![]() The promised confrontation between the witches Diana and Satu, light and dark, might have been another option. I knew that, as an adaptation of a first book, more would be set up than resolved in this series – and yet I expected some arc of a journey to take place.Ī return to Oxford and the Bodleian library, perhaps, to bring us full circle and give us another look at Ashmole 782. Instead we were given a final scene that left us with no fulfilment of the set-up as Gerbert, Satu and Knox arrived at the house so Matthew and Diana set foot into the past – or did they? It seems we’ll have to wait to the next series to even find out if they managed to run away effectively.Įven with the presence of the incredibly helpful magic house to speed the plot along there was an awful lot left unresolved, giving this first series little feel of completion on any level, which raises the question of whether viewers who have already read and loved the trilogy of novels would make a much better audience for this series than those coming to it afresh. Suddenly this became less about winning the fight than leaving the fight behind entirely, and all possibility of a full-on vampire/witch/demon showdown was forgotten. I’ve long enjoyed this series’ interest in little historical objects that are given important weighting, and it was good to see the statuette owned by demons turning out to have had a real significance to Matthew, although more than just a cursory explanation of his connection to it would have helped to really hook me into the idea of the couple escaping into the past. Could she master the same ability? Of course she could. Where could she possibly hide? The answer lay in her newly uncovered gifts, and the surprise revelation that Diana’s father had been able to walk in time. In no time at all the Congregation had formed a new alliance between vampires and witches in order to get hold of Diana’s power, and the unlikely threesome of Gerbert, Satu and Knox were on their way to the US to confront her. However, after a quick five-minute break and a vote he was found innocent, while also allowing Satu to be forgiven for her transgressions. ![]() The punishment? Death by beheading and fire. On to the next scene that promised more than it delivered: Baldwin ended up standing impromptu trial for helping Matthew and Diana to escape the Congregation’s instructions. In no time at all everyone was back to normal and looking no different for this encounter, possibly because there was just too much to get through to be slowed down by emotion or recriminations at this stage. Diana fed him her own blood, which should have been a hugely exciting moment (aren’t we all waiting for the bite in vampire/human romantic stories?) and yet it fell flat for me, feeling rushed. It took yet more magic and a promise to a Goddess figure, not explained, to revive him. Diana’s magic responded, and she killed Juliette easily – but Matthew was left dying. Juliette, the vampire who had rebelled against Gerbert’s control of her, tracked down Diana and Matthew and attacked them. ![]() So did it give us all a marshmallow or two while setting up the promise of more?Ī plunge into immediate action was a good start. Gerbert has determined the couple is at Sept-Tours and sends Knox to retrieve them, and more importantly, their page from the Book of Life.A Discovery of Witches needed to find the right balance in this final episode of series one in order to make us happy, yet leave us wanting to wait for answers. They believe the witches, vampires and daemons each have one page, and they believe they know who amongst the witches possesses one of them: Sarah and Emily. In the meantime, Gerbert and Knox have teamed up to find the three missing pages that were torn out of the Book of Life. RELATED: A Discovery of Witches: Matthew Uses His Unique Abilities To Appease the Queen She's now housing daemons and witches along with the usual vampires, and when Marcus arrives with his girlfriend Phoebe Taylor, there's even a human in the mix. With their arrival, Ysebeau's home has become a creature refuge. In response, Sophie, Nathaniel, Margaret and Nathaniel's mother, Agatha, go to Sept-Tours where they hope they can keep the baby protected. After Baldwin De Clermont told Gerbert about Sophie and Nathaniel's baby, Margaret - a witch born to daemons - in Episode 8, the witch Peter Knox went to verify the information and then warned he would be back to take the child in due time so she could be raised by her own kind.
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