Medici the Magnificent - ep 2.04 Blood With Blood - reaction post
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This post started life as a series of pre-prepared tweets, and there are a few that I added in during the watchalong.
Lorenzo : “Never pick a fight you can’t win - it only strengthens your enemies.” Wise words.
The Alum wars - it’s a lot more complicated leading the Medici than I’d appreciated.
"There are moral lines I won't cross", says the married man to his married mistress.
Fabulous wedding scene - must be hard for Clarice to watch true love getting married.
Not sure whether Vaccari simply doesn’t understand market forces or just hates Florence. Or Lorenzo.
Oh, Vaccari is mates with Jacopo. So the answer to my previous query is he hates Lorenzo.
Jacopo: “What are facts? If the truth does not point in our direction, then bend it so it does!”
Spoken like a true politician. I know it’s Sean Bean, but Jacopo Pazzi is an arse. He’s more unlikeable than Joseph Wilford and that’s saying something.
Novella's gorgeous - and scary!
So Novella Foscari is intended for Guiliano de Medici but she has strange tastes and is more interested in Franceso Pazzi. This is getting complicated.
Clarice is brilliant - clever, ready to do the right thing, be an excellent wife, and all she requests is that Lorenzo show her respect and not publicly humiliate her. I hope he's got it now.
More secret plotting between Lorenzo and Francesco; Jacopo won’t like that.
And indeed he doesn’t. He looks quite upset here - is that because his nephews are turning against him?
Lorenzo puts a lot of store by "peace and stability for all". Perhaps he's a bit too naive for the business?
So weird hearing them talk casually about the Pope invading. So very Christian...
Sandro's so naive.
How can Guiliano suddenly become pretty when he closes his eyes lol
Middle-aged men, who won’t be fighting personally, going all out for war *sigh*
Great, he attacks because otherwise his men will desert or start murdering each other. How can he not be ashamed of having so little control of his own army?
Volterra is devastated. Shit just got real.
Pazzi smiles. I love it, but it doesn’t bode well for Florence.
Simonetta looking out for ?Guiliano. This is a really good way of showing us the realities of the lack of communication - she has no idea whether he survived.
I take it Daniel Sharman can't ride. We only see him in very close up, ie on a rocking-horse job, or riding away into the distance. Yup, apparently he says he isn't very good.
Guiliano: “I haven’t the stomach for this.” I’ve thought through the whole series so far that Guiliano is more attractive than Lorenzo, and now even more so. Lorenzo looks almost bland beside him.
Yeah, Giuliano and Simonetta kissing right out in the street is a brilliant idea.
Lorenzo was excellent in that scene with Clarice cleaning his hands, very moving and genuine.
I’m missing the significance of the hawks that we keep seeing. They’re presumably a metaphor for something, but I’m not getting it. [Life-long mating - it's all about strong marriages.]
There's so little Sean Bean in this that tbh if it weren't for the watchalong I would have given up some time ago. But I'm enjoying the watchalong so here I remain!
This post started life as a series of pre-prepared tweets, and there are a few that I added in during the watchalong.
Lorenzo : “Never pick a fight you can’t win - it only strengthens your enemies.” Wise words.
The Alum wars - it’s a lot more complicated leading the Medici than I’d appreciated.
"There are moral lines I won't cross", says the married man to his married mistress.
Fabulous wedding scene - must be hard for Clarice to watch true love getting married.
Not sure whether Vaccari simply doesn’t understand market forces or just hates Florence. Or Lorenzo.
Oh, Vaccari is mates with Jacopo. So the answer to my previous query is he hates Lorenzo.
Jacopo: “What are facts? If the truth does not point in our direction, then bend it so it does!”
Spoken like a true politician. I know it’s Sean Bean, but Jacopo Pazzi is an arse. He’s more unlikeable than Joseph Wilford and that’s saying something.
Novella's gorgeous - and scary!
So Novella Foscari is intended for Guiliano de Medici but she has strange tastes and is more interested in Franceso Pazzi. This is getting complicated.
Clarice is brilliant - clever, ready to do the right thing, be an excellent wife, and all she requests is that Lorenzo show her respect and not publicly humiliate her. I hope he's got it now.
More secret plotting between Lorenzo and Francesco; Jacopo won’t like that.
And indeed he doesn’t. He looks quite upset here - is that because his nephews are turning against him?
Lorenzo puts a lot of store by "peace and stability for all". Perhaps he's a bit too naive for the business?
So weird hearing them talk casually about the Pope invading. So very Christian...
Sandro's so naive.
How can Guiliano suddenly become pretty when he closes his eyes lol
Middle-aged men, who won’t be fighting personally, going all out for war *sigh*
Great, he attacks because otherwise his men will desert or start murdering each other. How can he not be ashamed of having so little control of his own army?
Volterra is devastated. Shit just got real.
Pazzi smiles. I love it, but it doesn’t bode well for Florence.
Simonetta looking out for ?Guiliano. This is a really good way of showing us the realities of the lack of communication - she has no idea whether he survived.
I take it Daniel Sharman can't ride. We only see him in very close up, ie on a rocking-horse job, or riding away into the distance. Yup, apparently he says he isn't very good.
Guiliano: “I haven’t the stomach for this.” I’ve thought through the whole series so far that Guiliano is more attractive than Lorenzo, and now even more so. Lorenzo looks almost bland beside him.
Yeah, Giuliano and Simonetta kissing right out in the street is a brilliant idea.
Lorenzo was excellent in that scene with Clarice cleaning his hands, very moving and genuine.
I’m missing the significance of the hawks that we keep seeing. They’re presumably a metaphor for something, but I’m not getting it. [Life-long mating - it's all about strong marriages.]
There's so little Sean Bean in this that tbh if it weren't for the watchalong I would have given up some time ago. But I'm enjoying the watchalong so here I remain!