Kings 1x02 - Prosperity

[butterfly]

Political intrigue! Yay! And David stampeding through it all, upsetting all the apple carts. Hee. Everyone else is trying to play the game and he's all *flail* *see my big flaily emotion*.

I feel so bad for Jack. He loses his seat at the big table (his uncle, I think, further orchestrating discord by making him feel like his mother as well as his father has abandoned him for the greener pastures of David), then the credit card decline. His men love him, though (which we saw implied last week when David was all, "Hell, no, Jack didn't have anything to do with the ambush."), so at least he has that.

They introduced a few Big Secrets this week (the photograph; Michelle's vow) that I'm sure will be followed up on later.

The birds were epic and over the top and awesome. They wouldn't leave because they had a purpose to save David.

*pastes tiny hearts all over show*

Comments

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Because of the original story, I have strong hopes that he won't go evil -- and David hasn't been mean to him yet (and defended him on tv and all). In SV, the audience always knew that Lex was canonically going to turn evil. For this story, the literary weight is on the other side -- he's supposed to be David's closest and dearest friend.

It actually makes more sense for them to have Jack get genuinely disillusioned with his father before going over to David's side than the insta-love that happens in the scriptures (much as I enjoy it). Of course, the show could prove me wrong and make Jack evil as a really evil thing, but I'm not sure why they'd do that.