We’ve got pirates, sex workers, ninja, soldiers, and now…Joan of Arc? I was admittedly hoping that what I could see of the French in the order book would not turn out to say “La pucelle d’Orléans,” but it absolutely did, and that raises some thematic questions. Mostly that’s because The Maid of Orléans still died at the stake in 1431 in Fena’s version of the world, so commissioning the strange, clear stone in 1436 is definitely enough to raise collective eyebrows when the group discovers it. But when Fena mentions that she’s heard the name “la pucelle” before, possibly in reference to herself, and then we flash to the man who’s absolutely going to turn out to be related to her gazing at a portrait of a woman in 17th or early 18th-century dress and calling her the same thing – well, that calls into question whether or not anyone working on the show actually knows…
