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  1. Hilarious episode, I loved it actually. Poor Clare Claremont, the script attempts to give her some agency, but IRL, she was pretty much a gushing Byron groupie with not a wit of common sense---she let Byron take their daughter who he packed off to a convent school where the poor little thing died. I thought that Shelly took the premonition of his death pretty well eh? And yes, I sort of assume Yaz is crushing on the Doctor? funny after the last 2 young romantic doctors who did have "romances" of a type the show runners have kept Jodie's doctor as pretty sexless, so I was surprised that they had Bryon hit on her, and then Yaz's cryptic comment.

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  2. 1 minute ago, libgirl2 said:

    Oh and John Barrowman still looks so young because of CGI. He looks good in real life but like all of us he has aged.

    Damn I keep forgetting that they now have de-aging CGI capability, LOL, oh if only I could use it IRL!

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  3. Loved it, more adult than the first new episodes this season (several people died!) not overtly political (like that dreadful second episode) and I adored the fierce black Doctor, got a kick out of Walsh--Barrowman kiss. I happen to be a fan of the episodes that move me emotionally organically and this one did, Ruth's bittersweet memory of her childhood (that it was not real did not diminish the fact that it touched me.) Jodie was very good as usual.

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  4. That kiss between Asriel and Marisa was swoon worthy! For one thing I just love Ruth Wilson as an actor, I didn't see the movie, but I can't imagine that Nicole Kidman played the character any better.

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  5. Excellent episode and I for one think that combining elements of the first and second books was a good idea. The Roger death scene was heartbreaking and Dafne Keen was terrific in it. I can't wait for the next series!

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  6. Loved the episode but I am such a wuss that I looked away during the CGI bear fight, LOL. The Seattle Goodwill had a stuffed Polar Bear that someone shot 100 years ago in a glass case on display, the bear was shown on it's haunches and man, it is hard to conceptualize how enormous these bears are, this one stood about 12 feet---it was huge!

    One thing that sort of bugs me is that Daphne looks nothing like the people cast as her parents, both of whom have blue eyes (statistically it is unlikely that parents with blue eyes would have a brown eyed child, I think that Andrew Scott should have played Asriel because he looks like Daphne could be his daughter--yeah I am anal.)

    Ruth Wilson continues to kill it as Mrs, Coulter IMO, she was terrific and terrifying in this episode. 

    I haven't read the books but I have listened partly to the audio versions of the next 2 novels so I pretty much know what is coming, but it doesn't spoil my enjoyment of the series at all I find, in fact I am looking forward to how the series handles the next 2 books.

    I will miss this show until series 2 premieres next year. 

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  7. Great episode, I thought that Wilson did a particularly wonderful job expressing the golden thread that binds a mother to a child even if she has given up that child as in this case, and Daphne screaming Mother! was perfection.

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  8. Wait a minute I thought that they were going to time jump the final season? at any rate, they are bringing in new plot lines that will have to be resolved in some way. Jack Farthing was touching as George in his intense grief, good start for the last season I think.

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  9. re Princess Louise, wasn't she considered the beauty of the girls? The rumor was that she had a passionate love affair with an artist, and I think that most certainly her husband was gay, but that gave her the freedom to pursue her art instead of being constantly pregnant. As for the business of Victoria saving the Duchess from the loony bin our Vickie is turning out to be a real Mary Sue eh?

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  10. 10 hours ago, buttersister said:

    Albert and the Vick looked like they were going to make the next baby, then Albert collapsed, unconscious.

    That was preposterous, sorry but I laughed my ass off, WTF? I understand that Albert's health had been precarious for some time before he died, but this fainting just before sexy time, where in the hell did DG pull that out of? As for the Duchess and the Hunk, please can this be over now? I guess that ship taking Joe and hopefully the Duchess off to America couldn't be the Titanic eh?

    I can't even with the fictional fly in the ointment, Feo, and the daughter that little Bertie (the future creeper par excellence so much so that he was nicknamed "Edward the Caressor") inexplicably is in love with.

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  11. 2 hours ago, Pickles said:

    Why is the Sophie and the servant affair a storyline? I don’t care about either of them. He is totally unappealing. Just like a giant hulk. She is dim

    YES! I don't even understand the casting of that Dude to play the footman (I guess most footmen had to be tall? he exudes zero chemistry.) This episode was particularly ridiculous IMO, and the footman and the Duchess screwing in various places in the palace? yeah I believe that, hahaha.

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  12. On 2/22/2019 at 7:37 PM, LilWharveyGal said:

    LOL, I'm with y'all.  And if someone had told me during Pillars Of The Earth or The Borgias that someday I'd actually hope for a David Oakes appearance, I'd have laughed my head off.

    I never watched any show he has been in before, but I was re-watching a Henry 8 BBC doc tonight from 2009 in which he appears as Cardinal Wolsey's secretary, and DAMN has he grown into one fine man--cute as a guy in his 20's, I wouldn't give him a second look, but as Ernst and with that adorable German accent, hubba hubba, LOL. 

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  13. 11 hours ago, Westiepeach said:

    was just coming on here to say that! It does look like she is pregnant. No announcement, though.

    She sure looked pregnant to me, and she was born in 1981, so perhaps her biological clock is ticking?

  14. 25 minutes ago, Kohola3 said:

    And weren't footmen pretty much assigned to one area of the house for certain duties.  This dude is all over the damned place.

    Not only all over the place but always creeping on the Duchess in PUBLIC it is ludicrous. 

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  15. 3 minutes ago, Zella said:

    Besides, Joseph is a terrible employee on many levels.

    Clearly he is no Owen Tudor, haha. 

    As for Goodwin's projections about Victoria my eyes are spinning out of my head, she loved Albert for obvious reasons--at first because of his physical beauty which always attracted Victoria--so much that she judged her own children harshly in that respect, and second precisely because Albert was a serious man verging on being a tyrant, it is clear that this sort of thing turned Victoria on, she liked the fights and the make up sex, Albert was the father figure she never had.

    As for Feo and the whole George 4 thing there are no words, he was a gross old man who probably couldn't have gotten it up at the end of his life, where Godwin picked this story-line out of who knows, probably her backside.

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  16. 2 hours ago, Calvada said:

    If this is 1850, shouldn't Albert be planning the Great Exhibition of 1851?  Isn't that considered one of his greatest accomplishments?  Wouldn't that perk him up a bit, get him out of the doldrums he seems mired in? 

    yes that was the greatest triumph of his life and pretty much finally endeared him to the British people. Anyway I still think that if DG wants me to like the sexy time between the Duchess and Joe boy he needs to ditch the itchy gray rug! (I must have sleep through the swimming clip, what with the blurred out bottom and all.)

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