Overview:
Adonis takes his questions to the heart of the castle while Belle considers the meaning of true strength.
Our Take:
The basic premise of this story has enough there to be compelling. Unfortunately, there’s so much convoluted mess piled on that it’s impossible to make sense of what’s happening. I think part of the problem is that words are used that we know, but they mean something completely different in the context of this world, and we aren’t given any explanation on the difference. Maybe this is one of those stories that doesn’t want to offend its audience and assume they’re dumb by over-explaining, but if that’s the case, then maybe I’m dumb.
Adonis is the closest thing we have to a villain at this point, and when he made a deal with the new king, Gaff, you can bet I wasn’t surprised at all when he betrayed him. I was slightly surprised when the singer Shelly betrayed him, though. At least it felt like a betrayal, but perhaps it’s not, but now that Adonis is going on about wanting to face down, I can only imagine it was something that wasn’t supposed to happen because Gaff released Belle and her friends from prison to come help.