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Peter really, really wants two of his horses to bang.
It is the first step to creating a European superhorse that will be his legacy.
Peter thinks this is a terrible idea, but hes pretty distracted by the whole superhorse idea.
That cant be right.
Yale Law Library author, I dispute you.
These include a monkey for every village and renaming raspberries Peterberries.
I just love him.
But also, those monkeys would be so cold (unless they wereJapanese macaques!).
She may have a point.
Should I stop being Team Marial in every single interaction?
No, she is perfect.
Catherines very first move, her choice for an easy win, is to outlaw murder.
Everyone is mad, but mostly the nobles, because they think shes keeping all the murder for herself.
the best character on that show.
Abolish the class system!).
Georgina saves the day by faking a fit, and they adjourn.
Day one did not go swimmingly.
If theres one truth about Peter, its that hehates Simitz.
Have we ever heard of him before?
But killing him is now the driving force in Peters life.
Thats the thing about Peter; he lives in the now.
Or rather, he lives in the now while wanting to murder someone for decades-old wrongs theyve done him.
Simitz sucks too much.
In brief, he abused Peter in front of his father to make Peter the Great laugh.
Catherine still doesnt want Peter to murder him, though.
The nobles are still an unknown, though, and they make up two-thirds of the vote.
The first proclamation is that, yes, every village in Russia will have its own monkey thunderous applause.
Immediately after Grigor shoots him, though, Peter cuts Simitzs throat.
Then Georgina bashes his head in with a rock.
You werent the only ones he fucked with back then.
Damn, Simitz, how shittywereyou?
At the end of the day, Peter and Catherine go to bed.
The complications of marriage when you are in eighteenth-century Russia and also an imperial monarch!
Weve pretty much eschewed this idea nowadays, although England likes topretend its kind of still a thing.
Peter keeps practicing so he doesnt hit Paul.
Meanwhile, Catherine thinks history will judge her harshly for the monkey in every village idea.
It bears repeating that I love this show.
She immediately equates Paul with Peter and states that the ordinationandthe stag ceremony are canceled.
In her upsetness, Catherinestops ignoring Marialand they become friends again (HUZZAH).
Since Catherine and Peter do, they have a marriage manual to work through.
The Science of Marriagegives them a number of exercises, including tug of war, a yoga (?)
In the end, Grigor and Marial play badminton with Catherine and Peter.
Marial holds it together and doesnt start stabbing Peter, so thats a win.
I wouldloveit ifone of my period shows that I recapfinally had a decent queer woman storyline.
Pauls second word is book, and Catherine is wavering re: the whole ordination thing.
Marial urges her not to give in.
Elizabeth wrestles Catherine to the ground and makes her admit shes using a lemon top as birth control.
I think Elizabeth is concerned because of her obsession regarding the succession?
Catherine tells her shes still against the ordination, but they can do the stag ceremony.
Because of this, Elizabeth and Archie tell Peter theyllsecretlyordain Paul at midnight.
Catherine takes out the lemon top.
Peter shoots the stag.
Archie wakes up Peters former double Pugachev and tells him theyre going to fuck over the empress.
