Finished Season 3 of A discovery of Witches a few days ago and here are my thoughts: (Warning: spoilers to an extent)
I loved it! I do wish it was longer but I know because of COVID-19 it had to be cut shorter, but for what we got with the episodes we have I was happy and grateful. I’m really sad it has ended and say goodbye.
The birth of the twins (it was honestly so much better than the book (sorry) , the music, the acting, Teresa was amazing in the scene. I do wish Yseabeau and Marthe was there though)
(A lot of people might disagree with me about this but) Satu working with Benjamin instead of Knox. I felt like there was a parallel with her working with Benjamin. With Diana and Matthew (the good Weaver witch and vampire with Blood rage) attempting to end the covenant, save the creatures and bring the creatures to a new age out of the long lived fear and darkness that plagued them all and affected them with siring (vampire), magic (witches) and mental illnesses (daemons) issues and that we are all from the same tree but different branches vs Satu and Benjamin (the evil version of the two)
Sarah killing Knox instead of Diana (It felt right for her to do so, he had taken her sister and brother in law, almost killed her niece and killed her wife. It felt poetic for her to destroy him after he underestimated her as a mere “kitchen witch” and “pest”)
Toby Regbo as Jack! I loved him! 🥰❤️🥰❤️🥰 At first glance I wasn’t sure about Toby playing this tormented damaged baby but after seeing him in just one episode 🥺🥺 He’s such a baby bean, must be protected at all costs
I loved Toby’s portrayal of blood rage. You could see a difference between him (Jack’s) and Matthew’s blood rage (seen in season 2) with Jack’s it is triggered by anything and he tries to fight for control, to retain his humanity before the rage fuels him and makes him feral, it’s a constant mental battle between the blood rage monster he “supposedly” is (according to Baldwin and Gerbert) vs the person he wants to be whereas Matthew’s appears more rage instigated and feral like a angered wolf ready to attack its prey
Diana calling Jack her son after Baldwin attacks him and tells him to let him go ❤️❤️❤️
With Jack’s attack on Baldwin before the previous point after he bad mouths him, loved that. It definitely showed the difference in blood rage’s triggers with Jack compared to Matthew
Going back to Jack again, I LOVED the reunion! I honestly prefer it better than the book. Even the scene before that when Benjamin comes looking for Jack by asking Hubbard where is he and to let him know when he shows up was great. (It was like “right, time to return what’s not mine. Hey Jack, get in the car you’re going home.”)
Father Hubbard fighting back against Knox, I watched that scene over and over again
Marcus’ flock in New Orleans (LOVED them!!! Ransome, Geraldine, there was amazing from the moment they appeared onscreen. I loved them giving shit to Matthew after the damage he did to them, calling him out and making him realise he needs to own up to what he did and they will not let him off that easy)
Marcus calling Matthew out on his hypocrisy (I wish there was more of it!!) 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Matthew being the one to say the names of all of Marcus’ children he killed then Ransome tells him to say them all and if he misses one he will kill him instead of Ransome telling him to name them all in order to gain him and the others as part of the scion. It really showed that Matthew finally coming to terms with what he has done to Marcus’ children
Marcus and Phoebe! They were so cute, not enough scenes 🥰
The christening and the set up before it was beautiful.
Gebert’s face when Baldwin tells him that he is stepping down as the de clairmont representative and Diana says she’s the new rep! I pissed myself at his reaction
Agatha! Badass daemon queen Agatha! I loved her this season, her bravery to stand up against Knox in episode 1 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I’m so happy for her
Loved Gallowgalss in this season. I felt so bad for him in the end, no one deserves to feel like that
Dominico’s character development! I honestly hated that gutless kiss ass weasel in the first season and second but in the 3rd, he has my respect. I loved when he realised the damage Gerbert’s leadership would do to the creatures and defies him by telling Baldwin the truth (The killings, everything that was supposedly Matthew’s “fault” was in fact Gerbert’s doing as he was working with Benjamin all these years)
Chris and Miriam scenes! They were so CUTE!!!! 🥰🥰🥰 I kinda wish they would end up together
Fernando 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 I love him! He was such a wonderful character, I loved his interaction with Sarah about mourning their lost one and telling her that he wasn’t allowed to mourn Hugh and not acknowledged as his Mate
Jack, Chris, the twins, Sarah, Miriam becoming Knights of Lazurus
What I wished was in the final season/ what I would add if I could change some things about the season:
(Please note: I’m making a suggestion of what I would add. Trigger Warning: Mention of assault)
Phillipe and Emily’s ghosts talking to each other just as Emily’s funeral ends (episode 1, watching Diana and Sarah leave)
Phillipe and Diana’s conversation in the end
The horrors of Benjamin’s torture on the witches (to an extent, more if Satu and Knox was with him, both “ripping” witches open with magic to see how he could conceive a witch-vampire child like Diana and Matthew, like how that witch tried to see inside Diana’s mind in season 2) and Jack’s
Mention of Jack’s daughter being killed in front of him by Benjamin and his sons while he is forced to watch (to show the mental trauma they inflicted on him)
More Yseabeau scenes! I would’ve liked to have her being held prisoner at Gerbert’s as leverage to cooperate to the congregation as she was in the book and her causing mayhem whilst there
Janet Gowdie making an appearance of some sorts or having her a member of the congregation or a retired member of the congregation coming to offer Diana aid when searching for the final page of the Book of Life
Satu and Diana having a witch fight in Poland (I’m thinking something like Scarlet Witch vs Thanos in Avengers endgame, to an extent) (Satu, angry that Diana has become the Book of Life and taken its power, and that Diana is the witch of the prophecy threatens to go to the Congregation and threatens her children, and Diana, glowing with the goddess’s power, her own and the knots attacks Satu, destroying walls and rooms like the fight with Matthew and Benjamin with magic then she spellbinds her and ends with something similar to the line in the 3rd book “come after my children again and I’ll throw you down that well and leave you there.”
Jack calling Matthew and Diana Dad and Mum (spewing that never happened especially in the final scene between Jack and Matthew in the final episode)
Jack and Marcus have a one on one conversation about Jack being allowed to live after what he did and Marcus’ children not and how Marcus is upset about Matthew’s decision to let his brother live and how he hates Jack for that. They would also talk about how Matthew treats Jack with more love and tenderness than he does with Marcus (how Marcus is treated like Baldwin (with Phillipe seeing Baldwin as his pride and Matthew his (Phillipe’s) joy), like Matthew’s pride and Jack is the joy) and the two finding some ground to walk together on. (I want these two to be goofy brothers)
The wall drawing/ blood rage scene with Jack!!!!! (I would’ve loved this scene to have been in the show! It was my favourite scene in the book! If I could imagine how the scene would go it would be like this: Jack is drawing in his notebook of a victim’s face, etching the details of a jaw and then all of a sudden he gets lost in his head and he sees everything, all the victims’ faces swarm him, their screams deafen the sounds of the outside world, the page of the book not enough to get them out of his head, his life as a human comes, the man with the breaches, life on the streets, his life as a vampire, the blood rage, Benjamin’s torment, his daughter’s death, all being etched in the walls, the pencils becoming stubbles, then disappearing one by one, his eyes black, skin pasty white, heart thundering in his chest all while he is humming and singing: “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men couldn’t put poor Jack back together again.” (Nod to the book scene)
Jack being mentioned to have designed the new family crest or giving Diana the emblem (the one scene in the final scene is the crest Jack designs)
Diana’s parents appearing as ghosts, possibly lending her their powers as she deals with Benjamin
The fight scene with Matthew and Benjamin to be longer and more intense
Note: I would recommend going to @minim236 to see more about the Marcus and Jack and Baldwin and Matthew comparison and Matthew’s hypocrisy
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