yeah, I’d be surprised if they had been that clever. (My favourite episode of the entire series is in season 2 - when Uncle Davids Nazi past is revealed - features Jared Harris. I wonder did he come back for that?)

I wonder, did she come back to shoot the scene, or was it shoot in the first season?

..and this is where The Crown became a sci-fi show: Liz authorized a leak?; had a political argument with Thatcher?; personally organised a Commonwealth statement? Complete nonsense. Fun to watch, but never happened!

imagine having 11 1/2 years of Trump, not 4...

Big vote for Arthur Christmas. God, the voice talent in that movie is ridiculous.

she wasn’t?

Lady Diana Spencer, daughter of the 8th Earl Spencer? Possibly.  

There’s English class snobbery, then there’s English Aristocracy snobbery. There was a lot of talk in the uk at the time that having a Spencer in the family was giving the Windsors more credibility.

the first episode made it look like there was a direction cause and effect from Bloody Sunday to Mountbatten’s murder - they where years, and many, many bombings and murders apart!

good catch. God, that’s obnoxious. And it feels like they're trying to diminish her, but doing it the wrong way. What a mess. 

re The Beat’s “Stand Down Margaret”- wait for it...

agreed: proposing that the Falklands War happened because Margaret was upset that her idiot son had gone missing is completely offensive and just dramatically wrong. They even brought up the real reason - she was going to lose the next election and wanted a diversion - but left it hanging. Why not explore that?

by “more Royal”, I meant they where older and more aristocratic than the Saxe-Coburgs, so I assumed she’d have met her fair share of titled (and entitled) aristos. Not so much about genetics, more about experience.

...and then somehow forgiven for all that after the Falklands. I’ll never understand the English. 

she also earned the support of the unemployed class, even those that she had unemployed deliberately. (Looking at you, Yorkshire miners.)

I think the choice to make the engagement and wedding so specifically through the lens of Dianas loneliness was a mistake. Generally, I don’t love when the show makes a huge cultural moment about just one character, but this time it felt more limited than usual. We’re here for the big moments, and seeing her walking…

didn’t Pratt call him a Trash Panda? I think Thor introduces Rocket and Groot to Captain America as “my friends, Rabbit, and Tree.”

“the rest of the Guardians—Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, raccoon—will also appear in the film,”

agreed, but give it a few minutes, someone will be pissed off about it. 

Pooshy!