Gerbert is prepared to use this to his advantage in order to gain sole possession of the Book of Life, probably shutting out not just the witches and daemons, but the other vampires as well. Institutional memory is much easier to maintain when a single individual can hold it for thousands of years.

If Diana returns to a point too far in the future, by the time she gets back they might lose track of what they’re waiting for and why. That was a dig at the witches, who can’t afford to be as patient. As a vampire, he’s got all the time in the world to wait. Once they realize that Diana and Matthew have timewalked to the past to hide while searching for Ashmole 782, Gerbert decides that they’ll wait for the fugitives’ inevitable return to the present/future. I hate that Peter and Gerbert are corrupting her. Satu has the potential to be a great witch. What he has is many more years of training to hone his intense ambition and desire. I think these two instances show that Satu has much more innate power and better instincts than Peter. Last season, Satu also felt that Diana was spellbound when she examined her, while Peter missed it when he examined Diana as a child. I don’t think he senses it the way she does. Satu asks if Peter can feel the power in Diana’s spell, but he doesn’t directly answer her. Meanwhile, Peter stands off to the side, assigning his own motivations to the missing couple. Though Knox always presents himself as the leader and magical expert, it’s Satu and Gerbert who closely examine evidence Diana and Matthew left behind, then quickly solve the case. Now, they’re examining the remnants of Diana’s magic, trying to figure how she and Matthew escaped. At the end of S1, Gerbert (Trevor Eve), Satu (Malin Buska) and Peter Knox (Owen Teale) were breaking into the house, ready to capture and torture Diana the same way witches did with her parents. We open in the room where we left off, minutes after Diana (Teresa Palmer) and Matthew (Matthew Goode) timewalked out of the old Bishop house in upstate NY on Halloween night. If you haven’t read the book, I’ll just leave you to wonder about the unfamiliar names for now. Besides having Diana and Matthew’s timewalk to Elizabethan England to enjoy this season, at long last we’ll meet daemon playwright Christopher Marlowe (Tom Hughes), James Purefoy as Matthew’s father Philippe, Steven Cree as Gallowglass, Sheila Hancock as Goody Alsop, Adelle Leonce as Phoebe Taylor and Barbara Marten as Queen Elizabeth I. This is my favorite book in Deborah Harkness’ series, so I’ll be attempting to keep up with weekly recaps this season. Hello, witches, daemons and vampires! The long-awaited second season of A Discovery of Witches is finally here.

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