The show is doing one heck of an effort to appeal to the average American isn't it? The pilot showed us bad people getting what was coming to them, a great premise. Week 2 was the take down of a Wall Street executive, the new arch-villain replacing lawyers in our daily lives. Week 3 (this week) a corrupt politician that isn't buying what they are selling, pro-life and thinking he was paying for an abortion. (Paging Senator Edwards) Next week will undoubtedly be an insurance company or something along those lines.... I'm kidding, but my point is that Revenge, really wants you to like it, it's trying to gain your trust. Take some of the most hated archetypes in society today and throw them on the barbecue, and we'll eat it all up. Again is it too much to think that the show is working us the viewers on some meta-level? Earning our trust so that we'll believe everything we see, only to pull the rug out from under us at some later point? My bet is yes.
Another sign that it might all fall apart on Emily, the dream that she had at the beginning of the episode. I think that Emily knows that in the end she is going to be found out and everything will come crashing back down on her, it's kind of a bad word but I see her as almost being a martyr for her fathers life. Seriously at some point someone is going to put 2 and 2 together and figure out what is going on, Victoria thought that she knew, but was thinking way to small. Eventually it will come back and get Emily, even the quote before the pilot about digging two graves when one seeks revenge, I think she knows it's a one way ticket and she's just trying to take as many down as she can before she is caught. And wouldn't that be a twist if she martyrs her own life only to find out that her Dad really was financing terrorist martyrs himself... Again dad wasn't squeaky clean, he was having an affair with Victoria. Adultery and terrorism are obviously a little different on Santa's naughty list, but you get the point.
But you know who is on the good list? Decklan (however you spell it). Would it have been too obvious if Decklan had just forwarded Adam's sex tape on to Charlotte? (seriously that just sounded weird to write) I think we thought that was coming, but it didn't instead he took the high road. He was going to get her to like him through honest means, rather than resorting to the quick and effective method of destroying Adam's relationship with her. I think the show is trying to show us that not everyone here is evil, not everything is based on hatred and quick and easy revenge, there is the opportunity for morality and decency to exist. Heck even Victoria tried to save Emily's father before he went to jail, granted it was too little too late, but the moment was there to show us that she can be a decent person, maybe she is, or was...
The problem with doing naughty things is that over time those actions that you perform are who you become, or at least seem to be. Emily has had some big plans for Daniel since the pilot, which I'm sure were to get him to fall in love with her and then turn on him like a black widow, naw more like a praying mantis (have you seen what they do to their mates?) But something changed in the little Italian steakhouse, and I'm not talking about Amanda Knox's verdict. The plan was for Daniel's ex's brother to show up and well, cause some damage, not sure if the goal was the car or something more, probably just the car, murder in a public restaurant would be a little much. In the end Daniel confesses his guilt to Emily and goes about making amends (as best he can I guess) for what he did. My take is that this threw Emily for a loop, how can she punish someone for a crime they didn't commit (her father) if they might actually be a decent person? Can she still use him in her plan? By the end of the season they are engaged, but in what context? Ah such mysteries...
We were also presented with a doozy of a mystery last night as well involving the senator and some online content, the mystery of course being, what is an IP address? For anyone that doesn't understand what an IP address is, it is the ID of your computer when it accesses the internet. All computers have an IP address and they are unique to your computer. If someone has access to your IP address (it's generally a 12 digit number so don't worry about it) they can essentially access your computer in any way they want. So what Nolan was doing with Adam's computer, that is very real.
The real mystery of course is who was sending the messages to the senator? Since Emily told Nolan that she bought the building and that's where the video came from it seems likely that she was the one behind the senator's fall from grace. But in the final scene with Victoria we see her wearing the earrings that Emily's dad gave to her as a present, meaning that she was thinking of him when the good senator was hung out to dry. My thought, both of them were working to destroy the senator. That Victoria was involved seems a little less probable, but not unlikely, we'll have to see. The obvious choice is that it was Emily all along, but how would she have access to the computer in Victoria's house over the last two months? Additionally she needed Nolan to hack into the senator's computer, they weren't in contact at that point, so it makes Emily unlikely.
Two months earlier I think that Emily was working on a different plan, and that is securing her old house, through destroying the marriage of the Davis's, forcing them to divorce and sell their house. Victoria could tell that Emily was up to something by being a member in the art society, problem is, she was thinking way way too small. Emily wasn't involved in the affair, Emily was the one that started the affair and then walked away. Emily is thinking on a bigger scale then anyone would expect (for now) that's why Nolan asks her, "You just destroyed the man's career." And her response is, "I want to destroy his life." She's working on a much bigger scale.
And seriously why is she such a bitch to Nolan? I like Nolan. He's on her side and helping her, so what is her deal? Maybe she knows that shes dammed in the end and its a way to protect him?
Oh and when are we going to get to see Emily show a little emotion?
One final question, is the dog on the show Vincent from Lost?
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