Tuesday, 29 April 2014

TURN Of Cabbage and Kings Review - Abe's seeing Blue


*SPOILERS FOR THE EPISODE FOLLOW*

This show just doesn't dissapointment does it I find myself liking this show more every week and having missed it and then trying to catch up with it again it makes me wish we had a recap at the start. But it didn't take long for me to start remembering just where things are as they stand and how Abe was close to boiling point this week as far as his loyalty to his father and the British. What's awful because I'm Britsh myself I find myself just hating the Redcoats in this programme and I think it is just a praise to the writers for getting that feeling from everyone. 

So last epsiode we saw Simcoe in the hands of Ben Tallmade and the men of Washington as they planned to move onto one of the forts occupied by their fellow soilders. But that didn't go exactly to plan as they made thier way through the mist and fog they were greeted by wounded soilders retreating from the fort. Who told them the fort had been overrun and they had taken Washington hostage and he was most likely already dead. Now what I like is that Washington feels almost more like a story that thier is this general out thier fighting the redcoats to take back thier homes for his people. It feels more like a rumour or a story that they tell young kids to send them off to sleep with hope in their minds. Which I can imagine that they most probably did. Now we all know how this story will turn out and where it will eventually lead to but part of me did think that oh god are they really on the verge of losing. I mean they don't have to go compelty factual with the show as long as they end it the way it ended in history that's fine but you can go off the books with it. But back to those soilders coming out of the fog I thought that was brillaint the way these figures slowly just emerged through the fog was like the living dead men that have already given up. But what was great about that scene and I feel he was the stand out part of the episode was Simcoe. All of the little snarky comments that he have through out the episode were funny and he's become that character you love to hate. The way that he piped up and say yeah well let's just continue on then was great and it shows the difference between the red coats and the blue. But he played a prominent role through out the episode as he patronised every memeber of the squad because he knows he can't be killed well not for now anyway. I think where this became most prominent was when they were sitting round at table for dinner before some of thier fellow soilders tried to cause a mutiny against thier captain. The way he say thier and praised them for thier food and wine but at the same time patronised them for it was great and he have that persona of that he's above them all. While I don't particularly like his character I think he's like the Joffery to Gamw of Thrones you love to hate him but if he wasn't there for those paticular scenes they would be boring and a hole would be there hard to fill without them. 

But let's talk about those mutiny boys quickly because I felt sorry for younger one that was shot because he was part of it even when Ben begged for him to be spared. It just shows what sort of world that they lived in and if you went against the cause that you fought for then you were already dead. I can also guess that this isn't the last that we are going to see of these sort of mutinys happening as men begin to question their loyalty to the cause that they fight for. They were also men that Caleb fought along side as well and I would have guessed called brothers at one point or another but not anymore. As Caleb went to find Abe and try and get him to become loyal to thier cause and get more information for them he found no one but Mary. Caleb is a character that I neither like nor hate mostly because I feel that he is neither loyal to the blues or the reds. I mean his brothers in arms tried to cause a mutiny so why wouldn't he do the same if he felt that things weren't going according to plan. But I did like the Caleb, Mary and Abe team up when he made it back from New York that was great to see I just wish that we could have seen more of that. But I did like the relationship between Mary and Caleb as I sensed some sort of tension between the both of them like theirs more to thier relationship then they are letting on. But seeing Abe become that spy that we all knew he would become was great as he helped Caleb escape and have him information about a German retaliation in the coming weeks in New York. The ending with Caleb was brillaint as well as he sung his way out in style making his escape from the enemy. I didn't find that this episode really continued the story much as far as plot it was more of a continuation of the previous weeks episode by giving Abe the motive to become a spy. 

So Abe and his father left to go to New York which worked in Calebs favour which was a nice and lucky coincidence for both of them. As they made thier way into New York which I thought was beautiful by the way they didn't scrap corners on anything in the show. It was fantastic to watch as his father said well to the island of New York and as the boats pass they reveal something that looks like it's come straight out of the books. Even if you don't like the show which I could understand its a hard show to get into and I certainly didn't feel it myself when it first started. But while it does take a little while to get into if you stick with it I see this show having a great future. Well especially seeing as Abe is a fully fledged spy now thanks to his father keeping secrets from him. Which came out over dinner when he was made aware that his father was selling veg to the British under everyone's nose and at the expense of others all to help the cause if you were. It was great to watch as Abe slowly started to boil until he bubbled over through anger at his father for lying to him all this time. The high point of Abes part in the epsiode was when he through the poppy into the water as he watched the red coats praised by the crowed as they marched. It was brilliant to watch and finally see that we are going to see Abe finally start to do some spying after all that is what we are all watching the show for. 

But to be honest that's about it for the episode I didn't really feel that it continued the plot on in anyway it was used more as a way to give Abe a motive for leaving his father and going back and becoming a agent for Caleb. I still like that we haven't seem Washington in the show yet and I wouldn't mind if they kept it that way because it then makes him seem like a fable a hero in stories. I just hope that the plot starts of move a bit faster now that he's a spy as I feel it's been quite slow at the moment.

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