Fun, but botches the history--and plot gaps often makes no sense.

Before anyone gets angry, I'll say that I'm enjoying it for what it is: fictionalized pseudo-history. (Yes, my redundancy is intentional.) Yet, what surprised me most was how one often feels important scenes have been left out. For example, neither Victoria nor Albert like one another, to say the least, and then they are suddenly in love and engaged. With Albert, this could be attributed to a robotic sense of duty. Yet, for Victoria, unlike the real-life events, this plot made zero sense as we finished the episode wondering "What changed her mind?"

I'm surprised the writers didn't borrow from the real Victoria and Albert and simply depict the raw libido that fueled their relationship, both before and after the marriage. (Victoria hated being pregnant and was mostly annoyed at having children to deal with.) Some of the pointless scenes of the episode could have been replaced by even just one passionate interaction that would have made sense of the proposal scene which was the obvious crescendo of the courtship.

So I'm curious, did anyone else wonder if they had somehow missed something? Did you wonder why the sudden total change of heart? Typical chick-flick rom-coms take an entire film to gradually turn the leading lady's contempt for the tactless, frustrating, expressionless, brooding man into True Everlasting Love™. But this Victoria episode appears to have skipped that process entirely.