Firstly, I am not a royalist or someone from the UK, so I'm coming from a completely unbiased viewpoint when reviewing this. Those loyal to the monarchy, I imagine, will never truly appreciate or agree with the Crown as a whole.
With that said, coming from a viewer who watched a well crafted episode of television, I applaud the writers, music supervisors, editors etc because my heart was racing throughout most of this episode, and the pacing was great. I thought many of the specific themes happening throughout were done well, especially the "modern world" theme, we saw how the BBC chairman and director butted heads around the programming, Prince William introducing modern TV to the Queen. That end scene where the Queen was watching Prince William flip through the channels and seeing all this TV programming that clearly overwhelmed her and made no sense to her...which why would it, she has shown that her way of thinking has been that of tradition. There were really some great things happening throughout and I think as a work of television art, this was by far the best episode of the season!
With that said, coming from a viewer who watched a well crafted episode of television, I applaud the writers, music supervisors, editors etc because my heart was racing throughout most of this episode, and the pacing was great. I thought many of the specific themes happening throughout were done well, especially the "modern world" theme, we saw how the BBC chairman and director butted heads around the programming, Prince William introducing modern TV to the Queen. That end scene where the Queen was watching Prince William flip through the channels and seeing all this TV programming that clearly overwhelmed her and made no sense to her...which why would it, she has shown that her way of thinking has been that of tradition. There were really some great things happening throughout and I think as a work of television art, this was by far the best episode of the season!