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This is a good documentary. Just not a brilliant one. It has high production values & is a compelling watch, but don't go looking for answers, as you wont find any here.

My great, great grandmother was married to someone who died on the Titanic, so I have always had that connection to it. Family members would drum the story into me as a child & 50 years later when the Titan disaster happened all I felt was a deep sadness. My motive for watching this was to find out more about the infamous Stockton Rush & what drove him. Rush, the chiselled jawed, highly privileged & very rich entrepreneur behind Ocean Gate appears to be an intelligent man, yet why would he ignore warning signs & risk peoples lives? I guess smart people do stupid things too! Sir Isaac Newton who some regard as the world greatest genius, spent 40 years practicing the utterly useless art of alchemy. Yet Rush was something darker, as this documentary showed me. He wanted to be a Bezo's or Musk of the oceans, yet appeared to be intensely jealous of those men, calling them childish names. He would fire anyone who crossed him & had an explosive temper. But by far the most dangerous aspect of this man was his pure arrogance & complete disregard for rules. He said it would cost him nothing but $50,000 to ruin someone's life!" What he really did worse. He ended up ending the lives of 4 innocent people.

Some of what Rush says in the documentary is utterly shocking, but not surprizing when his employees said they were working for a narcissistic psychopath. What is also shocking is the cracking & popping noised of the hull of Titan at depth & the fact the "mission specialists" really tourists, who were sealed into this death trap from the outside with no escape!

This is a good documentary, with some unexpected, ultimate messages. The main one being that the Titanic site is a grave of 1,500 people & should now be left well alone. It is also ironic that the name of Stockton Rush is now next to the name of the designer of the Titanic, Thomas Andrews on a Wikipedia page called inventions that killed their inventors.

Give this one a watch. Just don't expect any answers though.

British royal history has been my passion for the past 40 years, so naturally I love anything like this & I have enjoyed Mr Jones work very much in the past, however this series, although quite engaging in parts, is a bit of a let down for many things, including accuracy. Firstly I enjoyed the historical enactments, although the costumes spoke more of Lord of the Rings as opposed to actual British history. The acting was good but the costumes lead a lot to be desired. Mr Jones narration is good also, but just occasionally he comes across as if he is giving his own version of events, rather than historically accurate ones. There is a fair amount of bias too which makes much of this series sound like his personal opinion. What really lets this series down is just how badly researched it was. For instance the events surrounding the poor Princes in the Tower. Jones states they were downed in a vat of wine, when it was the Princes uncle the Duke of Clarence (Father of Margaret Pole) who suffered this fate. To this day nobody knows what happened to those poor children imprisoned in the Tower of London & I was hoping to find some answers here, but not only are there no answers, it is as if Mr Jones is making it up as he goes along, which really lets this series down.

All in all old history hacks like me will find this series a rather irritating & frustrating ride. However, it is rather well made & apart from the lack of research, it has high production & entertainment values. If this series inspires the younger generation, & fires their interest in British royal history, then it has done a good job. Because British history today, the real version, has taken something of a battering by collectivists in the media establishment, which is so very sad. There are so many fascinating stories to tell, with strong moralistic warnings from centuries past. They are an education & we should learn from our ancestors, but there is a very fine line between reimagined collectivist myths & our genuine historical royal heritage.

Before I say anything I must let parents know that this is not a series I would show to anyone under 18. Yet it is rated a 14 years plus.

This could have been brilliant if the makers had followed the very witty book it is based on, which is really very good. But instead it is packed with adult themes, sex scenes & very bad language, where child actors have been scripted to say the "F" word, which is really not on. This all lets this series down, badly. This is sad because it has high production values, the acting is fine & the costumes are superb. However the comedy is dreadful. Comic timing is very off. The only comedy for me was when I laughed when it was revealed that Edward VI, was not the sickly son of ginger Henry VIII. He was a fit, handsome black man. Very funny! Also is it really fair (in the age of women & girls empowerment) to take the tragic story of an intelligent & educated young woman & to turn her murder into a comedy? The actress who played Jane was very good but far too old for the role. Lady Jane Grey was about 17. Something is missing somewhere?

Anyway, this is absolutely fine for late teens to about the age of 25. It is very much made for this age group! Young people will enjoy the silliness, & giggle at the adult themes, so My Lady Jane certainly has it's place. However, parents beware. This series has very strong adult themes that are not suitable to anyone under the age of 18 & the bad language comes thick & fast. Also avoid this if you are educated & love British history as this, for you, is a complete waste of your time & will insult your intelligence. Please watch "Lady Jane" 1986 instead.