‘forced’ you think Grant’s gonna fall for that, ‘forced’ ?
Episode Recap:
So this palace is huge. Xander and Grant are walking in hallways and Grant is think-complaining at Xander that the janitors aren’t doing a good enough job. Apparently Xander is the self-styled ‘Evil Overlord’ of this island. Chip on his shoulder much? Well there’s just been a political shakeup on his island and we get the first mention of Prime Minister Di, who Xander has to perform a ceremonial investiture of since she’s just been elected, the first woman PM of Eynhallow and a Satanist witch who contributes to the palace cleaning problem by holding seances that get ectoplasm all over the ceiling. I shudder to think, but that’s what Grant says. Xander suggests barring women from political office in order to avoid dealing with Di. Grant would love to do this, but resists on principle. As Xander is barreling along merrily, Grant stops him and tells him that even though Xander is a little rough around the edges, that Grant recognizes that he saved Kore’s life, and that he has faith that Xander will do the right thing in the end and let her go. Xander isn’t the easiest person to be around, actually if we hadn’t noticed, and Grant says he’s got no right to think that Kore would put up with him. Xander turns around and says that if Grant hadn’t forced him to save them at gunpoint, they wouldn’t be in this mess. Poor Grant has nothing to say to this. I would have had some choice words that would have probably gotten me melted into the pavement, but that’s just me. Grant is a Saint.
General, you are standing in front of Ivan Karamazov, the nihilist. The guy ain't got no reason to live. He is so bored. The only reason Eugene doesn't cut his own lifeline short is because that would be even more boring! Now I am obsessed with the 1981 reference. What benevolent dictatorship is being referred to? And to be replaced by a constitutional monarchy, at that … And I always considered myself pretty sharp where contemporary history was concerned. I guess I was wrong. I don't understand the dynamic of the general's and Eugene's relationship. Is there fear on the general's side? They've been to war together, is there some type of military loyalty that would keep Eugene (Eugene, of all people) from tearing the general's head off for him (that would solve the telepath problems once and for all, yes?)?! Diaboloniana Beelzebubba … why does that name sound delicious, a bad play on Russian names and remind of Hillary Clinton, all at the same time?! I hope so much we will get to see her in the upcoming chapters. I imagine her looking like a walking ham in valenki and an evil international agenda.
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