Reply To: What did you think of A World of Curiosities and why?
I did struggle just a bit with the recognition thing, too, especially when Armand got his radar up and checked out everybody, including Mongeau. He knew it was a possibility. I do understand that he was supposed to be blinded by seeing what he expected to see (what was supposed to be genuine love between that man and his wife) but I still felt that he, being who he is, might have seen past it. But love is indeed his blind spot. The time when I really thought he’d see through it was when he brought Fleming into his home— he helped the man get ready for bed, and would have seen the height difference without the lifts, and both he and Jean Guy were apparently checking the guy’s pupils— even with good contacts, I would have thought they might have noticed those. Especially, I suppose, Jean Guy, since he is naturally a more suspicious person (except where Sam is concerned) and both he and Armand were on heightened alert. But I can also see it getting past them both, as they were so stressed and had so much going on and just trusted this guy and assumed it had to be one of the other unknowns. They exhibited human fallibility, which came back to bite them, unfortunately.