That lines up with what I've been catching about Wednesday, that it's a mixed bag. I have a friend who was dying to see it, and when I asked her about it she said they were but moved on to talking about Andor.

The series from the start has shown a rather unbecoming light on royalty and in particular the institution of royalty. Showing how toxic it truly is, and in part, unnecessary. And again, as I asked above, I wonder what it says about us as a society - that we continue to feel the need to maintain it, worship it, and romanticize it?

I do wonder if we'll continue to do so in the next century. It seems to me an ancient holdover symbolizing wealth and power and the highest social strata. I think at this point more royals are leaving their titles and duties behind. It doesn't seem like much a tradeoff unless you're the king or queen yourself, in which case you still have some influence, but not much.