Elizabeth is a self-preservationist! Her actions here are how she makes it to the throne. Elizabeth isn’t helping him with this until Dudley says one of them has to be guilty. I cannot get over this fact.ĭudley tries to draw a line from Thomas wanting to marry Elizabeth to Thomas trying to kidnap the king. Kat didn’t confess to anything that incriminates Elizabeth, but she shared details of Thomas’s improprieties, like when he cut up Elizabeth’s dress while Catherine held her. Elizabeth is very set on not giving anything away, but Kat Ashley has spilled at least some of the beans (she’s in a cell! With so many rats!). Dudley calls it “a battle of wills,” and am I not supposed to think of The Princess Bride? I know that’s “wits,” but they sound similar, so it counts. Thomas won’t speak to anyone, pulling a Bartleby “I would prefer not to,” and John Dudley visits Elizabeth to interview her and arrive at some version of the truth. Thomas is a prisoner, and Elizabeth is under house arrest. Someone must stop Edward, and that someone is an unknown disease. He orders that his falcon be skinned alive because it reminds him of what’s being done to him? Which does not make sense? You hear bird screams. Always making terrible choices and then being defended by nineteenth-century German poets.Įdward is angry because the people are rebelling and his uncle tried to kidnap him. I would read one where Mary, Queen of Scots, becomes queen of England because it’d be her being like, “Is this how you run a country?” and everyone would say, “No!” and then she’d keep doing it. What would have happened!! I don’t know and I don’t want anyone to write a hypothetical novel about it. So let’s look at Elizabeth being on trial (unofficially), Thomas losing his head, Somerset losing his position, and Robin Dudley meeting Amy Robsart.īut what of our Boy King? Edward is a teeny tyrant, and I am glad he doesn’t hold the throne for long. This quick change in the position of Lord Protector could have become extremely confusing, but it was not. John Dudley is the hale and hearty friend of Somerset, who has the romantic son and the ineffectual son (poor Guildford). Bishop Gardiner is that Catholic guy who’s on Mary’s side, but more so on Catholicism’s side. Everyone’s personality and appearance are very different and have noticeable qualities. It’s easy for executive branch–level histories to get bogged down in details, characters, bureaucracy, and alliances, and this show does an excellent job of keeping it simple and straightforward, despite a large cast. While I harbor some distaste for how they have portrayed Thomas and Elizabeth’s relationship (does it need to seem so romantic when he probably just wanted power and she is a child?), I’m enjoying this nuanced portrayal of Edward Seymour, the Lord Protector. Now we’re whiskin’! Everything’s happening at a fast clip and we are zooming on through the fall of the Seymours.
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