robia just makes me [exhausted ben affleck reaction image], he’s Too Much while being so stupid. “do you trust me so little” you slept with her maid and then had a big dramatic scene between the two of you right in front of her bro
not that i don’t love nadricka or suddenly trust eclot, but it sends kind of a Message if she chooses someone else as a partner for eclot’s victory banquet, right? maybe i’m worried for nothing but this doesn’t seem like the best choice?
it’s super pretty, but the plot is So Extra and the fact that the author’s clearly never heard of “show don’t tell” weakens it more. it also makes it difficult to connect with the mc emotionally?? honestly more annoying for the fact that it seems to have most of the right pieces, but it just...
@onte sorry to butt into an ongoing convo, but i’d guess the reason you’re seeing people holding her husband more responsible in the flashback arc, and treating her like a child is because in many people’s minds, she was a child? basic math puts her getting pregnant and giving birth at age 17...
she was just a kid herself when she had him?? i feel bad for her son but she’s also a victim here. i’m really hoping the story doesn’t one-sidedly act like she was an awful person just bc she wasn’t a good mother (even if she views herself like that), and it handles the subject well.
i feel like the story’s gonna try and paint philip as a genuinely nice kid/guy (typical second male lead syndrome) but he just went along with her siblings insulting her to her face in the ancient language?? he was literally smiling when they compared her to a dog. i’m beyond unimpressed.
imho the romance is cute but only if you can completely turn your brain off - if you can’t manage to go into this with #no thoughts-just-fluff, it’s an exercise in frustration
maybe i’m being dumb, but the impression i got in s1 is that while claude is a pretty good king, he’s also totally willing to rule through bloodshed and doesn’t particularly need the aristocracy behind him. they never seemed to hold a ton of weight in this society compared to the throne, when he...
@helen_brite sure, if it doesn’t take a ton of your time?? thank you!! and yeah, i totally gotcha - normally i’m that way too but i think the months have just been building up. we’ll get through it though <3