Episode 1 - 'Destiny'
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I want more Tony. That first scene just isn't enough.
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Tessa sure can recognize people by only their eyes. The man who used to work for her father is no mystery, even after many years. I guess the townies are the blind ones and newcomers will have a better chance of discovering the identity of the Queen. (Yeah, right)
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A camera shot of a brown feisty horse as Tessa arrives at the Alvarado hacienda. Will this end up serving as the Queen of Swords' horse?
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Scene in the dead garden. Hits my heart each time I watch this episode. I'd love to see more of the Alvarado hacienda's exterior. With the garden replanted and re-grown. Beautiful again, just like Marta promises.
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Hawk-choke-hawk-spit: Like the popular clique in high school, these aristocrats are nice to your face and then stab you in the back. Selfish. Shallow. Power-hungry. Yet the underlings will always worship you in a way and want to BE you. Colonel Luis Ramirez Montoya is so plainly icky in this episode, with not as much depth as we will see later on.
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I enjoy flamenco dancing.
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So thick and voluminous Tessa's hair can be as shown in her "kata" with the sword. Why are her tresses worn so down and sheen all the rest of the time? It adds pounds to her face.
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Grisham's secrets: Why did he leave the army? Scandal! It probably wasn't by choice. Either that or the army didn't know he was leaving until he was gone.
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Don Hidalgo: "There is nothing like married life."
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You act so content, Gaspar, advising Tessa to make babies. Where are yours? Does Vera not hang around the hacienda long enough to create any?
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I'd love to lunch above the crashing waves. Just not with a crazy capitán.
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On her wedding night, Tessa's husband will be the happiest man in all of California. I guess we now have the real reason Doctor Helm sweeps into town next week!
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Don Raphael Alvarado
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Santa Rita wine. Symbolic? I don't know who Saint Rita was or what she is the patron saint of though.
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Tessa wakes up late in the evening from a dream. She rummages through a back room. She hurries to dress all in black from the trunk of various forgotten clothes, plus a flashy red sash. No wonder she's a little shaky at first in her fight against Grisham. She gets better though. The coffee must have kicked in finally.
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I love the look on Montoya's face as he notices the tarot card left in the dust at his feet.
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And even better is the look when Tessa falls backwards into his arms. I'm feeling…faint…in thought of this execution. Like she's covered in mud or something, Montoya is annoyed, disgusted, and VERY uncomfortable that a beautiful woman is touching his uniform.
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Awesome horse the Queen has to leap up onto the gallows.
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The kid wet his pants.
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It's so obvious as the Queen rides away from him.
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It's completely understandable that it would happen, but strange that no one on either mailing list I subscribe to mentioned it.
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Very realistic to the life of the condemned, and everything else in the world was debated and critiqued and picked apart.
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I was surprised.
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