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Man, that Witch's Teat on Anne is a lot more teaty than I remember Mary or Tituba's being! I hope someone will teach her a glamor to shield it before she gets to the wedding night. I wonder if the Countess is planning on getting Anne on her side, since she seems to have such regard for old bloodlines. Otherwise her planned hit on Cotton is going to send Anne right to Mary, and from what Tituba said (and has been saying, and as we know, Tituba's pretty much always right), Anne sounds like she's going to be a very dangerous player soon, if not already. I've been waiting since last episode to see the reveal of Mercy's "great beauty" and was not surprised to find out it's just the old Mercy with longer hair. But then when it turned out that she would be used to lure children, I was delighted. Kudos to the writers for using Elise Eberle's really distinct looks to their advantage. She looks exactly like something evil from a fairy tale. I'm not sure how to describe it...I guess she struck me as exactly what I think the witch from Hansel and Gretel would look like when enticing children into her cottage, before you found old she was old and ugly. This very wholesome appeal, like a china doll, with just a hint of crazy in the eyes to balance it out.

You know, this idea has been ringing in my head for a few days, but I just got it into words. The thing I really really REALLY think Catherine should have said to Francis after the kidnapping was revealed: "Your selfish pig-pigheadedness* and refusal to listen to my experienced advice finally led me to an impossible choice. It was either the false and temporary death of your son or the very real death of my five (?) children and grandson. What choice was I supposed to make?" *Because come on, keeping Conde alive was preposterous. The only reason he lived was Mary's guilt and Francis wanting to please her yet again. Conde's on the loose now and even though I hate the character, I do hope he returns to show just how stupid they were to leave him alive.

Official Preview Clip!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzItpsgDQ1Q

See, what truly bugs me about the 27 people she's killed is that it makes her most infamous murder seem so sloppy in comparison. I mean, Adele and Mr. Flowers at once? That was a thing of beauty. She knows what she's doing, and that would make sense if her first killing was Mom and Pop, and that she learned from that situation. But apparently she's been whacking people since her pre-teens, IIRC. So she couldn't come up with a more reasonable excuse for her father and stepmothers' deaths than "someone came in and killed them"? And she was stupid enough to BBQ her dress where the neighbors could see her? Does not compute.

Screw all these people except Catherine and Elizabeth (eh, and Greer. So proud of myself for calling the Whorebomb she released). I'll be back next season and I want to see nothing but Mary taking blow after blow from the infinitely more brilliant Catherine and the intriguingly nasty Elizabeth.

Not shocked. This season was altogether atrocious.

Eh, maybe Jeremy Gilbert will swing by NOLA on his whirlwind vampire-killing tour and reminisce about Kol with Davina at some point. "Yeah, he pretended to be my best friend for months on Klaus's orders. Later on he strapped me to a table and tried to chop off both my arms. I mean, he only had to take the one, but he was all about being safe than sorry. Although to be fair to him he was actually kind of on the right track about that. Although I still don't think the arm-chopping was necessary!"

Episode Promo:

Inside the Episode! Been a while since we've seen one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3fRzx-gGD0

I smell a timeskip in the next season. The ending was too pat and neatly wrapped up for the time being. I'll be sorry if they switch out the Hope babies, those twins on now are better actors than some of the adult cast. Also, did anyone get a Frozen-homage-feeling with Dahlia and Esther locked in embrace like that? I actually loved the imagery in both (would totally have a figurine of weeping Elsa draped over Anna if I could find one).

While I appreciated the surprise of it, the second I saw that ring I just thought "oh come on, it's just another stall for the next five years". It would be a total Sheldon thing to do -- give her another relationship upgrade on paper but not really go anywhere. And I say this as a diehard Shamy shipper. (I do wish in a way that we had gotten to hear the audience gasp at the ring surprise. I know a lot of people hate having the audience track but I enjoy it somehow, especially when they react to surprises. Monica popping her head out of Chandler's bed and the audience going ballistic is one of my favorite Friends moments. Of course now that I think about it I'll bet anything they filmed the very last part -- with the ring, but after the breakup -- without an audience to prevent spoilers.)

I have to say Tamzin Merchant was won of my biggest draws to this show: I remember her run on The Tudors got a very split reaction, but I loved her Catherine Howard. The scene that really sold me on her as an actress was when she (as Catherine) was introduced to Sarah Bolger's Mary Tudor. Mary is older than Catherine (though Tamzin is older than Sarah), and Catherine is just this hilarious little fidgety wreck. Catherine Howard was a hard role to play because the whole thing with The Tudors was "history, BUT WITH SEX" and you just knew the show was waiting for her to finally arrive, and that they were definitely going to play the Culpeper affair as involving a lot of illicit, kinda kinky sex which historically is possible but unproven. But at that point of the show she was Henry's 5th wife and it was like, "how stupid could you possibly be to cheat on this crazy bastard?" I always felt Tamzin played it perfectly -- as someone deeply naive who couldn't quite take the world around her seriously; silly and uninterested in what she probably thought of as ancient history (that is, Henry's previous string of unfortunate marriages.) Very childlike but with a messed-up view of sex after a neglectful and wild childhood.

Well, this is Mary's last chance to redeem herself, or start. I'm actually a little surprised she didn't gut Conde right there when he drew close. I obviously don't believe for a second that she's pregnant -- they've spent too much of the first half of the season emphasizing her fertility troubles, not to mention Francis's extremely strict warning about her getting pregnant with Conde's child when he gave his "permission". Compared to last year's insanely awesome penultimate episode this one is so lacking. I love to see Francis in a fight; I love even more that vastly outnumbered he still makes Conde look like a weakling. That one-on-one, despite all Conde's threats still had Francis coming out looking like a badass, imo. And now that I think of last year's episode, this is the kid that wrestled Calais away from the English with like four guys. Beware yee who underestimate him. The horse thing was gross but frankly I'm with Catherine. She's been cheated on too much and Narcisse should have left well enough alone. Nice misdirect with the poisoning -- OH! MAYBE SHE GAVE MARY SOME! I'm so hoping that Mary appearing in Conde's tent isn't a single-handed Hail-Mary (please forgive the pun.) Having Francis's support and Catherine's in it would be awesome. And is anyone else expecting something ginormous to come running at Conde's army straight from Greer's whorehouse? Like maybe she's been entertaining a mercenary convention.

NOTE: Reign airs on Wednesdays in Canada, meaning that the episodes are very often viewed a day before they have aired in the US. Therefore please be aware that this thread will almost definitely have spoilers for those who wish to wait until Thursday night to view the new episode. Season Finale!!! US Promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbvQSAHkOCw Canadian Promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxkcH7dmAA I gotta say I know nothing about the actress or how she's going to play her, but I think I may love Elizabeth just from that smirk of hers!

Actually I'm pretty certain Leonard is the middle sibling (his mother refers to his "younger brother Michael" in her first episode), but that doesn't mean he was planned or wanted.

I have to disagree on us not being shown that Klaus loves Hope. Perhaps it's simply Joseph Morgan with those babies, but I cannot think of a single scene with the two characters together (including the closing scene of this episode when he finds her in the car) that doesn't show love just radiating off Klaus. I've hypothesized before that the writers have been deliberately stopping scenes with the two of them because JM's so magical during them. IMO, compared to any other actor on the show, not one person can hold a candle to how much love Klaus displays towards his daughter. My theory is TPTB don't in fact want to show how loving a father Klaus is because he makes Hayley, Elijah, Jackson, etc look less adoring in contrast, and they're supposed to be the ones who think so hard about her that they'd sacrifice anything. But the fact is, Klaus loves that baby and you can see it in every glance he gives her, and he is the one who is truly willing to sacrifice everything, including his loved ones.

I've never had a particular bias for or against Cami -- she's just sort of there, most of the time, but she was the only one who said what I think should have been emphasized more throughout this episode -- there's a huge difference between Elijah or Rebekah being daggered and Klaus being daggered right now. Put down Elijah and all he loses is time, which yeah, sucks, but he's immortal. He'll readjust, he'll be pissed, but he won't lose much. But putting down Klaus for an indeterminate amount of time while he has an infant child is far crueler. That's robbing him of seeing his daughter grow up. So frankly the elements of revenge he carried out against his siblings (killing Gia, setting up Marcel and Rebekah) seem a touch less hypocritical than they normally would be. Not to mention that, big picture considered, his daggering was set off by something that was fairly innocuous, on the grand scale of horrific things Klaus does. So he wouldn't share his plans unless Freya is left out of them? (Freya, who can tap into and read someone's secrets?) So he killed what was essentially a werewolf snitch that turned on him? That's the kind of thing he'd do every other week. If he'd killed Gia or Marcel, maybe, I could understand his siblings losing it and daggering him, devil take the consequences. But the daggering of Klaus by his siblings over Aiden, and during an extremely dangeous point reeked of, "oh hey, we finally can do to Klaus what he's done to us all these times, what's the first excuse we can come up with?"

M3TV, our beloved Canadian TV channel that shows Reign on Wednesdays, has been catching their youtube channel up with a vengeance. I've already posted their promo for episode 21 in that episode's thread, but there are also a series of "Rapid Fire Interviews with the cast: Jonathan Keltz: Megan Follows: Celina Cinden: Adelaide Kane: Toby Regbo: Caitlin Stasey: Anna Popplewell: Torrance Coombs:

If Mary's smart she'll have George's will saying that he leaves everything to his "nephew", which will leave Mary with some of her clout as his guardian. I mean, if the will doesn't outright leave everything to her. She might be able to keep the Sibley seat in the Selectmen warm for Little John, but if she becomes a widow and there's no Sibley heir for the spot, she's SOL. I loved Mary vs. the Countess. For one thing, Lucy Lawless's height and bearing sort of immediately make her more more regal-looking than Mary which is quite a feat considering the authority Mary usually wears. I'm not a big Mary fan so I was glad that after her gross advice to Anne, by the end of the episode that same plan backfired on her -- marry a powerful man and use him, but once he isn't there anymore... On the other hand I do like that Mary seemed to have some compassion for Anne when it came to marrying Hathorne. Clearly she was thinking of her own experiences. Poor Anne. I really hope this spell isn't going to go all The Craft and have Cotton going so insane for her that he loses all reason.

I've been disappointed with the lack of Amy in the last few episodes, but I checked Mayim Bialik's blog and it turns out her father recently passed away, and that he'd been in hospice care for several months before. I suspect the writers have stripped down her role as much as they could so she could have more time with her family.

Regarding Kenna and Bash's annulment: didn't the King of Navarre say all they needed was a judge's approval since the marriage was performed under such duress? They might not need to go to The Pope in their case. Than again, Navarre was full of bullshit, so who knows if he was right? I do seem to remember seeing a documentary about the times that said a marriage had to be agreed to by both parties. Obviously a lot of women felt pressured into accepting, but probably not with a sword at their backs. So possibly the dissolution of their marriage might be something that can be done without going to Rome. Goodness knows there were enough witnesses to testify that the couple was under duress.