Is Barsine secretly married to Alexander... - Page 7

Originally posted by: inlieu

Jealous? Not sure that's the word I would use just yet. Roxanne doesn't want to lose her standing in his life. Is she in love with her husband? I think not. She just wants to protect her self-interests and is only concerned that another woman like Barsine, who has all the royal qualities that she does not, will actually win her husband over and become his favorite. Reminds me a bit of the Ruqayya in the Jodha Akbar show.

@luckysnow, you have a good point, that Alexander said he would do something to ensure his control over Faras stays intact. But Roxanne would have known about the marriage, right? Or do you mean the CVs are again playing around with the timelines and will show that Alexander married Barsine before Roxanne? Jeez.

Any raakhi Roxanne ties will be for selfish motives or for political games, nothing to do with her sentiments. She doesn't care about anyone except herself. The real Roxanne was apparently quite interested in learning about Indian customs, so maybe the Sony one will learn about the concept of rakshabandhan (as we saw her picking up a local custom in the pranaam scene) and come up with a plan of her own to tie a rakhi on Porus. I can only see Sony Roxanne doing this to spite Alexander and not because she's concerned about his safety. I also can't see Sony Alexander accepting his wife pleading with his now arch enemy to save his life. Not now, not ever. For he is bound to find out if such a thing occurs. I remember clearly what he said to Olympias after finding out what she did to Arrhidaeus. He didn't want the world to think that he won through deceit and that he himself was not powerful or smart enough to win fair and square. I don't think that spirit of his has changed since.

Olympias doesn't seem interested in going back to Macedonia. She's now just as curious as we are about what her son is up to. 😆 Frankly, even though I hate that the CVs are showing her in Bharat, at this point I would much prefer even a one-minute sequence of hers to any amount of screen time involving either Roxanne or Barsine. 😡

What am I most irritated about right now, though, is the lack of interaction between Hephaestion and Alexander. Yes, a lot of things on this show happen offscreen but please CVs, we want to see how Hephaestion feels and his private conversations with his friend Alexander and not his Shah Alexander. After coming to the ends of the Earth with him, how does Hephaestion assess the current situation?

Originally posted by: inlieu

I don't want Laachi to die, at least not until the final battle. So far Dasyu Rani and she have been the only decent practical female figures in the show, Olympias notwithstanding, of course!

Also, what happened to Ambhiraj's wife? She hasn't appeared for a while now. Could she be the assassin? Though, what reason would she have to hate Porus? 😆

Originally posted by: inlieu

@luckysnow, if Roxanne was indeed as per the accounts you've cited, then Alexander The Great provided humanity the biggest proof that love is indeed blind. 😆