diary of an ex-film student

@angel-starbeam

so god damn creative!! yes, yES and YES! i would fucking watching this. i mean i'd watch regardless lol

*the thought of jane x guildford having children. the thirst for season 2 is that much more!!

*if edward had to enter a forced marriage to mary queen of scots, and jane caught wind, she would definitely do some saviour shit and try and rectify that. i wouldnt love turmoils with the gays but edward x fitz's relationship would become that much stronger when they overcome this

*i think the katherine x william eloping storyline will definitely come in later to help out jane and her ethian crusade somehow

*i quite like seeing dominic cooper as a snivelling antagonist, he's so good in it that i almost don't want a redemption arc for him, though in ep8 there was a small smirk for jane's escape...

*like the previous, i loooove seeing mary unhinged its hilarious. i'm ngl im not too familiar with tudor history so i don't know what actually happens to her but i want a revenge plot or like her falling for an ethian or something idk

*Granny Margaret Beaufort and the nuns DEEEEFINITELY want ethians only vibes and are willing to kill for it

*i feel like Alice and the zoo are definitely gonna be a trojan horse thing. like if either jane or edward try and reclaim the throne, they will use the zoo to have an army uprising kinda thing (a la the 100 and the grounders in season 2 if you ever watched that)

*frances x stan, i stan. i think it's so funny. idk how i feel about the children part cuz like sorry frances you're not a great mother but idk this could be her redemption. i also totally know tudor history / royal family is so incestuous that frances x stan & jane x guildford combo wouldn't be an issue but i'm still like anymore permanent engagement from the former pairing other than boinking im not too sure how i would feel about it

Anyway...

* Yes, I was thinking about if they had talked about having kids, especially since it looks like Guildford didn't pull out. Maybe Jane made a Plan B tea or something. Still, I'm thinking that's an epilogue scene where Jane is in labor and barking out orders, Guildford is on his way, everything is in chaos, he goes horse to get to his house faster, kicked down the doors and be at his wife's side and they have their baby.

* Yes, I want Edward and Fitz to get some turmoil going on because they're still in the honeymoon period of the relationship. And Edward is still king, a king that ultimately has no throne, but still a king. And kings have to make hard decisions and make alliances. Also, it turns out that Mary Stuart of Scotland has her own book My Contrary Mary, about her and her own doomed husband Francis - and you know what the books and show says about history and doomed figures...

Basically I'm thinking of a twist (that's not mine, I haven't read the book but I heard things), where Francis is also alive. So I'm thinking chaos but Edward and Mary agree to a non marital alliance.

* Katherine and William eloping was so cute, and I do wonder if they'll meet up and help Jane or Guildford or if William has a safehouse where him and Katherine could stay because he knows that his dad is not someone to be messed with.

* I also enjoy Cooper as a villain. I'm thinking he won't go full redemption but a guy who will try to save his own skin as well as keep his own family safe. Plus, he's a bitter ex.

I am not sure which Seymour he's based on, but I think Lord Seymour is Thomas Seymour, Jane Seymour's brother, and Edward's uncle. He was a scheming opportunistic bastard who groomed Elizabeth as a 13 year old, married Catherine Parr and was trying to control Edward. He was later executed. It looks like they ditched the pedophilia, which I'm more than glad by, but kept the scheming.

Also Catherine Parr is the wife who survived King Henry, but she died after giving birth to a little girl. So where's Catherine Parr's daughter, who's also Lord Seymour's daughter and William's half-sister?

* Oh Tudor history is wild. Mary was Elizabeth's lady in waiting, after years of exile by Henry (worst husband and father), but she did get along with her sister but hated the fact that Elizabeth was Protestant and not a good Catholic like her. I think she was also Jane Grey's godmother?

Anyway, Real Life Mary did marry Phillip, but she got cancer and died. This was especially heartbreaking for her because she thought the tumor in her abdomen was a pregnancy. She always wanted kids. The moniker Bloody Mary did originate from the fact that she executed "heretics" and "traitors to the crown." But at the start of her reign, she had a lot of support because people still loved her mom, were sympathetic to her and wanted her to succeed. Then she married Phillip instead of another much more appropriate guy, and then a famine occurred and then there were no heirs and the executions happened. Her time as queen wasn't great.

I don't know what's going to happen to MLJ Mary Tudor, but we'll see. I just like the idea that even though she is That, once upon a time she was Bess' big sister who loved her. Where did all go wrong? Psst... It's Henry. Henry was the start of darkness.

* I don't know what Granny Margaret and her nuns have in mind but yeah, it looks like it's bloody and not good. Another extremist to match Mary. Which is fitting because she is the oldest Tudor matriarch.

* Yes, an Ethian army inside the castle and they rise up and storm out. Alice leading and seeing her brother Fitz!

Of course, there's the logistics: they would have to find a way to plot it out. Maybe alice uses the key to get in and out, spy around the castle as a cat and ultimately find a way to take the castle from the inside?

* The Francis and Stan thing was mainly a joke, but I do like the idea that he helps the Greys out and bonds with little Margaret. Maybe they'll ultimately decide that a long term relationship isn't in their future - it's not what Francis wants, and yes, she really needs to be a better mother because while she does love her kids and will do anything to protect them, her actions and words hurt them and pushes them away. She has to understand that.

I'm thinking Lord Dudley will also have to learn this, though he kind of fast tracked his way a bit after him and Stan doing the rescue.

*oh maybe they'll borrow some of "my contrary mary" for season 2! i didn't know they did another one in the tudor history world. because i only saw the jane series where the 2nd book after my lady jane is about jane eyre and then calamity jane. i was like oh, are they going to do an anthology series (i hope not, especially when the chemistry is chemistrying)

the most i know about of mary queen of scots is reign ahaha and iirc wasn't elizabeth or bess in this case like gunning for her? idk but i'd be interested to see how bess fits into all of this. she kinda plays both side because she has to but idk

*henry viii was a fucking menace, that much i do know, which is shocking since his parents (from my very limited tudor history knowledge) elizabeth of york and henry vii were like supposedly the only known couple in the royal family to have actually loved each other?

i think it would nice to see a sweeter side of mary. i'd be interested how the writers/ showrunner would treat it because so far even though i love diablogical mary, it's been very one note in the sense that her character is just serving as the antagonist and that's it.

*granny margaret is honestly giving president coin vibes from the hunger games. lesser of two evils but evil nonetheless...