Masked Marauders

[Maeve]

Me again. ^^ Hope I'm not getting on your nerves. ^^

I don't think the producers knew Jackie wasn't going to be part of the second season by this episode, which is somewhat in the middle of the season, but by re-watching it more closely something caught my attention.

When Dinar the magician is dying in Maeve's arms while Sinbad is playing swashbuckling hero on a magical flying carpet, she asks him if he knows where Dim-Dim is to which he replies "In a place impossible to find, without the bees and daffodils...". Maeve tells him she doesn't understand what he means and right before he dies, he looks up straight at her and whispers "You will."

This sent chills in my bones, because we all know what happened in the opening of S2. Maeve joined Dim-Dim in that special place.

Dinar's words kinda take a whole new foreshadowing dimension in that scene.


Oh, and considering this is the episode right after The Village Vanishes, a.k.a The Kiss, I sooo love how Maeve tenderly rests her hand over Sinbad's at the end. It's so beautiful.

[Doubar]

Heh, true, with S2 his words seem to get a whole new meaning. Although I doubt that Maeve now knows what the bees and daffodils mean or else they could free DimDim in a heart-beat could they (let alone that DimDim could well have told them during S2 when he contacted them or others)? *wonders*

[Maeve]

Well, the realm they are trapped into for this story (the RPG) has no bees and daffodils. The way I see it, the realm exists with magic, with a few occasional trees and bushes, but aside from that it's all about sand and water everywhere, and a little house. It's a very small island in the middle of nowhere, like a bubble, and it doesn't have any life forms living on it, no birds or animals or pretty flowers. Not to mention the invisible wall surrounding it.

But if Dinar's words were indeed a riddle with the key to freeing Dim-Dim from the curse, Maeve still hasn't figured it out, and neither has Dim-Dim apparently...

[Doubar]

True enough. Even though, since it's a riddle even in the play Dinar's words could be the key to reaching the Hidden Realm (me thinks).

All the more since it's not said that the bees are actual bees and the daffodils actual flowers. They might be engravings, statues, whatever. After all in a world of magic the truth consists of more than is obvious to the eyes.

[Rongar]

No one really explained the bees and daffodils, but most seemed to think it was either a place with no natural life, so DimDim couldn't use the ambient nature magic there and had to rely on his own inate powers, or that it was a metaphor...that DimDim was in a place devoid of life and love...

[Maeve]

It'd be great if we could come up with the answer to that riddle somewhere in the play when the time will come to free Dim-Dim! Which if we keep this pace should be in about ten years, lol! ^^

Mala: Your theory perfectly fits my idea of the Hidden Realm where he and Maeve are trapped! A place with no natural life...

[Doubar]

I'm sure we can come up with something.

[Rongar]

I'm sure we can!

[manche]

Mar 28, 2012 12:50:22 GMT -5 Maeve said:

Oh, and considering this is the episode right after The Village Vanishes, a.k.a The Kiss, I sooo love how Maeve tenderly rests her hand over Sinbad's at the end. It's so beautiful.

I did not like this episode so much, but the interaction between Maeve and Sinbad was great, not only the ending scene, but their talk at the beginning and how he hurried towards her after the Firouz's notice, there were a lot of hints of their relationship before of course, but i would say that the Village vanishes was really important turning point in their relationship and there their relationship started to climb toward the higher level which was reached in the last episode of season one.

Yes, with the knowledge that Maeve will end in the another realm as well these words really get the new meaning. I agree with Maeve it is a little creepy.

And I like the Maeve's magic at the beginning, the most the bit when the boys were amazingly watching the flying book.

[maeve3000]

ohhh I guess I got that wrong all the time.
or at least the translation was failed again.
I understood it that NO one can find it without bees and daffodils... you need these twos....
okay that make more sence to me now.

[manche]

A few things which I have noticed in this episode:

Did you notice that the boy Sali did not say the name of his father or his own name to the young king? The king left the prison without any information but he got into the right house without troubles. Maybe he was a sort of a telepath?

I am not sure how it was exactly, but the crew speculated that the Royal Protector imprisoned Dinar somewhere, but it was not the truth at all, was it? He was hidden somewhere and he used his spells against tyrannical rulers with the help of these children, if I remember it correctly.

At the end of the episode when Dinar was dying did you notice that all people disappeared from the chamber? There was only Maeve with him, Sinbad was off on the carpet, but where were the rest of the crew, all villagers and defeated guards? They were there the scene before and the scene after that but they were missing in this scene.

I do not know why exactly, but I like the final fight of Sinbad with the villain on the carpet. It brought a little oriental atmosphere into this episode, I have an impression that a similar fight was in a story about Sinbad.

I was also entertained by the line of tax collector who said that Sinbad thinks that he is a sort of legend. Maybe he does not think this, but he is a legend undoubtedly.

And one of these boys was our young Sinbad from The Bully. I know that they recycled actors many times but it was quite funny to see "our main hero" to play a minor character.