He knows who’s ultimately responsible for what happened, and that’s who he wants to hurt.Īlso Read: 'Marco Polo' Fact Check: Did the Pope Really Send Crusaders Against Kublai Khan? He spends years, maybe decades scheming to overthrow the Khan. Ahmad, I think, handles it pretty well - sure, he immediately murders his mom (he probably considered it mercy), but from there he doesn’t go on some snap rampage. It’s hard to say exactly how most people would handle going through that sort of impossible scenario, but I would assume few of us would come out the other side normal.
All because of the carnage the Mongols had wrought when they conquered his home.
This woman that he’d just slept with was his own mother. Ahmad, of course, knew the tune because his mother wrote it for him. The woman says she wrote the tune herself, for her son. And then she starts humming a distinct tune, one Ahmad knows. She was brought in for consideration as one of the Khan’s concubines, but they passed on her and sold her to this brothel. They have sex, and this woman tells the story of how she came to be where she was: the Mongols had sacked her town, and killed her husband and son.
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And this madame happens to have on hand a woman whose skin tone matches Ahmad’s own.Īlso Read: 33 Major 'Marco Polo' Characters, Ranked (Photos) So he travels around doing that for a while, and we see that one day a brothel madame claims to be unable to pay, offering him the pleasures of the flesh as an alternative. But Ahmad says he isn’t prepared for that responsibility yet, and wants to work as a tax collector for a while to get a feel for the empire and its people. Years later, after Ahmad is grown, Kublai offers him the position he holds in the present, financial adviser for his empire. He himself survived and thrived in the aftermath when he was adopted by Kublai and Empress Chabi. We learn that Ahmad was a young boy when the Mongols sacked his town and apparently killed his mother. The reveal of Ahmad’s motivation for wanting to take down Kublai midway through the season is a pretty great demonstration of how the character physics, and the perspectives, of “Marco Polo” work. And somehow, for a brief moment, those winds brought them together on the other side of a game of chess from Kublai. In essence, these characters were taken for a ride by the metaphorical winds of human interaction. What’s changed?Īlso Read: 'Marco Polo': Who Is the Mythical Christian Warrior Prester John? They were themselves supporting protagonists. Nearly all of Kublai’s enemies here are friends and family.Īnd in the case of Ahmad, Kaidu and Nayan, it’s people who not only are family - but people who were apparently on his side a season ago. Season 2 doesn’t have a Jia Sidao - a clear and present external opposing force who’s just a complete asshole. If Kublai is the good guy, then the bad guys of season 2 are legion: Ahmad, Kaidu, Nayan, Niccolo Polo, the Pope, and more.īut I don’t think that’s how “Marco Polo” works these days. I’ll just tell you it’s called that more because of Marco Polo’s book than the man himself.) (Don’t bother reminding me what the name of the show is. If “Marco Polo” has a protagonist at this point - and I’m not saying it does - then it’s probably Kublai Khan. (Spoilers for Marco Polo season 2 below.)
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