Throughout his regency, Margaret continued to be a force. So Margaret and Elizabeth started building support among the nobility, there was a war, Henry Tudor killed Richard in battle and married Elizabeth and started the Tudor dynasty. But that didn't stop Elizabeth and Margaret, because hey, they were pretty sick of men at this point. Now Henry had a pretty weak claim to the throne, through the generally unrecognized matrilineal line. To start an uprising that would seat Margaret's son Henry as King and then he would marry Elizabeth's daughter, Elizabeth York, and make her queen. The two ladies both hated Richard, for good reason, and made a deal. This infuriated Margaret, who then managed to get a position as lady in waiting to Elizabeth Woodville, mother of "the princes in the tower" who it is thought were killed by Richard the III so he would be next in line. She married twice more and her husband and the king Richard III made a deal that Richard III passed a law that a woman's properties pass to her husband, not her children from previous marriage. Now this whole thing of being able to pass her father's property on to her own offspring was hugely important to her. Then at 12 she gave birth to Henry Tudor and her husband died. He was captured and died and Margaret inherited all his properties. Before she was born, her own father was asked by the king to go into battle and he agreed, but only with the king's promise that if he perished, his properties would go to his unborn child whatever gender it was born. I would argue that she was one of the most influential women in history. If you want high production values and beautiful costumes then you may want to pass. If your interest is in the period I would say it's worth watching. I think if you are younger or don't have english relatives then the acting in UpDown might seem really fake, but it's actually how people were! But I can distinctly remember some of my older english relatives being the same. In UpDown, the lady of the household has a way of holding herself and speaking that seems awkward and a bit annoying. One example is that Julian Fellows has said that in Downton, they deliberately chose not to be authentic in things like tone of voice because it would be too annoying to a modern audience. Like some of the ways people did things in the Updown era would still be the way that elder people said things and the actors would know that. I find UpDown interesting to watch and compare to Downton because it's closer to the period in history that it represents and in some ways is a bit more accurate. Downton Abbey clearly lifted a lot of characters and relationships from Upstairs Downstairs but benefited from a huge budget and better costumes, larger cast, and being in a real location rather than having been shot on a set. I just started watching it recently and am on season 3. If he was handed the wrong type of prop gun, or one loaded the wrong way, then a projectile still could have come out as fast as a bullet and hit whoever was in front of him. That sounds like they were filming a shot of Alec discharging a gun towards the camera. In this case, the person who was died was the director of photography and the injured was the film director. This is in Vancouver so I don't know if it's the same rules in the US, but at any rate prop guns are considered to be as potentially dangerous as real guns. The prop guns are always treated like real guns because it would be so easy to have an accident. From what I've been told through firearms experts I used to work with (who also worked industry) there is supposed to be one firearms expert in charge of prop guns and keeps everything straight, hands it to the actor and takes custody of the firearm as soon as the scene is done. There are different types of prop guns and types of things put in them, depending on the desired visual or sound affect.