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Deputy Irina A. Carter

Okay so I made a little review in this ask  by the lovely @juliacaesaris​ 😍 but I will put some more extense thoughts behind the cut:

So the few good things first:

I liked that you can Imagine Jenna Coleman in costume which was the thing that got through the book really.

I liked Skerret she didn’t appear much but it was nice to have her in the background.

Some Albert moments when we could actually see how much his parent’s divorce affected him and his view and relationships. That was actually not so bad:

“Perhaps. But it is not so simple. Tonight, yes, I felt that we could understand each other, but she is so … so fickle, as the English say. I am not the only person she likes.” Ernst held his brother at arm’s length and said with uncharacteristic seriousness, “You have nothing to fear, Albert. Victoria is not like Mama.” Albert turned away. “I hope you are right.”

I wanted to hug him so much, and I love how Ernst is such a good brother. Those moments were nice.

The vicbert parts were so great! surprisingly the were not that horrible and were cute. The last Vicbert scene was really nice, cute and romantic, another thing that made it all worthy.

Now the bad things 

The v**bourne plot I just skipped the first time because I knew it was going to be horrible but holly shit that was still DISAPPOINTED.

Because first I couldn’t shake out the feeling that most of it it was Victoria kind of having daddy issues, and it was kind of gross. Then it involves a plot in which he buys a teenage prostitute because he wanted to fantasize about Victoria because he being so “dutiful” couldn’t really be with her, but even grosser when I learned from one of my mutuals that Daisy named the prostitute after her daughter. I’m not saying that that was a self-insert… but yeah that is exactly what I say.

We don’t speak much about the fact that Victoria always needed a father figure and that romanticizing someone that much older than her, really speaks volumes about that need of a father figure. She even starts her proposal with and I quote:

“At the beginning I thought that you were the father that I never had…”

I found really hard to ship people with this kind of dialogues especially when one of them was a teenager and the other one was a man over fifty. In the show, I only recognized that Jenna had amazing chemistry with everybody and that’s it.

The second one is the Duchess of Kent. Something I realized from the show as well is that we have some really nice mother-daughter moments, but that relationship didn’t evolve at all which is unsettling.

For example, we have some bonding with little Bertie and all that back in season 2, but in the Christmas special Vicky called “the woman who always mama cross.”

And in the book they had the cutest scene after Conroy left, but when Victoria was walking with Albert she doesn’t go to her and is implied she doesn’t think her mother needs kindness, I do understand that the relationship mended after her marriage, but I didn’t get why she would put these scenes and them do a total regression out the blue. Are they good or not good Daisy? made up your mind.