowledge, he can win over his wife, Indeed, practically every scene of his involves him pursuing some non-sensical solution to Madalena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s complete disinterest. Nevermind that she has frequently just told<\/i> him that she is not attracted to him, that she will literally never be, and that she was just in it for access to power.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, after learning that his wife has been cheating on him with the jester, he decides to\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 ask the jester to make him funnier. Which is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 lord, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just make<\/i> a person funnier! I mean, you can<\/i> study comedy, improv, and the like, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not what this is about. Richard thinks that a few tips will make him funny, thereby unlocking his wife\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hidden attraction to him! Which is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 also not how that<\/i> works, either. Dude, she was just attracted<\/i> to him. She could have sex with someone with no strings attached, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ALL. But Richard can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see this, just like he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a laughingstock.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sort of the whole point with his character and the parallel to Galavant. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s even more ironic and tragic that both<\/i> men pine after the same woman, who has NO INTEREST IN EITHER OF THEM. She only cares about what they can offer her, not what she can offer a partner. And like Galavant, Richard has been made DEEPLY aware of this before, and yet he ignores it. After terrifying the jester, performing terribly<\/i> during his lessons, and assembling the whole castle for a performance, Richard ignores Madalena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear rejection AGAIN. She literally tells him not to go forward with his routine! And he does it anyway! And even when he makes her laugh genuinely once<\/i>, he still thinks that is all he has to do! HE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SO LAZY, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL.<\/p>\n

I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that Galavant was lazy, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so sure of himself that he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see the obvious when it is right in front of him. (Or, in the case of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Comedy Gold,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d fully confessed to him out loud just feet away.) The episode opens with Galavant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s characteristic certainty. They just have to cross the sea and then they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be in Valencia! Except\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 no, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not that easy. No matter how badly Galavant wants<\/i> it to be easy, Isabella and Sid are there to frequently remind him that he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually know what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing. Well, that, and also that he has TRASH opinions about trail mix. How the fuck do you hate cashews<\/i>? I get being allergic to them, but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so good??? Also, who gets trail mix and only eats the raisins<\/i> out of it? An EVIL BEING, okay. EVIL.<\/p>\n

Anyway, not wanting to turn this into a trail mix discourse post. (Or do<\/i> I?) For a while, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Comedy Gold\u00e2\u20ac\u009d actually veers away from the parallel between Galavant and Richard to explore the ever-present bickering and rage between Galavant, Sid, and Isabella. Look, this is probably familiar to any of y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gone on road trips or vacations with people you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve not traveled with before. It is truly one of the easiest ways to determine whether or not you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re compatible with a person. I definitely<\/i> couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be in a romantic relationship with someone who was a terrible travel partner. If it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a friend, I just travel separately. But with this trio, they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a choice. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re stuck together, and thus, when the land pirates take them and their possessions, they quickly have to stop bickering and start working together.<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a really cute little message, and I also need to acknowledge openly how fucking FUNNY the land pirates are. I know dissecting jokes often makes them unfunny, so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to delve too deeply into this. But the writers of the show manage to give the trio a glimpse of a possible future. They may become as dysfunctional and useless as the Land Pirates if they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t learn to agree and get along. Granted, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a clear exaggeration because WOW, the Land Pirates really committed to their trash pirating. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so horrible! But in a show where the future seems to be written in stone\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s certain disappointment waiting both Richard and Galavant\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthis plot allowed our heroes to sidestep an inevitability.<\/p>\n

Which is why it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so frustrating that Galavant didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just LISTEN when Isabella was telling the truth!!! Dude!!!! STOP BEING YOU FOR ONE SECOND.<\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Comedy Gold\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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