Cinnamon Ass

The Fab Four meet up with the French ambassador to England upon arrival en Angleterre and have a lot of dull courtly meetings to set up what’s going on in the England arc, mostly involving documents held by a bloke named Robert Wood. In the meantime, Robespierre and co. meet up with his boss, the nefarious Dashwood, who has bound him with a Psalm around his neck, and D’Eon has sexy nightmares about Robespierre whispering sweet nothings at him.

You may have heard of a play called “Six Characters In Search of an Author”. I sometimes feel that Chevalier is “One Author In Search of Several Characters”; the narrative is quite well constructed, given that nothing really happens except endless historical references and some glacial plot progression, but it’s unfortunate that D’Eon, Teillagory, Durand and Robin have become really utterly uninteresting to watch. I’m not asking for facial tics and histrionics, but they don’t actually tend to do anything very much except go with the flow, and D’Eon himself is only interesting because of his frequent Lia possession moments - and she’s by far the most interesting character in the show.

Well, her and Robespierre, as he gets more development than poor Robin has had for the entire show in this episode. Bless him.

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