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Very interesting that the two new shows I'm most interested in were so different this week. I think I like both Sleepy Hollow and Reign because they mostly try to be serious, and mostly end up a tad silly. This week Sleepy Hollow succeeded in pulling off a serious episode. Reign, despite domestic violence, threats of beheadings, and what-not came off extra silly. There was very little specifically funny, but in trying to be serious the whole episode produced more snorts and chuckles than moments of suspense and concern.
Clothing is fun on the two shows in different ways. On the one hand you have he, who never changes his shirt, and on the other you have she, who can barely finish a sentence without changing her dress. And neither of those characteristics seems too unhistorical. The smell from Ichabod's woolen jacket might be a bit too authentic, if we think about it. He was buried in it for 200 plus years, and after many weeks Ichabod doesn't seem to have a spare to leave at the dry cleaners. The costumes on Reign aren't close to authentic, but they are sort of suggestive of an earlier age. It would be nice if they were more consistently so. I know precious little about the history of women's fashion. But even I have to shake my head once in awhile and ask, "What the hell is she wearing?" be it Queen Mary or one of her companions.
I feel like the terminology for the maguffin of this Reign episode was all wrong. I don't think they should have used the word 'seal' to describe the design on ambassador's medallion. It wasn't usable as a seal, as in sealing a letter with wax. But I don't honestly know what they should have been saying. Device? Emblem? So I guess I will just assume they were saying the right words in French and in translating to modern English they used words dummies like me could at least understand. Clearly if two emblems were the same except for the background color, the seals would have to be different in some other way. Otherwise when you pressed the seals in wax you couldn't tell the queen's seal from the ambassador's.
Relatively speaking - Again the show played with kinship. This time the ambassador says he is related to the English royal family by marriage. Of course, that also makes him related similarly to Scotland's Mary as well, so she could possibly have had some idea who he was to begin with, especially since he was using a device so similar to the Tudor's. So who was he? Mary is the granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Margaret. So he might be a grandchild of Margaret and Henry's sister Mary Tudor by Charles Duke of Suffolk or more likely one of the non-Tudor cousin's of her grandchildren.
Clothing is fun on the two shows in different ways. On the one hand you have he, who never changes his shirt, and on the other you have she, who can barely finish a sentence without changing her dress. And neither of those characteristics seems too unhistorical. The smell from Ichabod's woolen jacket might be a bit too authentic, if we think about it. He was buried in it for 200 plus years, and after many weeks Ichabod doesn't seem to have a spare to leave at the dry cleaners. The costumes on Reign aren't close to authentic, but they are sort of suggestive of an earlier age. It would be nice if they were more consistently so. I know precious little about the history of women's fashion. But even I have to shake my head once in awhile and ask, "What the hell is she wearing?" be it Queen Mary or one of her companions.
I feel like the terminology for the maguffin of this Reign episode was all wrong. I don't think they should have used the word 'seal' to describe the design on ambassador's medallion. It wasn't usable as a seal, as in sealing a letter with wax. But I don't honestly know what they should have been saying. Device? Emblem? So I guess I will just assume they were saying the right words in French and in translating to modern English they used words dummies like me could at least understand. Clearly if two emblems were the same except for the background color, the seals would have to be different in some other way. Otherwise when you pressed the seals in wax you couldn't tell the queen's seal from the ambassador's.
Relatively speaking - Again the show played with kinship. This time the ambassador says he is related to the English royal family by marriage. Of course, that also makes him related similarly to Scotland's Mary as well, so she could possibly have had some idea who he was to begin with, especially since he was using a device so similar to the Tudor's. So who was he? Mary is the granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Margaret. So he might be a grandchild of Margaret and Henry's sister Mary Tudor by Charles Duke of Suffolk or more likely one of the non-Tudor cousin's of her grandchildren.
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