Rhondinella April 9, 2014 Share April 9, 2014 When Mary learns of a secret clause in her marriage contract that her mother, Marie de Guise and Queen Catherine orchestrated, Mary and Francis embark on a dangerous plan to turn Scotland against her mother – and Mary gets her first taste of power as the Queen of Scots. Airs April 10, 2014 Link to comment
crackercrumbs April 11, 2014 Share April 11, 2014 Ooh, shit went down tonight! I am enjoying Bash and whatshername. Love the intrigue between Mary and Queen of France. I enjoyed the queen's dalliance and I like that she didn't wallop the Scottish guy who didn't know who she was. Good solid episode overall. Link to comment
NorthstarATL April 11, 2014 Share April 11, 2014 Kenna: You must think I'm the most selfish woman in Paris. Bash: I haven't met all of the women in Paris. I think I might actually enjoy them! Mary was even in fine form tonight, acting all Queenly, and then upestting Catherine right when Catherine thought she'd scored a victory! AND scaring poor Francis with the fact that he's married someone with just almost his mother's ability to put everything aside for her country! Of course, the costuming was laughable as always! And we met one of Catherine's LIW! The budget must have increased! (Though I was afraid that the whores the Scots were with would turn out to be, in fact, Catherine's other LIWs, as that is how the one described their duties.) 1 Link to comment
Allie56 April 11, 2014 Share April 11, 2014 Oh, Francis. He's in over his head, but it was sort of gross and adorable how much he was in love with Uber-Mary, the queen with a plan. I like the dynamic between Kenna and Bash. In generally, I'm enjoying the dynamics between people who get thrown together and try to make the best of it - Kenna and Bash, Greer and Lord Peppercorn. I don't like Lola and Lord Julien because I simply can't believe he, or many other noblemen, would be willing to marry a pregnant woman he's just met. If we start a thread on Bash, it simply must reference Henry's statement that Bash is "the master of . . . of two amusing things." I liked meeting Catherine's lady-in-waiting, and to see that she trains them so well that they become as cunning and cutthroat as their mistress. I thought that her calling the ladies "the flying squad" sounded like an anachronism, but a quick Google search seems to indicate that they really were called the flying squad. I was happy to be pagan-less, but less happy to be without Nostradamus and his smolder. 2 Link to comment
Kara April 12, 2014 Share April 12, 2014 I am confused. Happens to me a lot with this show, because I usually just listen and have my eyes doing something else, so I often get characters mixed up. But anyway, isn't the guy that wants to marry Lola, despite her pregnancy, the same guy that last episode refused to marry Greer because she was caught with the kitchen boy and he didn't want the scandal? Our am I getting characters confused again? Wouldn't this be an even bigger scandal if it was discovered she was carrying the king to be's illigitimate child? And didn't he, just a few minutes before saying that he still wants to marry her despite the pregnancy, say that he didn't want children because two previous wives died in child birth and he didn't want to lose another wife this way? Wouldn't death by childbirth still be a possibility, even if the child isn't biologically his? This guy seems a little inconsistent to me. Is Lola so fab that he would risk major scandal and losing her in childbirth, two things that were no gos just a short while before? 3 Link to comment
Idiot Boxer April 12, 2014 Share April 12, 2014 Yeah, it certainly seems like something is up with Lord Julian. Remember how he basicslly said, "I won't ask you about your past if you don't ask me about mine..."? That must be a clue as to why he would rebuff Greer yet embrace Lola. If he didn't want gossip surrounding his marriage, certainly going for a woman who's going to give birth 5-6 months after the wedding isn't the way to achieve that. 1 Link to comment
Rhondinella April 13, 2014 Author Share April 13, 2014 Yeah, Bash and Kenna are the young version of Henry and Catherine. Not quite as good at insulting each other yet, but they'll get there with time. I agree about the Lord Julian thing. I spent the ep thinking that must have been a different guy than the one who rebuffed Greer cause it didn't make any sense otherwise. Turns out I was wrong and right at the same time. I miss Lord Peppercorn, the best-nicknamed character on TV. Maybe he went to hang out with the Onion Knight in Westeros? Link to comment
NorthstarATL April 13, 2014 Share April 13, 2014 Wouldn't death by childbirth still be a possibility, even if the child isn't biologically his? Death in childbirth was probably pretty common back then, but if Lola DID die, then Julian would not feel the same pain/guilt, having had nothing to do with her pregnancy. Link to comment
atomationage May 9, 2014 Share May 9, 2014 they really were called the flying squad. In London in the 70s, Scotland yard had a Flying Squad. Since that rhymes with Sweeney Todd, they were referred to as The Sweeney, and there was a police drama by that name. Link to comment
edra May 11, 2014 Share May 11, 2014 I really want to like this show, even with all its flaws, but the Mary character is so annoying. How does one get past a show, when the lead is the worst character and the actress playing the role is one of the weakest actors. The scene where she supposedly gives this impassioned speech that motivates her countrymen was so ridiculous, and made worse, by the awful, tight monstrosity of a gown she was wearing in that scene, and the camera angle that kept panning to her derriere. Link to comment
Rhondinella May 12, 2014 Author Share May 12, 2014 I'm just tired of her only being given one note to play. The upright and virtuous are always so boring to watch. Which is why I love Henry so much. Link to comment
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