In season one of the beloved fantasy epic television show of the 20 teens that caught

everybody's attention because it had this great writing.

There's this beloved character in season one and he gets in trouble partway through the

season and his fate is in the hands of an erratic, all-powerful king, but there is this

sweet girl from an outsider group who marries the king and is now in a position of influence.

And when the good guy main character who you care about is in trouble and his fate is in

the hands of the king, this queen goes to him and she advocates, he's like, hey, you're

making this rash decision to execute this guy, you should reconsider.

Please reconsider and it looks like the king is going to reconsider and then at the last

moment when he makes his public proclamation, he's like, I have re-re-considered.

And then chaos ensues and the drama is figuring out whether or not the beloved main character

is going to get killed or not.

It's just a great sequence, dramatically, and it's exemplary of the really great writing

that made the show I am vaguely referencing so popular for so very long.

But it's also interesting for our discussion today because there are two points of overlap

with the story that we're looking at here is we're on the seam between Esther 2 and

Esther 3.

Point of overlap number one is obviously the erratic, dangerous king who just sort of makes

willy-nilly decisions and the outsider queen who is there to influence him.

That sounds a lot like Esther, so you got that.

And then also there's a situation where you get the wild reversal in the season finale

of the season I'm talking about where it looks like one outcome is very, very likely,

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