Mary: "We are still family. And what is family in this dark and bitter world, but a glimmer of light in the distance?"The sound you’re hearing right now is me rolling my eyes….
I can not believe this was a penultimate episode….
Baby James is born. Check.
Elizabeth’s finally done with all this marriage nonsense. Check.
Darnley is heading full speed in his somewhat historically accurate and
well deserved demise. Check.
That’s about it. With only one episode left I doubt we ever see Mary's life
with Bothwell, her years of imprisonment, abdication in favour of her son, her
fight for her rightful place as a queen and quite remarkable and
interesting relations with Elizabeth, her later plot against Elizabeth and consequent
trial and execution. There is simply not enough time. I’m flashing back to my
article Reign: Before the final season and starting to think that they will end on some
possibly positive note. Unless the finale will be 3 hours long and we jump
twenty something years forward….
Sigh…
Okey, now, that I got my historical ranting out of the way, let’s talk
the episode…
Nothing new really happened in France. Charles is still as naive
and in love as thirteen years old and Henry is still trying to grab any chance
to be king. Oh, yeah Leesa was back. I did not miss her, but what a joy it was to
see her behind bars. What else? Oh, right – Catherine plotted the murder of
Nicole. No surprise here, but her approach was rather strange. Since when the
book of spells and imprisoned witch became the means of last resort for
Catherine de Medici? And I am still amazed at how high a poor peasant girl managed to climb.
I mean, I understand her being King’s mistress, but a Queen of France? Come on!
Even Charles should not have been that stupid. Also, what is all this fuss
about? She isn’t even that pretty and more conniving than intelligent…. Oh,
well….
We got the confirmation (not that we needed one) that Jane was working
for Narcisse and she indeed was the one who poisoned Gideon. And apparently
Narcisse isn’t done yet. Elizabeth
loosing the love of her life is the price not high enough for executing Lola.
It will cost her marriage and plunge her country in war with Austria and Spain. What a gruesome plan to
shake the world picture and all it took a grieving husband and a maid. If Elizabeth wasn’t blinded
with grief she would’ve realized it sooner.
Historical bits
Archduke of Austria
was a serious contender for Elizabeth’s hand, and then relations
with the Habsburgs had deteriorated. Yep, that is pretty much what happened in
the episode.
It has been speculated that Darnley
was recovering from syphilis, albeit the official version stated smallpox.
Francis Drake was second-in-command
of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. Twenty-two years after the events of this
episode; I am basing my calculations on James’ date of birth. Nice touch for him
to be responsible for aggravating the situation that played out here.
Some observations
The
annulment of Claude’s marriage to Luc was, well, annulled. Charles put a pause
on that one. Like I said in the previous review – one step forward two
steps back.
Luc let Claude go... He is a very decent man. Are we sure he’s Narcisse’ son?
Leith is
marrying another. That was rather quick…
Mary and Bothwell’s 'we will – we won’t' back and forth has become
tiresome to watch. Make up your mind, lovely couple, because I’m loosing
interest.
Wardrobe department
The “Best Dress of the week”
Award goes to Greer.
The wardrobe choices made
for her were always horrible at best. This one was lovely.
The “Worst Dress of the
week” Award goes also to Greer.
I know, they are very
frivolous with hair and dresses… but what on earth was that?
Memorable Quotes:
Charles: “Nicole
loves me as I love her. She's the only person I've ever been able to count on in
the world. God knows what Henri's doing to Nicole against her will as we speak.”
I laughed so hard I scared my dog.
I laughed so hard I scared my dog.
Francis
Drake: “Everyone who walks through these doors wants something from you. If
they say otherwise, they're lying.”
Mary: "I've been seeing it all wrong. The danger is not in us being close. It's in our being apart. My enemies are going to gossip and lie about me no matter what I do. As far as I'm concerned, they can all go to hell. I going to spend the rest of my life with the ones I love."
Finally
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