‘See’ Recap: ‘The Queen’s Speech’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode 207 of ‘See’.

​When we last settled in to discuss the wondrous Apple TV+ series, See, our magnificent heroes were facing quite the daunting task. In that, they were betrayed by Queen Kane because of her bloodlust for war and lack of care for her citizens. Which meant a showdown was on its way, one where Princess Maghra was going to have to deal with her sister’s treachery and outright madness and that was likely going to be no easy task. For Kane is as cunning as they come and is often several steps ahead of everyone else, leading audiences to believe that the next episode was going to be a harrowing fight to unseat her from power in a desperate last-ditch effort to save Pennsa from being utterly overrun by Edo Voss’ forces. 
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But as it turns out, the fight to save Pennsa and the Payan Kingdom from being left in tatters by Kane, was not quite the epic affair that we thought it was going to be. For the opening of ‘The Queen’s Speech’ informed us of the fact that Princess Maghra assembled a simple two-part process to remove her sister from power. The first step, was to simply announce her intention to take over the throne because a great deal of people in the kingdom weren’t fans of the queen, so being able to bid her farewell for a better leader was quite the appealing option. But she also took advantage of Kane’s ego. For she is a leader that cannot stand being exposed in a public setting and executing that two-pronged plan… allowed for Maghra to quickly ascend to the throne.

However, while it was wonderful to see a competent leader in charge of Pennsa at last, the new queen was unfortunately… surrounded by a bevy of crises. For the Trivantian army was on its way and already making strides in conquering nearby cities on their way to Pennsa. Which meant Maghra was forced to prepare for war, a decision that she outright struggled with. Because it meant that Baba Voss was going to leave home to fight, and her children as well. For the kingdom simply did not have enough soldiers to stand up to the forces Edo had mustered. But that certainly didn’t stop her from inspiring her people to do whatever it takes to stand tall in the face of adversity and fight with all their might for the future. 

But truly, those words may mean nothing in the end. For Edo is cunning and twisted and went after the new queen directly, shortly after the Pennsa army marched toward war. A stealthy move that forced Maghra to improvise and fight for her life like never before, and while she stood victorious, Lord Harlan may not survive the assault since he was gravely injured in trying to save his Queen. Plus, it turns out that Edo was able to assemble quite the assault force for certain. For in the closing moments of this tale, Baba Voss and Tamacti Jun came to learn that three hundred and fifty soldiers stood before them to fight, and despite Haniwa’s best efforts to work with Wren to broker peace, the arrows began to fly.

If anything, this was just an intense episode through and through. In part because, we simply didn’t know initially what Queen Kane would do with her back against the wall, but more so because… she truly put the kingdom into an utter mess. One that might see every man, woman and child in Pennsa die because of her madness and ignorance and well… now we have to wait another week to see how this final battle is going to end. But while we wait with bated breath, we can at least take comfort in the fact that Kane is finally off the throne and a competent leader resides in Pennsa and if by chance the battle ends well for Queen Maghra’s forces… then perhaps at long last, true peace and prosperity can come to this broken kingdom. Until next time.  

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