Well, the script is by Geoff, while Holland Smith drew and inked this fellow, so I’m just sort of sitting down here today observing.
So, I suppose I’ll talk a bit about Peter the Great and Frederick the Great. They actually had remarkably similar lives after a fashion.
Both spent their youths dicking around more or less ignoring their princely duties until a tragic event slapped them into comparative responsibility (for Frederick, being forced to watch the execution of his friend von Katte, for Peter watching the Streltsy literally tear his friends and advisors apart with their bare hands).
Both inherited relatively second/third tier countries with a reputation for inelegance and brutishness.
Both rushed into war early in their reigns, embroiling their countries in decades of ludicrously unnecessary conflict.
Both miraculously emerged victorious against long odds from those wars to become respected and feared members of the European community.
Both were tireless administrators who, frustrated with the pettiness and inefficiency of royal bureaucracy, handled every last detail of their lands personally. Of course, Frederick’s idea of a good time was playing the flute, whereas Peter preferred hammering out iron bars with his bare hands. Still, similarities there are, all the same…
– Count Dolby von Luckner
Really, how would compound interest work for time travellers? Especially for Frederick who is trying to fix a highly unstable timeline. I would imagine if he ever tried to get to a spacetime location downstream of any account he opened, it would be in a timeline where banks didn’t exist or the Romans were still running things and had banned all usury. And how would interest accrue in a stasis-year?
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– Geoff and The Count
I feel like we totally missed a joke in this episode involving some play on John Layfield and John Layfield. Perhaps in the future.