Headscratchers / The Nevers

• How does Myrtle's sentence structure work when she's flipping between languages mid sentence? Does she use English structure but the words are swapped, or does the structure change along with the language leaving her sentences a mess in words and order?
  • Evidently there’s consistent structure, since a gang of people who spoke different languages were able to piece it together one word at a time. Based on the translation and what we say of its progress, probably English structure.
• Prince Albert was a patron and enthusiast of the sciences, and realistically he would have been all over this phenomenon.
  • Possible, however as noted the majority getting the "gifts" where women and persons of color. His reaction is somewhat realistic as while a man of science he is a man of high birth subject to the prejudices and social attitudes of the Victorian age.
    • We haven't seen his reaction, he hasn't been in it, that's the complaint. There's no way he would simply not be interested. And he was a friend of Ada Lovelace (the inventor of computing) and anti-slavery activist.
    • While we have not seen his reaction he is a Prince and beholden to the title and duties. As well as an nobleman of proper breeding. Logically a) as a royal, etiquette would not allow him to voice any opinion that would seem "embarrassing" to the crown so would not voice his opinion publicly or officially. Also b) being against slavery doesn't mean you would automatically favor minorities and women gaining advantage over their betters or threaten established British society due to their newly powered status. More realistically maybe the showrunners don't want to have a member of the royal family portrayed as some sort of bigot.
    • Or they haven't done enough research to know he'd be investigating this stuff (and would be interested in Penance's inventions in particular) and assume Prince Albert was a stereotypical stuffy nobleman.
    • Or seeing that the show is set after the Nevers get empowered in 1896, the showrunners having done enough research to know that Prince Albert died in 1861. Decided not to include him in the series.
    • Dang, I assumed he was still alive. But that's in part because of this odd reference in "Hanged" that the German guy in Lord Massen's council makes to "my cousin, His Majesty the King", which is interrupted by "Oh, yes, please remind us again who your cousin is", present tense. Which sounded like a reference to Albert, either by the writers not realizing he was never called "King" at Parliament's vehement insistence or by a German calling him that to inflate his importance in politics. And looking at the dates, it's 1899, before Edward VII ascended the throne in 1901, and the queen has been referred to, so Edward/Bertie wouldn't be the cousin in question. Nor would the ruler of Germany, since that was a kaiser.