It gives me no shortage of joy to mentally merge this episode's setting with that of "Darkest Dungeon" - that sir Quincy, with his supposed insanity, sprawling, endless mansion (opulent and imperial indeed), seemingly infinite resources, interest in spiritism and "Georgian sensibility" makes for a mean Ancestor (and he thinks he is a literal ancestor to the heroes to boot). Now how do I avoid the urge to just type in a couple dozen mostly unrelated Ancestor quotes?..
Anyway, this episode is great because it is 1) very humorous and legitimately funny 2) presents, in essence, a caper that the audience can reasonably easily solve before the reveal without being talked down to (and with a truly genius red herring thrown in by the "equine friend") 3) doesn't go for the "qUiRCky sO randOM" style of humour like a lot of the rest of the series does (outside a couple of moments like Quincy's table-walking) 4) is stylistically excellent.
This episode slighly misses the mark with a few jokes and giving some strange character development to the main characters (although Wirt's kind of works out?..).
Now remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer. My obsession has caused this great foulness. Who could fathom the hateful scorn of the swirling stars?.
Anyway, this episode is great because it is 1) very humorous and legitimately funny 2) presents, in essence, a caper that the audience can reasonably easily solve before the reveal without being talked down to (and with a truly genius red herring thrown in by the "equine friend") 3) doesn't go for the "qUiRCky sO randOM" style of humour like a lot of the rest of the series does (outside a couple of moments like Quincy's table-walking) 4) is stylistically excellent.
This episode slighly misses the mark with a few jokes and giving some strange character development to the main characters (although Wirt's kind of works out?..).
Now remind yourself that overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer. My obsession has caused this great foulness. Who could fathom the hateful scorn of the swirling stars?.