Post by stluee on Nov 11, 2014 14:53:45 GMT -6
Talk about a letdown. During "Ambush," when Emily and David finally met face to face, it was in the most unceremonious, extraordinarily dull manner. In fact, it was almost decidedly un-Revenge-y in its monotony.
After all this time and anticipation, Emily opened the door to Grayson Manor to see her long-lost father standing there like an awkward neighbor delivering a package that was accidentally sent to his house. So why no pomp? Why no circumstance?
It was a disappointing moment mainly because David is, altogether, rather disappointing. The man still couldn't recognize his own daughter--there was not even a flicker of acknowledgment in his eyes. And he's also a rather confusing character—he's supposed to be a man astute enough to have a larger agenda, an intricate web of lies and deceit, yet he comes across as a bumbling, bewildered buffoon.
Perhaps Emily asked it best...
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"Who the hell is he, Nolan?"
I mean honestly, how could you not know? If you could recognize Charlotte (who was just an infant the last time you saw her) by her eyes alone, how could you not recognize the girl you used to dance to "Everybody's Talkin" with on the beach when she was 5?
Leave it to Nolan to always give someone the benefit of the doubt, telling Emily, "This David Clarke is not the man we once knew." He argues that something truly atrocious must have happened to him between then and now to make it so that he can't recognize his own flesh and blood.
And that atrocious something also turned him into a murderer, as Emily's starting to learn. When she snuck into the old Clarke beach house while Victoria and David were mid-slumber, she found a knife hidden in her old hiding place, the Infinity Box. She asks Nolan to find out if it is at all connected to Conrad Grayson's murder.Daniel wants out... or does he?
Fresh off the revelation that his ex-fiance is actually his little sister's sister and was only using him to bring down his entire family, Daniel (naturally) just wants out of the whole twisted thing. He pays a rare visit to his mother to tell her that exact thing: That, in the war between her and Emily, "I'm not going to get caught in the crossfire and I'm walking away."
He tells Emily the same thing, with an equality militaristic metaphor, when he runs into her in the elevator at the bank. He says that after all the betrayal and all the lies, at the end of the day, all he wants to be done with it all.
I don't know about you guys, but it seems to me that there's a small part of Daniel that still wants Emily, in spite of all the torture she's put him through. Sign #1: When he gets a call from Margaux while he and Emily are stuck in the elevator, he tells her he's with a client. Sign #2: Yes, he comes off like a pompous ass, but there's a certain pining when he asks, "Was any of it real?... What about when I proposed to you?" Sign #3: Did you see how he was checking her out when she climbed on top of him to break into the ceiling?
Could Emily and Daniel eventually reunite? No, I don't really think so. But it's a thought. A twisted, twisted thought.
Louise just keeps doodling "Mrs. Grayson" on her iPad
Here's what we learned about Louise during "Ambush": She's the sad, sad girl in home room who writes her name as Louise Grayson in her notebook and imagines herself in a wedding dress. I mean, literally. She has an iPad and PhotoShops Victoria Grayson's face onto her mother's body.
But we should remember that girlfriend is insane. We're reminded of that when she sees a vision of her mother after she hits up the sauna with Margaux in order to gain as much information as she can about Victoria Grayson. After her "mother," in her South Carolina Lily Pulitzer best, tells her she'll never be as desirable as Margaux, she does what any jealous teenager would do: lock her in the sauna in hopes she'll suffocate.
After all this time and anticipation, Emily opened the door to Grayson Manor to see her long-lost father standing there like an awkward neighbor delivering a package that was accidentally sent to his house. So why no pomp? Why no circumstance?
It was a disappointing moment mainly because David is, altogether, rather disappointing. The man still couldn't recognize his own daughter--there was not even a flicker of acknowledgment in his eyes. And he's also a rather confusing character—he's supposed to be a man astute enough to have a larger agenda, an intricate web of lies and deceit, yet he comes across as a bumbling, bewildered buffoon.
Perhaps Emily asked it best...
GET EW ON YOUR TABLET: Subscribe today and get instant access!
"Who the hell is he, Nolan?"
I mean honestly, how could you not know? If you could recognize Charlotte (who was just an infant the last time you saw her) by her eyes alone, how could you not recognize the girl you used to dance to "Everybody's Talkin" with on the beach when she was 5?
Leave it to Nolan to always give someone the benefit of the doubt, telling Emily, "This David Clarke is not the man we once knew." He argues that something truly atrocious must have happened to him between then and now to make it so that he can't recognize his own flesh and blood.
And that atrocious something also turned him into a murderer, as Emily's starting to learn. When she snuck into the old Clarke beach house while Victoria and David were mid-slumber, she found a knife hidden in her old hiding place, the Infinity Box. She asks Nolan to find out if it is at all connected to Conrad Grayson's murder.Daniel wants out... or does he?
Fresh off the revelation that his ex-fiance is actually his little sister's sister and was only using him to bring down his entire family, Daniel (naturally) just wants out of the whole twisted thing. He pays a rare visit to his mother to tell her that exact thing: That, in the war between her and Emily, "I'm not going to get caught in the crossfire and I'm walking away."
He tells Emily the same thing, with an equality militaristic metaphor, when he runs into her in the elevator at the bank. He says that after all the betrayal and all the lies, at the end of the day, all he wants to be done with it all.
I don't know about you guys, but it seems to me that there's a small part of Daniel that still wants Emily, in spite of all the torture she's put him through. Sign #1: When he gets a call from Margaux while he and Emily are stuck in the elevator, he tells her he's with a client. Sign #2: Yes, he comes off like a pompous ass, but there's a certain pining when he asks, "Was any of it real?... What about when I proposed to you?" Sign #3: Did you see how he was checking her out when she climbed on top of him to break into the ceiling?
Could Emily and Daniel eventually reunite? No, I don't really think so. But it's a thought. A twisted, twisted thought.
Louise just keeps doodling "Mrs. Grayson" on her iPad
Here's what we learned about Louise during "Ambush": She's the sad, sad girl in home room who writes her name as Louise Grayson in her notebook and imagines herself in a wedding dress. I mean, literally. She has an iPad and PhotoShops Victoria Grayson's face onto her mother's body.
But we should remember that girlfriend is insane. We're reminded of that when she sees a vision of her mother after she hits up the sauna with Margaux in order to gain as much information as she can about Victoria Grayson. After her "mother," in her South Carolina Lily Pulitzer best, tells her she'll never be as desirable as Margaux, she does what any jealous teenager would do: lock her in the sauna in hopes she'll suffocate.
