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"Taboo" final episode Season One.
- It might have been five decades ago when three-dimensional chess made its way on to TV via Spock in "Star Trek," but thinking ahead on multiple dimensions, anticipating your opponents next eighteen moves - and having a counter strategy in place for each - manipulating every other player and pulling off one opponent-crushing "checkmate" move after another has never been better visualized than by Delaney's plans and actions in "Taboo."
- In the morally warped world of "Taboo," the first time I somewhat respected the Prince Regent was when he said, basically, the hell with the rules of chess, I want Delaney dead - kill him. It was an acknowledgement that he couldn't out fox him, so his plan B was brute force backed up by the power of the sovereign. It's a "I want to win, fair or not" strategy that showed conviction and a recognition of his own limitations. Not moral, but not limp either, as he'd been up to then
- In the crazy meta-world of Delaney and Zilpha, where water is a conduit to another existential plane, attempting to kill oneself by jumping in the Thames is like trying to drown a fish - it ain't going to work. Zilpha is still with us / with Delaney / ready to bring fresh crazy next season
- Manipulative of the viewer's emotions as it was, I don't care: I rooted for Delaney's crew of misfits, whores, vagabonds, street urchins and hired hands to beat back the British troops and, by the time they unfurled the flag, I was emotionally drained but fully rooting for that undersized ship to carry-on
- Bring on Season Two
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