The Cracked Acorn: Regal Authority

I admit it.. I may watch too much TV, there’s not much on digital antenna programming. It was several weeks ago on channel CW a new program – The Outpost.

It is Sci-Fi and Fantasy, imported. The first episodes were good and I thought I was going to be addicted. I thought it worthy when the Queen of this land of yore had to convince the military that the reasonability she had inherited from her father was going to be of value.

They listened as Queen Rosmund sat on her horse and pledged herself to tasks of merit that would insure that freedom from harm to their families would be assured and that food and safety would always reign in her kingdom. ” I ask for your fidelity to what I am speaking of and that it will always be the first utmost in my mind for each and every one of you. How feel ye?”

It was one of those moments when all the Queen had said hung on the cusp of the morning fog. No one had ever taken the step forward to say such things! One of the front men dismounted and fell prostrated on the ground before the Queen; it was another and then another until a field of them lay before the Queen…they were saying that they choose to die for the Queen, if it so happened.

I missed several weeks because the writers tried to have other subplots to fill the hour. Last week I taped it and saw that the Queen had a visitor from the underworld. Anet ( an evil woman with pointed ears) sought an audience with the Queen. She was granted it and entered the  room where the Queen was on her throne. She had the crown and finery of absolute authority. The Queen made a motion for Anet  to approach but only within a few feet. Anet went into a speech of how she could bring forward powers that would insure the Queen to conquer all the surrounding enemy tribes. When Anet stepped forward the two armored men at her elbow brought her back, this happened a second time and the men grabbed her shoulders and brought her back, it was not to happen a third time as the Queen said, “Leave!” Anet’s wishes were never to happen.

This evil person’s temper was to be sated somehow, she hid in a corner of the courtyard until late evening when the Queen’s attending ladies came out, and one so young and favored by the Queen wandered over to a bunch of wild flowers and at a moment of admiration of the floral beauty , was daggered by Anet.

We now see Rosmund,the Queen in grief over the body of her friend. What will happen next? Will she seek revenge in some form; one in power must not let this go unnoticed. (I admit that I can’t wait to see what will happen.)

Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour –1 Peter 5:8