Maybe they're going to take liberties with chronology.
Thinking about it, should they do an arc with Poniatowski getting elected King with massive Catherine back, then surprising her by actually prioritizing Poland, then Poland getting partionened etc,, it would make narrative sense, I suppose to have the love affair at the start of it so it can be one story, just as I can see the point of cutting Poniatowski out of a story that focuses on the Catherine/Peter drama and Catherine' ascension, since their affair, while important to them when it happened, did not in the end impact on that tale, whereas both Catherine's first affair with Saltykov and the later with Grigorii Orlov are relevant to the Peter story. However, Poniatowski having an affair with Czarina Catherine is a different issue from Poniatowki having an affair with Grand Duchess Catherine.
...also, I doubt that a Russian tv series in the age of Putin is going to be critical of a Russia leader's behavior vis a vis Poland somehow....
Wigs: I sympathize. So do the produces of the Charles II tv show, because the periwig is even worse for facial recognition. Their solution was to declare that it's likely that a) the men were haired beneath it, and b) they didn't wear their wigs on private occasions, so the number of times everyone wears periwigs is cut to the absolute necessary minimum. The solution for the women is that they get wildly different hairstyles in their wigs. Meanwhile, the produces of the Versailles tv show, which takes place at the same time (supposedly) and even features some of the same characters, puts the men in natural long hair (supposedly, the actors don't have it, of course) with no curls and the women all as well (though still iln widly different hair styles. It looks gorgeous, but not much like Louis XVIV at all.
I was short sighted in Kindergarten, too, but it hadn't progressed yet ot the point it did in third grade when my teacher noticed I was writing after what I heard because I couldn't read what was written on the board.
Re: How (Not) To Conduct A Very Secret Affair
Thinking about it, should they do an arc with Poniatowski getting elected King with massive Catherine back, then surprising her by actually prioritizing Poland, then Poland getting partionened etc,, it would make narrative sense, I suppose to have the love affair at the start of it so it can be one story, just as I can see the point of cutting Poniatowski out of a story that focuses on the Catherine/Peter drama and Catherine' ascension, since their affair, while important to them when it happened, did not in the end impact on that tale, whereas both Catherine's first affair with Saltykov and the later with Grigorii Orlov are relevant to the Peter story. However, Poniatowski having an affair with Czarina Catherine is a different issue from Poniatowki having an affair with Grand Duchess Catherine.
...also, I doubt that a Russian tv series in the age of Putin is going to be critical of a Russia leader's behavior vis a vis Poland somehow....
Wigs: I sympathize. So do the produces of the Charles II tv show, because the periwig is even worse for facial recognition. Their solution was to declare that it's likely that a) the men were haired beneath it, and b) they didn't wear their wigs on private occasions, so the number of times everyone wears periwigs is cut to the absolute necessary minimum. The solution for the women is that they get wildly different hairstyles in their wigs. Meanwhile, the produces of the Versailles tv show, which takes place at the same time (supposedly) and even features some of the same characters, puts the men in natural long hair (supposedly, the actors don't have it, of course) with no curls and the women all as well (though still iln widly different hair styles. It looks gorgeous, but not much like Louis XVIV at all.
I was short sighted in Kindergarten, too, but it hadn't progressed yet ot the point it did in third grade when my teacher noticed I was writing after what I heard because I couldn't read what was written on the board.