Tag: tv: reign

another thingie about reign (although, no one asked, and i’m rewatching for some reason because  i’ve like…run out of things to watch, i guess, and it’s been long enough that it feels fresh) that was so infuriating was like…it was actually close to being good, with the aesthetic?

by which i mean, it was all very close to flowing together and being believable… it was very close to, at the very least, not being jarring.

because i feel like with a historic drama, you have limited options when it comes to that. you can either do it 90-100% anachronistic (which reign did not do, aesthetically), in a tongue-in-cheek way (sort of like…galavant, i guess?); or for the most part faithful to the setting and events of the era, with a few anachronisms just sprinkled in there, sort of like with the tudors (which showed, for instance, a printing press as a ‘new invention’ for england in 1530) in regard to costumes (which were often elizabethan rather than henrician, and sometimes not even close to being faithful to a nearby century’s fashion) etc. 

but reign did like, 70/30 or 80/20 for anachronism vs. historic realism and it’s frustrating because it was so close to being harmonious, and instead it ended up being discordant. it’s like listening to a piano piece and hearing the pianist hit the wrong notes, and seeing the right ones on the keyboard, close to their hands but unplayed. 

ameschreaves:

Before I met you, I loved someone. In that way that should’ve lasted a lifetime, but it didn’t. And when I lost her I thought I’d never feel again, and yet here I am. Here we are. As king and queen, our lives will always be in peril. We’re gonna be in danger no matter whether we’re together or not. Because of who we are, Mary, because of our blood. Elizabeth will keep coming after us. Let her come. Let the danger come. Doesn’t it make you feel alive?

ameschreaves:

I am England. And I need no one to save me. Not from Spain, not from the Catholic Church, not from anyone. I am Elizabeth Tudor, and I will bow to no man. I will face every threat to my reign with sword in hand. And any who stand in my way shall fall.