Let me state first that I am up to speed on the series, but well some of us are a bit lagging.. so as a kindness of course I will watch with him.
Plus its a banging episode anyway.
As Alyson mentioned Season 5 is on the horizon.. stoked…til then, reruns with the boss.
That was pretty awesome.
In this episode Pandora throws a pajama party with 4 friends and an uptight mother.
Fetch the engines, fetch the engines.
Fire fire, Fire Fire!
Pour on water, pour on water.
London’s burning, London’s burning.
Late summer, 1666: London was an emotional and physical tinderbox. Following decades of political and religious upheaval, the restoration in 1660 of the Protestant Charles II ensured that suspicion lingered around republicans and Catholics alike. With the country also at war with the French and Dutch, paranoid xenophobia – a familiar English trait of the period – was rife.
…for years there had been warnings of London’s total destruction by fire…
Fires in London were common, even inevitable, given the capital’s largely timber construction. Yet for years there had been warnings of London’s total destruction by fire: in 1559 Daniel Baker had predicted London’s destruction by ‘a consuming fire’. In April 1665, Charles had warned the Lord Mayor of London of the danger caused by the narrow streets and overhanging timber houses. Furthermore, a long, hot summer had left London dry and drought had depleted water reserves.
Yet the greatest fear among Londoners was not fire. Plague had killed over 68,000 people in the previous two years. Although Charles II had returned to Whitehall in February 1666, London remained unsafe, with death carts still commonplace. What worried inhabitants most was the strong east wind. This, combined with the dry, dusty air, was known to be particularly effective in carrying plague. It would prove as equally efficient as fire in taking lives.