A Discovery of Witches, season 1: episode 5
Miscellaneous thoughts...
It seems pretty shitty of Miriam to tell Marcus to call Baldwin and tell him Matthew is mating with Diana. Especially because we know he’s sort of trying to fight it. He did just tell Diana they won’t be breaking the covenant. I mean, call your father! You know?
When Ysabeau takes Diana hunting and tells her it’s not as romantic as people believe, I’m like, excuse me ma’am, have you read chapter 27?! <3
The parallel of her hunting and Matthew hunting Gillian was a nice touch.
The way he just appears behind her from far away, and then he’s just there... I love how that was shot. And I also enjoyed Matthew almost killing Gillian... oop.
We get to see Hamish again! Yay!!!
And more congregation stuff, with Baldwin being a boss man, “Rules are rules” he says with his rolling Welsh R’s.
It’s surprising that Knox actually says to Satu that she can’t put a living witch through an opening spell, what with how terrible he’s been.
One of the best songs of the whole show plays as Matthew calls Diana from Oxford, and then proceeds to work on her tests. It’s so tense, and I just wanna scream! Tell her, you fool!
‘And when the door shuts, bolted, I'm thrown out of the way,
I'm the girl who borrowed someone,
I'm the night without the day,
And when the week moves onwards it's ruthless and it's grey,
Like this girl who once held someone,
And was caught along the way.’
When Matthew finally returns to Sept-Tours though, he’s fully ready to be with her. And as they clasped hands, I got chills. Goose bumps everywhere. It honestly made me teary. The overwhelming sadness she felt when he left, almost drowning in her own Witchwater was immense. It was such a release when they were finally together again. Bound.
Matthew to Diana: “From this moment, we will always be one.”
Yessssssssssssssssssssssss!!!
Of course he has scars! Of course! But he’s worried, and he’s all vulnerable. *sobs*
The bundling-not-bundling-but-possibly-french-bundling scene was sweet. Nice change to see this kind of pleasure than what we usually see.
Little bit shorter, because I just got all mushy from the love!
(Credit/thanks to @murddockz @stardust-pond @mametupa @erikllehnsherrs @discoveriesofbishmont @claramaximoff @witch-vamp-demon @random-fandom-whump @yemme for the gifs 💜)
