You make some good points about the vocabulary. Obviously, "master" isn't used on screen in these scenes, but would be assumed by many viewers from other genre storytelling. I would never suppose that Lacroix's motivations were one-dimensional.
"Killer Instinct" was clearly trying to "jumpstart" the show after the hiatus, very nearly to "reboot" in today's parlance. I think that makes these two scenes even more parallel than they are sequential, and perhaps an interesting shorthand for some of the differences between the two seasons.
In this particular case, I'm more interested in Nick's word choice than Lacroix's. While the scripts are -- at best -- haphazard in the historical legitimacy of their word choices, I would assert that there is no Nick, from Sir Nicolas de Brabant to Detective Nicholas B. Knight, who would, in any language, era or context, find "slave" anything but a status from which he must rebel, revolt, flee and overthrow the oppressor. I think that Nick's characterization of Lacroix's imposed relationship is very accurately pointed to convey to the audience not just those first nights in 1228, but the persistent baseline of all the nights since.
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"Killer Instinct" was clearly trying to "jumpstart" the show after the hiatus, very nearly to "reboot" in today's parlance. I think that makes these two scenes even more parallel than they are sequential, and perhaps an interesting shorthand for some of the differences between the two seasons.
In this particular case, I'm more interested in Nick's word choice than Lacroix's. While the scripts are -- at best -- haphazard in the historical legitimacy of their word choices, I would assert that there is no Nick, from Sir Nicolas de Brabant to Detective Nicholas B. Knight, who would, in any language, era or context, find "slave" anything but a status from which he must rebel, revolt, flee and overthrow the oppressor. I think that Nick's characterization of Lacroix's imposed relationship is very accurately pointed to convey to the audience not just those first nights in 1228, but the persistent baseline of all the nights since.