#cmchronicles

On one level, I’m a little disappointed that we’re evidently not going to see Frederick (though IIRC I saw no evidence that he’d been cast (or the ‘General’?) so I’m not entirely surprised). On every other level, I’m so pleased that we don’t have to endure another slimeball, John was more than enough! And Cate & Isabella, along with Henry, have managed to give a good enough impression of him. Casting: A+++

I’m delighted that Cate (with Henry’s help!) seems to be publishing extra (hi-larious) videos (Eleanor!). I was trying to imagine how they could possibly squeeze everything that happens at Northanger into 3 or 4 episodes; Cate’s only supposed to be there for 2 weeks but we know(?) she’s going to be kicked out early, and that’s a very short space of time to pack so much in. Will she make it past Black Friday? WIll Cate, Henry, and Eleanor all watch Gilmore Girls together? Will we see Henry’s messy bedroom? These are the questions.

I’m still speculating as to what form Henry & Cate’s confrontation is going to take precisely. There hasn’t been much evidence up until now that she is conflating Henry with Luke, which was IIRC most people’s >ick factor< concern when the series began. The writers also seem to be going a more canonical route than, at least, I would’ve thought. Henry’s telling her ‘ghost stories’, Cate’s comparing Northanger with Udolpho, she’s looking in cabinets, hearing creepy sounds.  So is the confrontation going to remain fairly canonical? I could imagine, in a modern real-world context, that being a lot more disturbing and upsetting than in the book. Is our Cate actually naive enough to believe that though? She was interested in what Isabella said and her naivety’s becoming more obvious, but to really believe Perez Hilton-level gossip? To actually say it to Henry? Or maybe there’ll be some other, unforeseen, element that hasn’t been introduced yet?

That being said, since this tends to be changed in adaptations, will Henry forgive her immediately, before James’s ‘letter’, before she’s booted out? Presuming she is booted out... and what form that’ll take. The General’s thoughts and John’s whispers seem to be fairly canonical too, so...