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#1 Post by fantine33 » Sat Mar 22, 2008 12:54 pm

I finally finished watching the DVDs in preparation for Season Two next week. And I'm too lazy to go back and find the old post where I was supposed to update.

Well, since it took me this long to slog through a mere 10 episodes, obviously I wasn't that transfixed with them. I think I'll probably manage to catch the hour sometime during the week, but I don't think it will be the "I have to catch the FIRST showing" each week like I was with Dexter.

I have a lot of books on Anne Boleyn, Catharine Howard and Queen Mary (and, obviously Fraser's Six Wives) but they are still packed from my move (yes, it's been over 4 years, what's your point?). I need to dig them out because either I've forgotten a lot or they are exceptionally fast and loose with history, even moreso than Rome, and that's going some.

I'm not one to be really hung up on historical inaccuracies. I get it, some things are unwieldy, some aren't necessary and some are just boring, but I don't think it would take that much extra time to give Henry both of his sisters. And Wolsey telling More to loosen up because he's not a saint. Hardy har har.

And since when was Thomas Tallis gay? If wintergreen is reading this, I'm sure he can tell me all about that.

I like Anne Boleyn, but Rhys-Meyers just doesn't do it for me as Henry. He's too scrawny and heroin chic. And, wow, Gabriella Anwar did not age so well. They needed Isabelle Adjani in there, she's like 187 and still looks a luminous 32.

One reason I'm kind of excited about Season Two. I'm thinking this is common knowledge, but just in case some don't read up on what's coming because they like to be surprised:
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Peter O'Toole is showing up as Pope P3! YAY!!!!11

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#2 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:11 pm

It really bothered me that they made Henry VIII's two sisters Mary and Margaret into one character, Margaret, and had her married to the wrong person instead of Louis XII (Mary) or James IV (Margaret).

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#3 Post by Bob Juch » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:58 pm

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:It really bothered me that they made Henry VIII's two sisters Mary and Margaret into one character, Margaret, and had her married to the wrong person instead of Louis XII (Mary) or James IV (Margaret).
Since these folks are family, it really bothers me when they do things like that!
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