Isabel: Hm, turns out he went back to his brother. Why, indeed? Also, that last exchange was in the script. If it is God’s will that Henry should be king, why put another obstacle in the way? Margaret: But he gives Elizabeth a son and her dead husband an heir. Jasper: Besides, you know God is on our side. Margaret: I’ll believe it when I see bodies. The show has clearly chosen to ally him with the Targaryens instead.Īlso, the date should be 1471 by now, but nobody really seems to care about time on this show.Įveryone: Rumour has it Edward and Richard drowned crossing the Channel! The latter was in fact the case we get references in several London chronicles to a blue velvet robe that Henry wore on the two brief occasions when he left the Tower in 1470-71. We appear to have either picked up exactly where we left off at the end of the previous episode, or Henry has only one doublet. Anne and Richard end up meeting cute in spite of dialogue determined to make them both look like prize idiots, and Henry VI kicks it. We also get our two big battles, neither of which is particularly big and one of which involves ridiculous river magic. In this episode, we lose two characters I really liked, that brought a great deal of nuance and subtlety to a show that lacks both. Also, Edward and Elizabeth finally have a son. PREVIOUSLY: Margaret of Anjou owns your soul, George is not happy with Warwick, Warwick is unhappy with his life choices, and only Margaret Beaufort is pleased with how things have turned out. Haven’t you noticed we’re a protagonist short?: The more I think about it, why isn’t there historical fiction… It would be fascinating–probably not as fascinating as Warwick, but someone should try it! I’d love to read a novel from Clarence’s perspective.

Shakespeare gives him a wonderful speech before he’s murdered in Richard III, and although he’s a pretty thoroughgoing villain in the Henry VI plays, everyone else is awful enough that he really doesn’t stand out. Authors are only human, and trying to explain Richard Neville might be more than anyone wants to take on, which is a shame, because the man is fascinating and deserves a novel that isn’t by Edmund Bulwer-Lytton.Īs for Clarence, he’s almost always shoehorned in as a villain.

There’s also the issue of interpretation, which is particularly dicey when dealing with these two men, both of whom make some very bad life choices for reasons that will never be fully explained. I have not read it myself, although I heard a paper at a conference recently that kind of tempted me… There is a novel about Warwick– The Last of the Barons by none other than Edmund Bulwer-Lytton (of Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest fame). And Edward and Elizabeth keep pushing to make him revolt, keep testing him and taking away his lands, and then his wife dies and – everything goes to shit.īut maybe that’s the reason why: historical fiction about George or Warwick, with them as the central characters… It wouldn’t have a happy ending. George perpetually feeling like he is the additional son a little jealous of Richard, but determined to win back Edward’s love. You could end it at Tewkesbury, or you could keep going. You could even spin it so that George and Isabel married for love. They’re scared, and angry, and pushed out of court by the Woodville faction, and the whole second act would be George fighting to get back to his brothers and struggling with what he should do in their head. Warwick is humiliated in front of half of Europe, George – who’s been fatherless since he was a boy – pretty much loses his brother to a woman, and seeks something like a parental role from Warwick. I mean, look at it from their perspective. And in The Kingmaker’s Daughter, George is so plainly not evil that it hurts (he’s terrified of Elizabeth Woodville, he thinks she’s going to kill him). The more I think about it, why isn’t there historical fiction from George/Warwick’s point of view? Whilst they’re the “bad guys' of The White Queen, they’re played enough that you feel some sympathy for them.

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