Three queens, older and wiser since we last saw any of them.
Jillian has successfully lightened her hive up, and has been rooting for Daisy for a while (hard to tell what with, but oh well).
Mary and Aeris both seem so tired that they could be in their 60s instead of their 20s. Mary wants to do something to improve the world before she can talk her personal issues (and I hope that's still possible by the time she's finished). While Aeris has locked herself away, waiting for that day while remembering more innocent times.
On a different note, I wonder how everyone keeps recognizing "Amanda."
Brad wonders that too, but it's pretty simple: Aeris was the one who transformed Brad into Amanda in the first place, so she knows the "before" and "after" well. The original identities of all of the colony members are shared with the new Queen at swarming time, so Jillian would know it too. (Jillian spilled the beans on that on the morning of Willow's coronation.)
Jillian refers to Brad as "Amanda" as a friendly jibe and because that's how they knew each other: a reminder of the good times they'd had together as Bee Girls.
Aeris is a little less charitable in calling Brad by that name: here, it's a reminder of the power she once held over him, and that Amanda is now indelibly a part of his history. Note how Brad doesn't object out loud: he still has the impulse to not dierespect his former Queen.
You're right that Mary and (especially) Aeris seem old here. That's more from depression than any biological reason; Aeris is "retired" and that sense crept into her post-bee-girl form.
Posted by MasterGryph 6 years ago Report
Three queens, older and wiser since we last saw any of them.
Jillian has successfully lightened her hive up, and has been rooting for Daisy for a while (hard to tell what with, but oh well).
Mary and Aeris both seem so tired that they could be in their 60s instead of their 20s. Mary wants to do something to improve the world before she can talk her personal issues (and I hope that's still possible by the time she's finished). While Aeris has locked herself away, waiting for that day while remembering more innocent times.
On a different note, I wonder how everyone keeps recognizing "Amanda."
Posted by dreamweevil 6 years ago Report
Brad wonders that too, but it's pretty simple: Aeris was the one who transformed Brad into Amanda in the first place, so she knows the "before" and "after" well. The original identities of all of the colony members are shared with the new Queen at swarming time, so Jillian would know it too. (Jillian spilled the beans on that on the morning of Willow's coronation.)
Jillian refers to Brad as "Amanda" as a friendly jibe and because that's how they knew each other: a reminder of the good times they'd had together as Bee Girls.
Aeris is a little less charitable in calling Brad by that name: here, it's a reminder of the power she once held over him, and that Amanda is now indelibly a part of his history. Note how Brad doesn't object out loud: he still has the impulse to not dierespect his former Queen.
You're right that Mary and (especially) Aeris seem old here. That's more from depression than any biological reason; Aeris is "retired" and that sense crept into her post-bee-girl form.