Le Chevalier D’Eon Episode 14 - Robert Wood’s Briefcase
Blind swordfighting, cursed official documents and a very fortuitous seance bring us to Dashwood’s first major move to secure the Psalm of the King, as Durand nearly cuts off Robin’s hand and NOTHING ELSE MUCH HAPPENS. Oh, and remember Anna? The scriptwriters did, suddenly, and Madame de Pompadour a brief moment of screen time.
Has Chevalier hoodwinked me? Is there really nothing actually going on at all to be explained at a later date? Whilst I can’t condone Robespierre/Dashwood’s insidious methods, I’m not sure they’re actually planning anything particularly evil when they try and bring revolution to the world (mmm, Utena) and as such their inevitable defeat doesn’t really interest me at the moment - the only thing we don’t really know is who killed Lia, and I’m not sure I care any more.
I guess Chevalier’s just hitting a bit of a bum patch again - it’s a good series, but it’s frustrating that it’s not a great one as it had bags of potential. It just takes so long to get anywhere, and even then it doesn’t seem to be getting anywhere very interesting yet.
April 23rd, 2007 at 11:42 pm
I must say that I thought the same at this point in the anime. It’s nice and all, but nothing much happened. But then episode sixteen entirely changed my mind. This probably was the last of the boring episodes (from what I’ve seen at least), things will be picking up in the next one. ;)