So on to this weeks action packed roller coaster that is Revenge. Oh and if this show doesn't get an Emmy for best writing, it's a crime. Oh and one more thing before I get to it, you know what makes a good show to me, addressing the 4th wall (the audience). Remember back to Lost when some crazy stuff would happen and then you'd be left wondering, "Well how is that supposed to work, or well what about this?". Then the next episode they would address that specific plot question and you'd think, "Oh ok I get it now." (Granted Lost left a lot hanging, but hopefully you get my point.) Last night Revenge did the same exact thing. Jen and I keep asking ourselves, "Why is Emily so mean to Nolan?" Thankfully he asked her last night and she said, "It wasn't part of the plan." There was something else but I forget it now, point is it was there, that makes me happy.
On to the plot of last evening. It seems like the hinges are beginning to come off for Emily. The earlier plots at revenge were pretty simple, do A in order for B to take place, wash hands and move on. But things didn't go according to plan last night. Lydia popped up at her house demanding it back and threatening poor sweet Emily. Emily was then put on the defense, calling an audible looking at how to take care of Lydia once and for all. I wonder if the original plan was to go ahead and take care of Victoria in this episode by throwing Lydia at her at the event. It makes sense since she convinced Ashley to center the event around Victoria, which obviously Victoria was able to side step. At the same time Emily set up Lydia by giving her, her little revenge folder. Emily probably didn't know which one was going to go down in flames that night, but figuring that putting the two against each other, knowing that she would have Frank go look at her place was a safe bet that one would take the other one out.
In the preview for next week there is a clip where Emily says that Lydia dying was not a part of her plan, but I'm not so sure. Maybe it wasn't originally for anyone to actually die, but with the pressure that Lydia was putting on Emily it seems like she may have had to put her in a position to be killed. Getting Frank to do it, all the better, in what had to be the ugliest murder in TV history, leave enough evidence behind there Frank? Speaking of evidence, hey Nolan, good job leaving your fingerprints all over the apartment, good thing you have a video of what happened, probably going to keep you out of jail. Question, is Frank at the reception party???
And seriously, she got 10 million dollars, install a security system for God sake!!!
One more indication that Emily's plan might be getting away from her, she had to actually show some personality in her scramble to get all the pieces where she needed them. Oh sure a chess board is easy when all the pieces are lined up at the beginning of the game, but things get a little tricky when all the pieces are in play. Having Nolan go to Lydia's apartment so that she could wrap herself around Daniel was most assuredly not part of the plan.
And what is up with Daniel? I'm getting the impression that he is a pretty decent guy, sure he's had some issues, but he seems to be looking to set his life right. Wouldn't that be the ultimate wrench in Emily's plan if the boy that she set out to destroy was a decent human being? Sure he is a Greyson but he didn't have anything to do with her father or her. I'm sure the plan was to destroy him as part of her destroy Victoria plan, but could she do that if he were a good guy? I guess that has to do with the end sequence and how guilt was a beacon for her to carry her forward, as she's lying in bed with Daniel. Meaning she that why she's going to feel guilty for it, she still plans on ruining his life.
So let me ask this question based on my speculation, is Emily evil? We as the audience have been put in the position to embrace her, but are we being deceived, is she just as reprehensible as the people's lives that she is looking to destroy? If Daniel is a good guy and she ruins his life (or even gets him killed, as maybe seen in the pilot) how can we not say that she's just as bad as the people that she is punishing. It's one thing to give people what they deserve, it's another to harm the innocent. Sounds like something else in this show... Terrorism.
Terrorism is based around the idea of harming the innocent in order to make a point, scare the innocent out of their safe lives. When the plane in the show crashed, 280+ people were killed, all of them innocent victims. Victoria felt so bad about what happened (I don't think they were behind the plot, I'm sure they got wrapped up into funding it somehow, there is no profit in terrorism) that she set up a charity foundation for the victims through her guilt. Interesting that through the episode the theme of guilt created different results in each character. Victoria felt bad for the victims so she tried to help. Emily said herself, that she uses her guilt as a sign that she's doing a good job. Nolan told Emily's father that he would look out for her, which allows him to get caught at a murder scene. Conrad's guilt (if there is any) buys his wife a fancy car, which in turn gets his daughter in trouble with the police. Do we see a trend here???
And one more little piece of symbolism for you. Emily's last name is pretty easy to see the connection, thorn, how about Victoria, Greyson. Sure that seems like a pretty fitting rich people name, but symbolically it's grey!!! Not black or white, but grey!!! Is she actually a good human being in there, is she the she devil the show makes her out to be? Quite literally she is grey. So is her grey son, Daniel Greyson.
Good times.
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