ADOW Season 3 Thoughts [Spoilers Heavy]
Finally finished ADOW S3 and wow. Just wow. Still in shock that it’s over but here are my thoughts on the last season. (also, I have not read the third book yet, so I will make another post afterwards, this will be based on show only)
Bishmont will forever and always be a part of me, I love them to death and I think that this season wrapped up their story well enough (gotta read time’s convert soon). Their love story is one of the best I’ve seen (and read), Matthew & Teresa did an absolutely wonderful and fantastic job of portraying them both and their love for one another. Chemistry is off the charts, and there were plenty of moments/nuances between them, that I loved this season. Their “goodbye” to each other at ep. 6 and Matthew waking up brought some tears to my eyes, and THAT scene in ep. 5 ;) And the birth of the twins!!!! They did it so well, I think the birthing is my favorite thing of s3 ngl (tho Ysabeau should’ve been there), and that dance at the end was just perfect~! Besides the fact that it was funny how they were casually dancing and making out while everyone else was just doing their own thing, I guess you can say they’re in their own world ;) Also them being parents just warms my heart, so many “aww” moments.
Matthew calling Diana mon coeur and ma lionne has set the standards for me, because I mean c’mon how can it not?
Miriam & Chris? I SHIP THEM SO HARD, they had really good chemistry in the short amount of scenes we see them in, I’m not sure if it’s like that in the books but I’m going to stick with it.
Chris & Fernando really came in and said “people love us” and there’s no doubt about that.
Jack having blood rage surprised me a bit but I got over it real quick. He’s like a bean with anger issues lol but still a bean.
Idk if we were supposed to feel pity for Benjamin but I surely didn’t.
Satu really became the next Peter Knox huh? Sorry (NOT) but she had it coming.
Phoebe & Marcus? C U T E!! Can’t wait to read Time’s Convert. Truth be told, I liked them way more in S3 than in S2 for some reason and I have no idea why....
Baldwin was iffy to me. He’s literally such a jerk but he’s not a bad guy. Liked him so much more towards the end of the season, I liked the moments between him and Matthew, and him and Ysabeau.
Gallowglass, dear dear Gallowglass. My poor boi. Tbh, him liking Diana was kind of out of nowhere to me? I never really got that sense from him while watching the show (maybe in the books it’s more fleshed out), but I rlly just felt bad for him because he’s pining for someone he can never have. If I didn’t like Matthew as much as I did, I could see him with Diana. He deserves to find happiness for himself so hopefully Deborah will write a book on him? Pretty please? He is one of my favorite characters.
Agatha Wilson, Sarah Bishop, Ysabeau DeClermont, Miriam Sheppard, Phoebe Taylor, Diana Bishop are quite literally ✨BADASS QUEENS ✨
The fights/conclusion of the villains in ADOW was kind of anti-climatic for me. I was kind of expecting more tbh, like with Knox I didn’t think he’d be taken out just like that, Benjamin.... was kind of expecting the others to take him down but I’m fine with how he went out with Diana and her Goddess’s arrow, and with Satu... was expecting some actual fight? But then again Diana is so overpowered at this point that I shouldn’t have expected much LMAO
The magic moments never fail to excite and amaze me.
Ransom and Geraldine, would’ve liked to see more of them.
Domenico coming through at the end was great.
The twins!! Rebecca & Philip are precious and will grow up with lots of love. That moment at the Christening when the priest was asking about the God parents and like 10 people stood up had me laughing, but it was great. Also, I’m still a bit puzzled on what the twins actually are. I know Rebecca is a vampire? And Philip is a witch? But it seems like they’re both? But it wasn’t really specified, or did I just miss it and is actually dumb? LOL
Marcus & Matthew & Jack: Matthew has much to make up for and improve on (he is quite a flawed character but he’s trying to be better), but I think he’s a good father-ish (with Jack, but he needs to be way better for Marcus) and will be a better one with the twins. Loved seeing his moments with his sons, and he looks way too good with babies <333
Diana’s outfit when going to the Congregation? ABSOLUTELY STUNNING and Agatha becoming the new leader? As she should.
Timothy deserved better and Philip should’ve been alive to see the twins.
The DeClermont family is the best family. (problematic but also very wholesome)
Overall, though difficult to come in terms that ADOW has ended, the season was a good one and a good conclusion to the story. Thank you to Deborah Harkness for creating these characters and story that we know and love and to the wonderful and irreplaceable cast that played them. Thank you to Matthew Goode and Teresa Palmer for giving us such a impactful performance and giving us Matthew & Diana. I hope to see you guys work together again.
“It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.”
“In every ending, there is a new beginning.”
