I did not know that I wanted to hear Lord Grantham say the word "booty" over and over again. But I did. I very much did.

Thanks for that hulu link! Luke Youngblood mouthing the words to "Go the Distance" is maybe the cutest thing that's ever happened.

MONKEY SIDEKICKS ARE 100% BETTER THAN CHILDREN! ALWAYS!

Peppercorns of the Caribbean—Castleroy gets his children safely ensconced at a nice boarding school in the Protestant-friendly Netherlands, then takes to the high seas to avail himself of the only career option left available to him now: piracy. He soon finds out that Greer refused to be left in the Netherlands…

Will it be about Historical Ghosts having sex with each other? Or modern people having sex with Historical Ghosts?

Did we all decide we hate Conde all of a sudden? Did we all become immune to the soulful, longing gazes of an attractive man towards a beautiful woman he cannot have?! Poor Louis!

I was just wondering this a week or two ago! Do they even still call it the Bloodwood anymore? Or is it just The Wood? Did all the pagans leave? I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS!

After the episode, I remembered reading about some of the controversy a while back but I had totally forgotten about it, so I was definitely surprised when it happened last night. Which may also be why I am not currently as outraged by the plot as some people who have been getting angry about it for months in advance…

Laurie McCarthy did mention in her interview that it was very important to her that there be no way to romanticize the rape in any way.

I think that there was an effort to balance out the fact that Mary had to pretend for the court by not spending even a minute forcing her to pretend to her husband that nothing had happened.

I spent the whole scene thinking "No, this isn't going to happen, someone will come, someone will stop this." But then it did happen. Oh, Mary.

Yes, Colin. The one who attempted to rape her friend/monarch.

Finally got watch the episode! (I was out of town all weekend.) I appreciate that Lola both told Francis like it was and also had the appropriate response to learning the guy she'd been flirting with had threatened her child. "Yup. F'er has to die." I am deeply unimpressed by Narcisse's flirtation with Claude,…

Lola is a rape apologist who had her friend/monarch's husband's baby. I don't hate her, but I don't really have problems with people who do.

Narcisse's love of baths and his apparent enthusiasm for the female orgasm are his two best qualities.

Oh, I wouldn't suggest he has doubts. More just regrets about the position it puts Mary in. Also, Show!Mary is pretty sympathetic to Protestants (I almost wrote prostitutes, although she is also sympathetic to them), so his having feelings for her doesn't really conflict with his convictions. But I don't really have…

Also, I just discovered the Reign Wiki's fashion page. If you covet any of the ladies' jewelry on this show or want to know how you can wear the same caftans as Lady Kenna, please let this page into your life: http://reign.wikia.com/wiki…

Hmm. I think I would like Conde to have been planning the whole thing for a while and still to go through with it, but to feel conflicted about it because of his feelings for Mary, rather than having it be a response to her rejecting him.

First note: Mary's short cape game in this episode was ON POINT, y'all.
Second note: I will always always find people's "I feel like I remember you being taller" jokes at Mary hilarious.

I figured just because it sounds like a show that boring old people watch.