I love the show Victoria (itv) because of the subtle reversing of period/historical drama gender based cliches- allow me to explain
Albert: I'm not like other boys(TM), I'm sulky and broody and wear my hair in my face. I seduced my wife by playing piano while sending her shy glances across the room. I have nothing to do but prattle about the palace all day, but everyone tells me my position will be cemented when we have a son and heir. I have taken up with a cause that it is interesting enough to be relevant to a modern audience, but is still charity based and not governmental. I would desperately like us to start having babies because I want a family. I was given a servant who I am very sure is a spy and doesn't like me. (Every female cliche in a period drama)
Victoria: I angrily ride horses while debating about whether or not to propose to Albert. My best friend in the whole world is my dog. I am too busy running the country to notice how miserable my husband is, but I try my best to make him happy with pretty gifts. I abhor the thought of children, and am also terrified of the high rate of death in childbirth, but eventually I'll cave because my spouse desperately wants babies. The writers tried to give me a character, but at some point every plotline became about my spouse. I have canonically said "all babies look like frogs to me" (Every male cliche in a period drama)
Kylie Minogue - via social media - "Well, THAT just happened. Thank you SOOOO much to everyone for a truly unforgettable night at Royal Albert Hall. I’m attemptingggg not to give away any spoilers for all of you tuning in to ITV on Sun 10th Dec at 7:45pm… but here I was signing the RAH guest book after 💗Cher💗 the night before. xx"
Could you name a few of your all time favorite first cousin couples from fiction?
When I think about it, I don't have a lot of favorite first cousin couples, but I'll try to name a few.
I read the manga "Mariage Recipe" and the couple was cute, so I liked it. Since that's my job, I should probably read more shipcest manga, lol. That's what I'm planning to do, so expect more manga posts soon.
Valentina and Federico from "The five Juanas" think they're half-siblings, but they stay together after finding out they're first cousins.
In the game "Romance club" there's Mehmed who's MC's first cousin and you can romance him. It's a bit (or not a bit) toxic romance, but I love it.
Couples from "Lovebird", "How I live now", "Blue lagoon" are fine, can't say they're my favorite though.
I'm sure I would like Victoria and Albert if I watched "Victoria", even if it's based on real people I still see it as fiction because I don't ship real people lol.
But if we count non-canon too, then I definitely have a favorite first cousin couple, that would be Haruka and Kanata from "Harukana receive". I love them.
I also ship Camilo and Isabela from "Encanto", but it's not like the ship has a solid foundation lol, I just like the idea.
Got some surprising news about ITV/PBS' "Victoria" as Daisy Goodwin did a new interview and actually spoke about the 4th season and it's still in the works of coming back!!! :D According to Daisy they're thinking of getting it back into production in 2025 and she's already written some of the scripts. She said they took time off for multiple reasons including Jenna wanting to do other roles but they do still plan to make season 4. I know most of us assumed it has been cancelled but this whole time both ITV and PBS have only said it's been on hiatus and this has happened to a lot of other British shows so it's still seems possible we will get season 4 after all. Plus this would make Jenna actually closer in age to Queen Victoria when Prince Albert died as that likely will be what's coming and introducing John Brown as well as Daisy already talked about casting him. I do wonder if this happens they'll make it work as a final season too. Daisy also answered a lot about how they made the show and her research into it here too. She's also gotten back into writing historical fiction and has a couple new books coming out soon too and wrote another show that's going to be announced soon too.
So really nice seeing this this morning and actually getting hope we'll get that 4th season after all.