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I have heard that JF is considering having a character get diabetes. That could easily be Marigold as poor Edith can never count on being happy for too long. Or maybe Robert. I also think Rose will end up converting although it may be offscreen and only talked about.

Ironically, Bette Davis also starred in a remake of "The Letter" which was the other sound movie Jeanne Eagels did and for which she received a posthumous Oscar nomination. That also had a different ending also due to the Production Code.

Christopher Walken will have to go a long way to compare to the greatest Captain Hook ever, the legendary Cyril Ritchard and so far what I see in the previews isn't helping much.

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The other countries in the Commonwealth have to sign off on it first for it to be official. Apparently some of them are balking because they don't like the way it was done although they support the change. The Fife Dukedom was the last one that passed to a woman back in 1912. She was born to Princess Louise of Wales (later Princess Royal) and The Duke of Fife in 1891 and had a younger sister Maud. When it became apparent that there would be no sons, Queen Victoria basically started over and had the title changed so that either Alexandra or Maud could inherit. Alexandra married Prince Arthur of Connaught who was the only son of HRH The Duke of Connaught. They had one son who died in 1943. The current Duke is James Carnegie, the only son of Maud and The Earl of Southesk. Lady Saltoun, who is the widow of Alexander Ramsay, a greatgrandson of Queen Victoria via her granddaughter Princess Patricia of Connaught (later Lady Patricia Ramsay) also has her title in her own right. Her eldest daughter is the current heiress to the title.

I watched a movie called "My Mother's House" last week and Phoebe Nicholls was in it. She was known as "Sarah Nicholls" then and was about 10 or so. Kevin Doyle is playing "Joseph of Arimathea" in "A.D." which is the sequel to "The Bible."

The Roman lady is Laeta and the woman Gannicus freed is Sybil.

I think this was my favorite episode of the season and I didn't that would be the case when I first read the spoilers. I wasn't thrilled about the Anna storyline getting dragged out but that was about the only thing I didn't like. And actually, I think it's going to be about her acknowledging publicly what happened to her. By "publicly", I don't mean she's going to alert the media, but I do think she is going to tell someone besides the people who are closest to her: Mr. Bates, Lady Mary and Mrs. Hughes. I knew Robert would figure out the truth about Marigold but it was funny that it was that she reminded him of Michael Gregson. Loved Thomas using his skills for good rather than evil.

Another boring Mary plotline? I don't care about Mary and her suitors. Unfortunately the main theme of this show is that Mary is irresistible to men so every other storyline has to be sacrificed to make sure we all know that. Allen Leech is also in "The Imitation Game."

Agron was played by Dan Feuerriegel. Yes, I am inordinately proud that I can spell his name without looking it up. LOL!

In the original airing, many people did not like that Naevia killed Ashur because they thought the idea that she had suddenly become such a good fighter was unrealistic. But she didn't beat him because she was a better fighter, she beat him because he hesitated to gloat and she took her opportunity. Kind of the way he did with Dagan and Oenamaus (back in the Season 1 finale when he asked him to kill him as if he were a gladiator in the arena). As for Mira, I think Spartacus did love her, but he was never going to love her the way he loved Sura and that's what she wanted.

I think Mrs. Drewe's concern isn't so much that Edith wants to take Marigold away, I think it's that she's worried that Edith thinks of her as something to amuse herself with untl something else comes to occupy her mind. Also, I think Cora and Robert's situation with Simon Bricker is probably going to turn out much like Violet and Robert's father and Prince Kuragin. Violet was a pretty young belle when she married Robert's father and was still very attractive in her middle years. Her husband loved her and was very proud of her, but he had started taking her for granted and treating her as a kind of ornament without a brain in her head. Then she meets a man who not only finds her beautiful and desireable but also cares about her opinions. Maybe she doesn't want to have an affair with him, but she loves the way he makes her feel.

This is weird. I DVR'ed it yesterday and watched it last night. Then I went to watch it again this morning, and somehow it had turned into a surfing competion.

Ashur didn't tell Oenamaus that Melitta and Gannicus were originally forced to have sex. Speaking of Ashur's gang, the guy who played Gnaeus is in it. He was also Liam MacIntyre's stunt double. Also, the guy who got his head stomped on in the bar was the same guy who played Caberus who Gannicus slew at the end of GOTA. He was the big guy who got his lower jaw torn off. A lot of people, especially guys, hated the way Naevia was written and played after GOTA. It's almost like they thought the writers would have come up with a completely different storyline for her if Lesley Ann Brandt had stayed.

Actually, he's done a very good job at showing why Bunting is against them: She is a prejudiced intolerant person who hates the aristocracy simply for existing. That's the big difference between her and Branson. Branson hates the class system but he doesn't assume that every upper class person is an awful evil person who wants to keep people down. Also, from reading and hearing JF's interviews, he seems to be more into the idea of the upper classes as Lords and Ladies Bountiful who people went to if they needed help. It's like when the Dowager tried to keep William and Molesley out of conscription or Robert paying off Farmer Drewe's rent debt.

I think we're going to learn that Green was treated badly at pretty much every house that he and Lord Gillingham stayed at and that for some inexplicable reason, someone always wanted to pick a quarrel with him. Amazingly enough, these were almost always male servants who had wives/sweethearts/sisters/daughters, etc. who also worked at the house and who suffered from bad falls while Green was there. Or at least they claimed their injuries were the result of bad falls. IOW, I think the person who killed Green was someone in pretty much the same circumstances as Mr. Bates - someone connected to the victim of one of Green's rapes. It might even be one of his victims.

I remember coming home from school and watching "Where the Action Is."

Does anyone else think the "witness" is going to turn out to be someone from Bates's prison past, like maybe his cellmate?

I thought the scene where Barca congratulated Crixus on making it to the brotherhood was one of the saddest in the entire run of the series.

I thought Batiatus was the best character on the show. When I first started watching it, I kept thinking I'd seen him before. Then I realized he was the guy from the Mummy movies.

I thought they had a good contrast showing how Thomas acted with Jimmy as opposed to Baxter. And now we know Thomas has a sister who was friends with Baxter when they were growing up. I didn't notice it before, but Miss Bunting was also rude to that friend of Rose's.

Oh, I remember those turkey things. They came in beef too. They were great for quick meals. I remember the fried chicken frozen dinner (they still have them, but with different sides) that had the creamed spinach, macaroni and cheese and a vanilla pudding for dessert. They were the best.

Setha Aaron was on last season too and ended up winning.

To me, Barca and Pietros's deaths were the saddest although obviously not the most important. In a way, they each died thinking the other had betrayed him.

There were 13 episodes in "Blood and Sand" so Episode 12 will not be the finale. Of course, it's possible they managed to merge the last two episodes or they are showing both next week.