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cahnNot only are these posts still going, there is now (more) original research going on in them deciphering and translating letters in archives that apparently no one has bothered to look at before?? (Which has now conclusively exonerated Fritz's valet/chamberlain Fredersdorf from the charge that he was dismissed because of financial irregularities and died shortly thereafter "ashamed of his lost honor," as Wikipedia would have it. I'M JUST SAYING.)
Re: TV Take On 18th Century Imperial Marriage Counselling
Date: 2023-06-29 05:04 am (UTC)Heh, I appreciate that in the script!
Though I suppose that line of logic makes more sense for the MarriageCounselor!Joseph that's on this show than, er, RL Sex!Counselor!Joseph anyway...
he did listen because he has her dog brought from Austria and reunited with her. (AW, even ahistorically so.) Fast forward to the Joseph episode, where we first see Joseph from behind, and the signal that this isn't a sinister stranger is that the dog immediately recognizes him and greets him with enthusiasm.
Aw, I like this too, historical or not!
Re: TV Take On 18th Century Imperial Marriage Counselling
Date: 2023-06-29 07:32 am (UTC)Indeed; these two tasksets might overlap but are still distinctly different. (Not to mention that the tv show changed the sex advice to "let a professional explain this to you via demonstration so you'll learn". BTW, the Coppola movie gets around the trickiness by letting Joseph and Louis stroll to admire the French elephant and Joseph joking he has one in Vienna as well, and maybe they could match, and then transition to "speaking of...." and the camera pulls back further and further so we see the two as the courtiers see them from a distance, unable to hear anything. Cut to Louis finally managing penetration in bed with MA.)
Re: TV Take On 18th Century Imperial Marriage Counselling
Date: 2023-07-05 05:24 am (UTC)