did the thing imo crown does best, weaving two time periods together
For me the other thing The Crown does best is telling me things about British history, and specifically the monarchy, that I didn't already know. The only episode in the last two seasons that did that was the one about Mohamed al-Fayed.
― trishyb, Monday, 22 January 2024 09:12 (four months ago) link
tired: queen as a child tricked* into a nazi salutewired: queen as an old lady tricked into wearing nu-metal shorts
this gives me a handy bar for the remainder of this show to fall below, at last i can start watching s5 & then s6
*it's why she hates her uncle, bcz either it's a public shame (shows her as she isn't) or a public revelation (shows her as she actually is)** **either way is an unwanted obstacle
― mark s, Monday, 22 January 2024 10:56 (four months ago) link
yeah the second half of the final season was completely limp and pointless, but I think that may simply be because I remember all of it happening in real time
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:35 (four months ago) link
yeah i think thats true also
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 22 January 2024 15:40 (four months ago) link
ok well into deathmarch to the end of s6 still such a boring slogafter everything they did w the first 4 seasons its like they were just, fuckit we’ve go nothing here’s diana staring up under her fringe for 20 hours like no history detours really at all except the mohammed fayed ep in s5 the speculative fiction of dodi & diana’s final hours together was a bit much for me, i mean maybe that is what happened idki’m only on ep5 cannot even begin to imagine the depths of boredom yet to be excavated here weeeee zzzz
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 January 2024 02:23 (four months ago) link
The William & Catherine and William & Harry stuff is yes, even more boring. The Princess Margaret episode was good though.
― nate woolls, Monday, 29 January 2024 02:55 (four months ago) link
good to know thx
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 January 2024 03:04 (four months ago) link
the speculative fiction of dodi & diana’s final hours together was a bit much for me, i mean maybe that is what happened idk
ya this was bad, also there's an entirely made up plotline about how Kate's mother basically engineered her daughter and William getting together from even before their time at St Andrews. i mean sure, this show is fictionalised, but that whole arc seemed unnecessarily mean-spirited
didn't even distract from how boring the whole season was, it was def a struggle to finish
― Roz, Monday, 29 January 2024 08:05 (four months ago) link
yeah they really struggle to make the second half of S6 interesting. just little there work with, I suppose. I preferred the Diana episodes even if I knew a lot of the story
― Vinnie, Monday, 29 January 2024 19:33 (four months ago) link
this back half feels so speculative as to beggar belief, like beyond fictionalizing and into “we have now decided to just invent new characters we are calling The Royals”Charles going off into the scottish highlands to wail abt Dianas death seemed insanely fabulist, like ok what are we actually doing here and ghost Dianas convo w the queenlmao ok whut
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 January 2024 20:44 (four months ago) link
wait this sounds good tho, all historical reconstruction should include ghosts, cf hamlet etc
― mark s, Monday, 29 January 2024 20:47 (four months ago) link
to affirm my claim i found a fine portrait of the real actual historical hamlet aka "amblett"
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Amblett_Hamlet.jpg/800px-Amblett_Hamlet.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 29 January 2024 20:50 (four months ago) link
FWIW the ghosts didn't bother me nearly as much as the boring shit
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:34 (four months ago) link
true, the boring shit is definitely the worst aspect
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 29 January 2024 22:54 (four months ago) link
fiiiiiinallly finished this trudge through the treacle of s6high point: really liked the episode about Margaret, thought it showed their relationship as sisters quite nicely. i didn’t know she had burned her feet, v awful i liked all the scenes btw William & the Queen, they have good chemistry in their scenes togethercamilla puffing on a cig while tending to the tomato plants was v good harry’s nazi uniform moment lol ugh the rest of it was decidedly boring/mid and i am glad its over should have stopped at s4 tbh
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 February 2024 01:29 (three months ago) link
OH and the penitence prayer scene for Chuck & Camilla was pretty great imo
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 February 2024 01:38 (three months ago) link