{"id":6905,"date":"2018-07-18T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=6905"},"modified":"2018-07-04T09:03:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T16:03:17","slug":"mark-watches-galavant-s02e07-love-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2018\/07\/mark-watches-galavant-s02e07-love-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Galavant’: S02E07 – Love and Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the seventh episode of the second season of Galavant<\/i>, this show manages to get weirder<\/i>. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Galavant<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see that ending coming at all<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Isabella<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh my god, I kind of love<\/i> the idea that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now in charge of the entire army??? I mean, the means by which it happened are silly as hell. Yes, traditions are<\/i> traditions, but you can literally change them at any given moment. However, I must remind myself that this is the country that has a changing of the guard ceremony that is so elaborate and involved that Isabella nearly walked out of her own palace without detection. So, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also<\/i> not surprising that Hortensia is utterly unprepared for war. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re best at pomp and circumstance, not defense.<\/p>\n

But you know who is<\/i> good at this sort of stuff? Isabella! I was reminded of her role in training Galavant to be a hero again last season. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got the skills, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highly motivated, and if she could train Galavant from a drunken stupor to where he is now, then surely she could lead an army! (Well, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153now\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mean, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153dead.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s literally dead while Isabella is dealing with this.) My concern, though, is how this is going to work with Galavant coming to her aid with his own army. (More on that army in a second.) She still thinks he abandoned her, so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like she needs to be rescued, you know? THIS IS GONNA BE CHAOS.<\/p>\n

I Love You<\/b><\/p>\n

I still feel weird about the very idea of Gareth and Madalena being in love because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not good people? But even \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not good people\u00e2\u20ac\u009d fall in love, even if it is as viscerally awkward as these two are. But look, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deny that I find this subplot DEEPLY RELATABLE. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the kind of person who dates (not every does!), who pursues romantic relationships and knows that inevitably, if you really feel<\/i> something strong for someone, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to say those three words\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 UGH, I FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE JUST THINKING ABOUT IT. I am not quick to love, but love comes quick to me when it does<\/i> arrive, and one of the biggest gambles in the universe is determining when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re supposed to say anything about it. In my first relationship, I made the TERRIBLE mistake of confusing infatuation and desire with love, and I said it like two months in. Granted, he said it back, but it was clear in hindsight that he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually love me at all<\/i>. I understand that now, that I was so inexperienced in my mid-20s because I had been in the closet for so long. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153normal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d upbringing or experimentation my peers did because I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go on a date or ask someone out until I was 19 years. So, I did all my growing up much, much later.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the years, I am reluctant to say that I love someone, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve certainly been on both the giving and receiving end of this kind of awkwardness. Oh god, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m reminded of being 20 and having a guy I really, really liked tell me he loved me, but I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t there yet. I needed time. And instead of just being honest about that and letting the relationship bloom, I just pulled away from the guy. Granted, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t as bad as what we saw from Madalena here, and when I was<\/i> honest with him, it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t masked within a conversation with a bunch of soldiers. SO I GUESS I DID BETTER. But particularly<\/i> when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never fallen in love before, as is the case with Madalena, the first time it happens is REALLY FUCKING AWFUL. I mean, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great! Feeling close enough to a person that love<\/i> happens is a great thing! But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also REALLY PAINFUL. And confusing. And disorienting. And ah, why are bodies designed in such bizarre ways? HELP ME.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dead is Dead<\/b><\/p>\n

Well, gotta admit that I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect Galavant<\/i> to kill off their TITULAR CHARACTER in an episode, though this is exactly<\/i> how they should have: with a character singing a song for so long that Galavant dies during it. Actually, not just singing while Galavant dies; singing about how Galavant will<\/i> die because time is of the essence. Which Neo, the healer, didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually heed? THIS IS SO FUNNY TO ME, Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ALL.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Two things result from Galavant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death, both unexpected, both very<\/i> interesting. First: Roberta and Richard finally<\/i> talk to one another. Like, REALLY talk to one another. She gets to admit to Richard that she likes him more than a friend, and thus, the parallel to Madalena unfolds. Like her, Richard has never fallen for another person before. He deals with this reality in a much healthier way than Madalena does, for the record. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually really sweet how much chemistry Richard and Roberta have???\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

AND THEN GALAVANT HAS TO GO AND INTERRUPT IT. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really<\/i> expect that Galavant would stay dead, though I gotta say that Death\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musical number is so odd and ethereal that it was all worth it just for that. ALSO, GALAVANT DEFEATED DEATH (or at least delayed death) BY KICKING DEATH IN THE GROIN. (Why does<\/i> Death have a vulnerable groin? Did not think that I would wake up this morning and type that sentence, but here we are, friends.)<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s admirable that Galavant refused to die because he needed to help Isabella. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s come a long way since then. That being said, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m more interested in the fact that Neo had A BUNCH OF ZOMBIES JUST CHILLIN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 AROUND HIS HOME AND JUST GAVE THEM TO GALAVANT. How the fuck is that<\/i> supposed to work? Can you even control them? What are the ethical implications of using a zombie army? I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.<\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Love and Death\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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