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Reign - The CW

Tonight was a mediocre episode. I wasn't really much invested in it. More secret rendezvous between Mary and Conde, although I gotta give them both credit for finally doing it.

"Are you ready, Mary?"

"As ready as I'm going to be."

Bash has been stabbed! Or skewered. Now how does one survive an injury like that? A sword pierces through his midsection. Exsanguination, internal hemorrhaging. This is just like Oliver Queen getting stabbed with a sword by Ra's al Ghul and plunging hundreds of feet down a mountain.
 
Are you pretending to be an advertisement, you recap, it's what you do, or did you really not notice that witch transferring life energy from Francis to Bash?

"I was born ready" would have been more Rock'n'Roll, while staying in tone with manifest destiny, since god told her bloodline that they alone were born to rule quite a while back.
 
Guy Gardener said:
Are you pretending to be an advertisement, you recap, it's what you do, or did you really not notice that witch transferring life energy from Francis to Bash?

"I was born ready" would have been more Rock'n'Roll, while staying in tone with manifest destiny, since god told her bloodline that they alone were born to rule quite a while back.
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What? Did I miss a scene. I know nothing about a witch life energy.
 
Last week he investigated a nun that was "laying on hands" who saved one boy at the expense of his brothers who were maybe blinded, and after the fact the mother was pissed that she made that deal. That nun last week was the same woman looking after him this week, who had recovered him: "I'm not a nun".

She asked if he wanted to be saved magically, or die. Bash knew that there was going to be a cost. That some one had to die or be maimed, a cosmic balance, for him to live. At that moment, he didn't care. "Nobody says no" is what she said as she began to heal him with magic... Which is exactly when Francis got sick.
 
I remember now. In MMORPG, that's usually referred to as Siphon Life or Dark Healing.

If Francis dies, then at least that would be consistent with historical events.
 
No, they'll just kill the witch and every one will be fine.

Everyone will be fine or Bash will die.

This show is not called Mary Queen of Scotts.

It's called Reign.

If historically Mary has to go back to Britain and be under house arrest for the rest of her life, surely it makes more sense to fire Adelaide, maybe bring her back every now and then for a flash back, but let the Queen leave and then continue telling the story of every one else still living in French Court.

Maybe they warned Adelaide that this was the plan going in?

"You have 2 years. Make the most of them."

(wikiwiki)

I thought Francis was going to have an ever hotter new wife that we could obsess on about how elegant her gowns were/are/will be.

Francis does not remarry, and he is succeeded by his brother in... Oh!

This is when he died in real life.

Narcisse said "Ear infection" the other day and wikipedia says that what Francis died from what was thought to be possibly an ear infection in 1560.

Well.

We are at a cross roads.

Either Francis dies, and Mary goes home, next week, depending on how long it takes Frank to die (5 more episodes this season ending on May 14), maybe the week after... Scotland belongs to France if Mary does not produce a child.

The French may want an heir, but they probably want Scotland more. I was imagining one of Catherine's henchmen holding a knife to Mary's throat forcing her to rape Francis until she was pregnant or he was dead.

But if it's a question of who get's Scotland?

Mary just has to strut into his bedchambers once or twice on the record, and then she only needs to create the illusion of sex to those listening at the door, and then later do it with Conde 40 times in 3 days.

Or...

We enter into an alternate universe where Francis does not die and Mary does not leave.

Oh.

What about a timejump?

Skip a head a decade to when King Charles is a studly 16 (played by a 23 year old).

And then the rest of the cast can finally play their real age, rather than pretending to be children.

Glee fucked up so bad when it tried to simultaneously tell stories in New York with the graduates, as well as stories with the new class back in Lima Ohio. It wasn't awful, but it was still too diffused and unwieldy.

Fire Kane.

Fire Regbo

Clean break.
 
Guy Gardener said:
If historically Mary has to go back to Britain and be under house arrest for the rest of her life, surely it makes more sense to fire Adelaide, maybe bring her back every now and then for a flash back, but let the Queen leave and then continue telling the story of every one else still living in French Court.
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Historically, Mary spends about a year in France after Francis' death before she returns to Scotland. She then spends several years single until she marries her first cousin (the father of James VI), and then two years after that she abdicates and flees to England, where she's in captivity for eighteen years.

So, if we're in 1560 now (which is when Francis dies), she returns to Scotland in the summer of 1561, marries Henry Stuart in 1565, abdicates in 1567, and is executed in 1587.

In other words, Mary isn't going straight from the French court to being Elizabeth's prisoner.
 
If Bash lives... Kenna is queen of France?

Mary decided who her king was going to be, and Francis has more brothers, one of who is supposed to be King. Bash's newly found legitimacy wasn't cancelled out, just the line of succession was jiggled per the Queen of Scotland's preference in the face of prophecy.
 
New episode tonight, but pretty uneventful, with everything hanging on "if" Francis dies. Mary is determined to protect her native Scotland while she's Acting King, but at what cost to France?
 
Looks like Conde's marriage (by proxy) to Elizabeth was short- lived. Someone successfully undid it by killing the clergy and Elizabeth's friend and destroying all records of their union. Neither Catherine nor Narcisse would admit if either one of them was responsible, so whose doing was it?

Mercenaries under General Renaude, a friend of Lord Narcisse's, came sweeping down and saved the day by liberating the children hostages from the Protestant extremists. They also planted dead bodies that would paint Conde as a traitor. And all this was part of Narcisse's sinister plan to prove his worth to the royalty, or whatever motives he might have.
 
He wants Cathrine in power... Although that's unlikely to happen if he is directly connected to Francis's death. But if Catherine is Regent to her 10 year old, that's tens years worth of a regency that he can exploit.

"We are all fallen Women"

I was looking at the three of them all covered up, and still being lovely an thinking how far that Men have come that we can see through clothing like Superman, a thought that echoed again a couple hours later watching The Mysteries of Laura.
 
I think I would just watch a spin off of Greer and her brothel. :lol: It would have to include Kenna & Claude.
 
i haven't enjoyed it as much as season 1. Mary has become very unlikable IMO.
 
Is Mary really pregnant with Conde's child? At first I thought she was just trying to distract Conde so he wouldn't attack the French royalty in the castle.

But that would be contradictory to what Mary confessed: that she feared for her life if she were to stay with Francis. Her infidelity would eventually be exposed to everyone.
 
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It doth appear that Mary still loves Francis. She went through great lengths to save Francis and everyone in the castle from Conde's army, by feigning her pregnancy and wreaking chaos amongst the soldiers with a false plague, deceiving Conde and putting a knife in him.

But Catherine - is there no end to her malevolence and deviousness? She had Lola and her child abducted in an attempt to frame Conde for their apparent death, but Lord Narcisse uncovered the truth and exposed the Queen Mother, who was soon stripped of her wealth and title and banished forthwith from the kingdom under pain of death (see what I did there?). Now she's allied herself with Elizabeth to seek vengeance on Mary.
 
FWIW, the third season starts tonight.

I bailed on the series early in the second season, but I'll give it a shot tonight since the trailer looks interesting.
 
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Greer is back?? I am forgetting things. (still watching.)

Rachel (From Lost Girl/Birds of Prey) looks/acts like a completely different person, more woman than girl, but then I suppose she's glad not to be cast as a teenager for once finally. :)

The outside shots are superb. :) Does that mean that thye have more money this season, or this episode?

Castration is usually hilarious. Still true.

Catherine and Elizabeth: "Rock on!" please tell me that we get some considerable time together for the rest of the year because they are a relentless pair of rutting monsters worth of schemes!

I love these costumes.

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NOOOOO!

They really got heir money out of that tiger.

Were there camera tricks, or are Actors lives in Canada practically valueless?
 
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It was CGI!!! :eek: I am sure there were tricks & a double. Cute tiger though. ;)

How old is Charles suppose to be?
 
Claude last year was 12 and sleeping with 40 year old men.

Charles is not attractive enough to be on a show this sexy, even if he's not jail bait.

This is interesting...

Historically, Mary's four Ladies-In-Waiting were all named "Mary".
  • Mary Fleming
  • Mary Seton
  • Mary Beaton
  • Mary Livingston
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Wait? Kenna is gone for good? NOOOOOOO!

(I loved her the most.)
 
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