It was fun seeing Ysabeau tell him to do one in Lindsay Duncan’s beautiful, otherworldly voice, in a room painted like a chess board as a reminder of the games he’s been playing. Gerbert suffered too, but only in the ego department. What did he think would happen when he lured history’s most powerful witch to his evil lair? Tea and biscuits? Benjamin suffered too, momentarily, but his death felt more like suicide-by-cop than anything else.

Satu though, had lost all rights to sympathy when she came at Diana with enchanted Matthews and fiery fists. Satu also suffered by being delivered into the hands of the goddess without power or craft, a feat Diana achieved without breaking a sweat. Only Sarah was left staring into the fire with a whisky, her alone having paid a serious cost in this battle. Matthew told Jack he was proud of him and loved him. Gallowglass and Matthew had a little clear-the-air-about-my-being-besotted-with-your-wife cuddle. Fernando and Hugh’s love was finally acknowledged at Sept-Tours. Nathaniel, Sophie and Margaret reunited with Agatha. Miriam and Chris exchanged a fruity look. Happy endings were generously doled out in the new spirit of species diversity. Maybe now he’ll even be able to enter a room like a normal person, without all the billowing winds and frenzied stare-drama. His and Matthew’s heart-to-heart about Philippe revealed endearing vulnerability. Gerbert may be too far gone to benefit, but Baldwin’s redemption is complete. It’s a reminder that gatekeepers of oppressive systems are just as freed by their dismantling as anybody else. Baldwin cooing over one of the babies in the closing tableau was surprisingly moving after seasons of his throbbing neck-vein intransigence. That mild disappointment dealt with, there were some cool moments. It wasn’t long though, before the vamp was up and about and doing masonry, bio-genetics and the tango. Brushes palms together – pub?īack at Sept-Tours, some peril was attempted with everybody exchanging grave looks and reading poems at Matthew’s bedside (Hamish finally got some lines!). It had atmosphere, thanks to that great Chelm location and the music, but in story terms, Diana may as well have been collecting Matthew from a fishing weekend for all the conflict we saw. Kudos), cast a couple of spells and then they all were home inside the 20-minute mark. Diana went on a spooky Halloween tour of enchanted Matthews (very disgusting, that open-heart effect. The fighters assembled! The helicopter landed! Miriam kicked down the door! And then… none of them had a single thing to do. There was no struggle, no sacrifice, no contest.Īfter Knox was dispatched so quickly last episode, it felt as though the pitch was being cleared for some real fireworks. After absorbing the book, Diana needed only wave her fingers to deal with both Satu and Benjamin. Thematically that’s all very admirable, but however pleased we might be for the characters, it doesn’t help the fact that this finale lacked peril – always a consequence of super-charging your hero with seemingly limitless juice.

Now it’s time for vampires, daemons and witches to come out of the closet, renounce their separatist ways and start attending each other’s book groups. Creature-kind have become weak by mating only with their own. Magical DNA is a blend, not a single-varietal deal, and requires a touch of daemon in the mix. Action point 3: mingle, singles! The Book of Life’s lessons were finally interpreted to mean that creatures are languishing in the modern day because thanks to the Covenant, there hasn’t been enough inter-species breeding. Action point 2: redistribute power equitably between the species. There was probably even some poor daemon taking the minutes and then sending out an email detailing the relevant action points.Īction point 1: revoke the Covenant. There was protocol, a chairperson, a vote and that awkward bit where everybody’s waiting outside with their coffees/ancient keys waiting for the Wi-Fi code. Admittedly, a meeting in which a massive glowing tree spurted out of a book and so very much not your average huddle, but still, a meeting all the same – one we’ve seen in almost every episode of A Discovery of Witchessince the start. It’s a bold choice to set up a season with multiple magical villains and then not conclude it with an earth-shaking, lightning-bolts-from-fingers battle, but with a… meeting. Warning: This A Discovery of Witches review contains spoilers.

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