24th May, 2019
Yes: Theresa May, Britain’s PM, has officially announced that’s she’s going to be stepping down from the post: and that her resignation goes into effect from the 7th June.
To an extent?
I feel sorry for her. After all, she repeatedly tried to get a Brexit deal through that she felt would work for the UK.
Only to see it repeatedly thrown out by a House of Commons set against her.
Frankly?
I’m sympathetic.
Not that I’d be voting Tory because of it.
Not that I actually ever voted Tory.
Not that I’d be voting Tory because of it.
Not that I actually ever voted Tory.
But I am sympathetic, none the less.
My only question?
Will her successor call a general election when he or she gets into office?
I’d rather my Prime Minister be elected by the people of the UK: rather than a small group of MPs.
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At any rate … ?
At any rate, I have an excuse.
No, wait, not an excuse: an opt out … !
Yes: I can watch something that’s been sitting around in the collection for a while.
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Episode 4 — Tiempo de ilustrados /Time of the Enlightened — opens in the Prado museum: showing us a group of tourists admiring Goya’s La Maja desnuda.
One tourist lingers to photograph the painting … only to see it slashed …
By something unseen … in the modern day.
In a flashback to 1799, when Goya (Pedro Casablanc) painted it … ?
See what what happens: La Maja desnuda is getting itself attacked by unknown attackers …
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Back in the present … ?
Back in today, the Ministry’s been alerted to the fact La Maja desnuda’s been vandalised: and are determined to either stop the damaged.
Or to fix time the easy way.
Simply by asking Goya … to paint another copy …
Whilst wading through 18th century Spain’s court intrigues.
Betrayal, broken hearts, high drama …
And that’s just from the Ministry’s facial reconstruction expert, Diego Velázquez* (Julián Villagrán): when he finds out he isn’t going to meet Spain’s second best artist.
Are you getting the feeling there’s going to be issues … ?
You betcha!
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I swear, right now?
That my bed’s a calling.
But, right now?
I’ve come away from an episode of El Ministerio del Tiempo that’s both funny† and tense: creating both a sympathetic guest character — Goya, himself — and introducing the ultra conservative the Exterminating Angels‡ as intriguing set of villains.
Whether they’ll recur? I don’t know.
I’d like to see more, though.
Just as I’ll be lining up another episode of El Ministerio del Tiempo
* Velázquez is convinced he’s the only person capable of dealing with Spain’s second best artist. Spain’s second best artist, according to Velázquez? Is Dalí … Picasso … Goya … Is anyone other than Velázquez. Temperamental? Yep!
† Salvador’s line — “Whatever can go wrong, will get worse” — tickled me.
‡ They’re based on a real world order of Catholic fanatics.
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