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The premise of the new Prime seriesMy Lady Janeis both straightforward and simple to explain.
Next, what if instead of being just the story of Lady Jane, it was an alternate history?
A little trickier to grasp in an elevator pitch, but okay!
Lady Jane Grey alternate history.
Also,there are shape-shifters.
and proceeds to offer a brisk, 70-second overview of the whole shape-shifting deal.
Theyre called Ethians, they realize they can shape-shift during puberty, theyre being hunted to extinction, etc.
You get the gist.
(Again, there is a narrator.)
Theyre a shape-shiftertoo?!
Whynotdo overly familiar historical events with shape-shifters this time?
The Salem witch trials with shape-shifters is too obvious, but what about the first Continental Congress?
(Imagine the Founders signing an alternate version with their little paws dipped in ink!)
Or what about Fleet Street and the rise of daily newspapers in London but with shape-shifters!
Jeeves and Wooster but shape-shifters!
High-seas adventurers onboard a Barbary pirate ship …and theyre shape-shifters.
It works for everything.
TVloves a historical setting right now, and sometimes the reasons are boring.
Why not add shape-shifters?
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