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shallownessMy Lady Jane - 1.7 Another Girl, Another Planet
As Mary took the crown, Jane was back to being a lady. Her main concern was keeping her head on her neck as Mary denounced her as a traitor and couldn’t help herself from being gleeful about executing Jane. Guildford had somehow got there in time to see all this from nearby, but could do nothing about it.
Norfolk pointed out to Mary that just executing Jane might not go down well with her subjects, reminding her (and the nearby Elizabeth) of Henry and Anne Boleyn. She agreed to a trial. It wasn’t going to be a fair one, after all.
Fitz turns out to be extremely good looking in daylight. Edward’s first attempt to get back into the castle/palace was foiled by the guards not knowing who he was, so Fitz took him to an Ethian pub (where drunkards turn into bats that fly straight into posts.) Edward used ‘peasant’ as an adjective a lot, before learning that Charles was an Ethian and might be able to get him back into the castle/palace. We also learned that Fitz had a twin sister, also an Ethian.
Lady Frances, with all her self-assurance, tried sweet-talking Mary into pardoning Jane, but it didn’t work. However, she discovered that Margaret had dobbed her sister in. It was accidental, Margaret sobbed, but Mama Dear was rather nasty about it, making Margaret run away – into Mary’s arms figuratively. The littlest Lady in Waiting got her revenge, bysuggesting Lady Frances’s new job/honour, which was serving the new Queen as she used the toilet. (Real job.) All this shows that Frances does care about Jane, although there’d be more chat about Dudley’s feelings for his sons, as Guildford joined him and Stan at their safe house. Guildford wanted them to help him rescue Jane, the woman he loved, but Dudley wouldn’t.
Under home arrest, Jane learned that there was going to be a trial, and went into girlie swot mode in what seemed like a very long night, because she fell asleep and was woken when Guildford sneaked into her room, offering to rescue her. She turned him down, because of the repercussions for her family and because she (naively?) thought she had a chance at the trial. He found this rather hot and they had sex, more of which was shown than last time.
Afterwards, we learned a bit more about Guildford’s mother’s death, that he’d transformed for the first time because he was scared by the Ethian thieves and couldn’t remember exactly what had happened next, but his mother was dead. He’d then had troubling dreams, and his father had, for years, refused to tell him what had really happened. Jane was supportive, and I thought that if he had trampled his mother as a scared horse or whatever, it was hardly something he could control.
The next morning, a drunk Stan decided he was going to help Guildford and chided his father, for all his favouritism towards Guildford for not helping him. Dudley agreed. They didn’t seem to have a plan.
Also, Fitz wouldn’t join Edward in his attempt to reveal himself and rescue Jane – as he said, he didn’t know her. Feeling let down, Edward went alone.
But Jane did a good impersonation of Portia, pointing out that Edward’s will had made her Queen and they’d all gone along with it, so if she was to be accused of treason, they all should be or something. Elizabeth supported her, having had enough of her half-sister (and it must be said that it was a tactical error by Mary not to keep Bess locked in her room.) Norfolk ordered Jane out before Mary killed her with her own bare hands.
Which is how Jane found out Edward was still alive and wanted to rescue her. She pointed out the flaws in his plan and that he should try to regain his throne with an army behind him (thus suggesting that she had a better grasp of how to be a monarch than him for all his longer experience.) He acceded to this, and she was brought back to court to learn that she was acquitted. Yay! Edward left the castle/palace to bump into Fitz, who said that he’d always planned to hand Edward over to Seymour for his sister’s sake, because she was imprisoned in his sekrit Ethian prison. (So she wasn’t Petunia or whatever he name is. Shame. Mainly because he turns into a cat and she turns into a dog.) But why hadn’t he done this when he had the chance earlier in the episode? Edward asked. Ah, he had feelings for Edward. There was kissing.
Speaking of Seymour, we found out where he was during the trial, when he spoiled Jane’s moment of triumph by bringing in Guildford’s groom, clearly having been beaten up, to reveal to court that Guildford was an Ethian. ‘Rubbish’ cried Lady Frances. But they also had a horse (I was hoping it would just be a horse and they’d made a mistake), but it was Guildford and it was just about to turn night. Much anguish for Jane. Guildford returned to human form, and he and Jane were facing death (although I wondered whether they could argue that Jane’s law to repeal division laws might stand. Not to Mary, though.) New cliffhanger, then.
Jane had great hair all episode.
I was going to watch the next episode of Cardiac Arrest, but it’s vanished from iPlayer. Grr. It’s my fault for not paying more attention when I had iPlayer open on the laptop, where I can see for how long a programme is available. Oddly, ‘Jed Mercurio Remembers Cardiac Arrest’ was still available, so I watched that. It’s a brief intro by someone associated with an old BBC show that gets shown on BBC4.
Apparently he answered an ad from a production company wanting a doctor to help them with a new drama that would be a more realistic portrayal of what happened in the NHS, but he ended up writing a script (and becoming a very well-regarded scriptwriter.) He mainly talked about the backlash from the medical establishment (Virginia Bottomley was the health secretary then!) People were writing in to Points of View claiming the show was totally unrealistic, when Mercurio was writing from his own and his colleagues’ experience. He didn’t really talk much about what happened when the first series was a hit and they made two more or when he decided to leave medicine for screenwriting, but said that it was quite late in production terms when he pointed out how young these baby doctors were and so they ended up giving a lot of young actors their first major jobs, (of whom Helen Baxendale has been the most successful.)
As Mary took the crown, Jane was back to being a lady. Her main concern was keeping her head on her neck as Mary denounced her as a traitor and couldn’t help herself from being gleeful about executing Jane. Guildford had somehow got there in time to see all this from nearby, but could do nothing about it.
Norfolk pointed out to Mary that just executing Jane might not go down well with her subjects, reminding her (and the nearby Elizabeth) of Henry and Anne Boleyn. She agreed to a trial. It wasn’t going to be a fair one, after all.
Fitz turns out to be extremely good looking in daylight. Edward’s first attempt to get back into the castle/palace was foiled by the guards not knowing who he was, so Fitz took him to an Ethian pub (where drunkards turn into bats that fly straight into posts.) Edward used ‘peasant’ as an adjective a lot, before learning that Charles was an Ethian and might be able to get him back into the castle/palace. We also learned that Fitz had a twin sister, also an Ethian.
Lady Frances, with all her self-assurance, tried sweet-talking Mary into pardoning Jane, but it didn’t work. However, she discovered that Margaret had dobbed her sister in. It was accidental, Margaret sobbed, but Mama Dear was rather nasty about it, making Margaret run away – into Mary’s arms figuratively. The littlest Lady in Waiting got her revenge, bysuggesting Lady Frances’s new job/honour, which was serving the new Queen as she used the toilet. (Real job.) All this shows that Frances does care about Jane, although there’d be more chat about Dudley’s feelings for his sons, as Guildford joined him and Stan at their safe house. Guildford wanted them to help him rescue Jane, the woman he loved, but Dudley wouldn’t.
Under home arrest, Jane learned that there was going to be a trial, and went into girlie swot mode in what seemed like a very long night, because she fell asleep and was woken when Guildford sneaked into her room, offering to rescue her. She turned him down, because of the repercussions for her family and because she (naively?) thought she had a chance at the trial. He found this rather hot and they had sex, more of which was shown than last time.
Afterwards, we learned a bit more about Guildford’s mother’s death, that he’d transformed for the first time because he was scared by the Ethian thieves and couldn’t remember exactly what had happened next, but his mother was dead. He’d then had troubling dreams, and his father had, for years, refused to tell him what had really happened. Jane was supportive, and I thought that if he had trampled his mother as a scared horse or whatever, it was hardly something he could control.
The next morning, a drunk Stan decided he was going to help Guildford and chided his father, for all his favouritism towards Guildford for not helping him. Dudley agreed. They didn’t seem to have a plan.
Also, Fitz wouldn’t join Edward in his attempt to reveal himself and rescue Jane – as he said, he didn’t know her. Feeling let down, Edward went alone.
But Jane did a good impersonation of Portia, pointing out that Edward’s will had made her Queen and they’d all gone along with it, so if she was to be accused of treason, they all should be or something. Elizabeth supported her, having had enough of her half-sister (and it must be said that it was a tactical error by Mary not to keep Bess locked in her room.) Norfolk ordered Jane out before Mary killed her with her own bare hands.
Which is how Jane found out Edward was still alive and wanted to rescue her. She pointed out the flaws in his plan and that he should try to regain his throne with an army behind him (thus suggesting that she had a better grasp of how to be a monarch than him for all his longer experience.) He acceded to this, and she was brought back to court to learn that she was acquitted. Yay! Edward left the castle/palace to bump into Fitz, who said that he’d always planned to hand Edward over to Seymour for his sister’s sake, because she was imprisoned in his sekrit Ethian prison. (So she wasn’t Petunia or whatever he name is. Shame. Mainly because he turns into a cat and she turns into a dog.) But why hadn’t he done this when he had the chance earlier in the episode? Edward asked. Ah, he had feelings for Edward. There was kissing.
Speaking of Seymour, we found out where he was during the trial, when he spoiled Jane’s moment of triumph by bringing in Guildford’s groom, clearly having been beaten up, to reveal to court that Guildford was an Ethian. ‘Rubbish’ cried Lady Frances. But they also had a horse (I was hoping it would just be a horse and they’d made a mistake), but it was Guildford and it was just about to turn night. Much anguish for Jane. Guildford returned to human form, and he and Jane were facing death (although I wondered whether they could argue that Jane’s law to repeal division laws might stand. Not to Mary, though.) New cliffhanger, then.
Jane had great hair all episode.
I was going to watch the next episode of Cardiac Arrest, but it’s vanished from iPlayer. Grr. It’s my fault for not paying more attention when I had iPlayer open on the laptop, where I can see for how long a programme is available. Oddly, ‘Jed Mercurio Remembers Cardiac Arrest’ was still available, so I watched that. It’s a brief intro by someone associated with an old BBC show that gets shown on BBC4.
Apparently he answered an ad from a production company wanting a doctor to help them with a new drama that would be a more realistic portrayal of what happened in the NHS, but he ended up writing a script (and becoming a very well-regarded scriptwriter.) He mainly talked about the backlash from the medical establishment (Virginia Bottomley was the health secretary then!) People were writing in to Points of View claiming the show was totally unrealistic, when Mercurio was writing from his own and his colleagues’ experience. He didn’t really talk much about what happened when the first series was a hit and they made two more or when he decided to leave medicine for screenwriting, but said that it was quite late in production terms when he pointed out how young these baby doctors were and so they ended up giving a lot of young actors their first major jobs, (of whom Helen Baxendale has been the most successful.)
