The Tudors
Feb. 4th, 2008 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreI was very interested in the show when it first came out, then forgot about it. Probably because it's one of those half-season series or something so people weren't posting on it for very long. While my main interest in the family is Elizabeth I, who I view as almost the most awesome person ever born(a few biblical people trump her) I have a general interest in the period. Like most historical periods that interest me, I know enough that I can sigh over some blatantly wrong things, but won't throw popcorn at historical inaccuracies. Things that go against the behavioral and social mores of the time tend to stick in my craw more than who married who in what year or what day a battle was fought on, barring extremely major things(like, you know, if someone decided it would suit their story better for The Battle of Hastings to take place in the spring of 1066 and that Harold didn't die in the battle, just got a bad boo-boo...)
Anyway, it's on DVD now...
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Anyway, it's on DVD now...
[Poll #1133181]
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Date: 2008-02-05 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-02-05 04:18 am (UTC)(MSN later?)
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Date: 2008-02-05 04:21 am (UTC)(I should be on in about an hour. Will you be around?)
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Date: 2008-02-05 05:02 am (UTC)(I shall be on a little over an hour from now.)
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Date: 2008-02-05 04:13 am (UTC)IN MY MIND IT TOTALLY HAPPENED.
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Date: 2008-02-05 04:49 am (UTC)I watched mainly for Jeremy Northam's Sir Thomas More. If only he weren't going to get dead. (Of course, on this show there's always a possibility he might not, because it's just that history-defiling.)
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Date: 2008-02-05 05:04 am (UTC)*did not know about Jeremy Northam*
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Date: 2008-02-05 05:51 am (UTC)Do we see the HBO-rated parts(obsession with showing all has turned me off every HBO show I've tried)?
Do they at least occassionally fake a plot?
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Date: 2008-02-05 05:34 am (UTC)Elizabeth, bless her, had her faults, but she was twice the man her father was.
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Date: 2008-02-05 05:45 am (UTC)It's about the Lacey family, who live in Arnescote castle. Just before the war begins, the eldest daughter marries a Parliamentarian. She takes on her husband's loyalties while her family remain staunchly Royalist. You would strongly approve of her younger sister, Lucinda, who is courageous, intelligent and endlessly resourceful. She begins as a slightly petulant 15 year old and ends up a very strong woman. Another great character is the old herbwife, Minty, whose sharp tongue often gets her into trouble.
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Date: 2008-02-05 05:49 am (UTC)Has that series been put on DVD?
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Date: 2008-02-05 02:41 pm (UTC)My intention to watch a historical drama in place of Rome failed miserably in the face of my dislike for Jonathan Rhys-Meyers.
I've also not heard OMG MUST WATCH from many quarters.
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Date: 2008-02-05 04:04 pm (UTC)Sam Neill, too.
Why must it have actors I don't stumble across enough to suit me?
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Date: 2008-02-05 06:18 pm (UTC)I need not say more.
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Date: 2008-02-05 09:02 pm (UTC)I don't know whether it's true, but it's surprising how often these things are.