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Sep. 3rd, 2024 08:06 am
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My Lady Jane - 1.6 I Feel Free

I was a little distracted by a RL kerfuffle when I sat down to watch this, so I wasn’t quite feeling it at first, but am willing to concede that was me, not the episode. With Guildford gone and the emotional fallout that, Jane had to balance the fact that she needed the nobility for their armies to fight Mary, and that the nobility (essentially men) didn’t like her plans to scrap division laws. She said they’d have a ‘tourney’ to buy time, but thanks to the weather had to settle on a form of Tudor bowling. Some big revelations ensued: Archer was a toff by birth, admitted publicly. He seemed happy to flirt with Jane (although the sizzle factor was very low compared with Jane/Guildford) but wasn’t going to call up an Ethian army for her.

Catherine (or is it Katherine?)—the middle sister was finally getting somewhere with the age-appropriate bloke who had caught her eye when her mother caught them, he skedaddled, and Lady Frances revealed that although he was in Norfolk’s retinue, he was Seymour’s son. Oh dear. Although I’m not sure that that automatically means he’s all in with all of Seymour’s plans. But he’s less educated than she is and a bit of a chicken. Obviously better than her dead old leer of an ex-husband, but still.

Also revealed to Edward? His Grannie’s plan was to kill all Verities (i.e. non-Ethians) and as her torture methods hadn’t got Edward to manifest and he’d spent all his life thinking he was a Verity, he decided to escape. He also decided he fancied Fitz, who turned out to be in it for himself until Edward saved him and he saved Edward. There was a warrior nun with a scary weapon, you see. The last we saw of them, they were getting out of the nunnery.

It was also revealed to Jane and Stan that Lady Frances had hired the Ginger Ethian to lure Guildford away. Along with angsty!Guildford, we learned that they were headed for the Beast-tamer (pronoun: she). He learned this after being hit on the head and waking up with a chain around his neck that would kill him when he transformed at sunrise. A random guy kindly freed him, and he was headed back to Jane having changed his mind about ‘lifting the curse’, but he was a long way away from home…

Lady Frances had appeared to be flirting with Lord Scope (into astrology, bit of an idiot), but was really trying to arrange a remarriage with Jane, who wasn’t having any of it. Stan was also apparently done with Lady F as she’d treated his brother so shabbily. She pointed out that he was the one who’d grassed Guildford up to her out of lust. In the midst of all this we learned that Guildford’s mother (and Stan’s mother) had been killed by Ethians (presumably we’ll learn more about the circumstances) and Guildford blamed himself for it. So angsty!

The episode ended with all the nobles and their soldiers gone, Jane running out of the castle alone into a couple of armies, and Mary at the head of one of them, grinning in a way that showed off how sharp her teeth were…

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