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Fahye ([personal profile] fahye) wrote2010-10-16 10:12 pm
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Okay so I'm almost finished reading Wolf Hall

so I thought:

I will finally try watching The Tudors!


...


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Basically I have been Cromwell-brainwashed and now I'm a bit perplexed because somehow I am meant to take Jeremy Northam seriously as Thomas More The Benevolent And Admirable Person, and I am apparently supposed to...not like...Cardinal Wolsey? Whatever, Sam O'Neill is doing something really quite close to the Wolsey that Mantel portrays, so I am rooting for him the whole way. Wooooooo Wolsey! Kick some underhanded diplomatic butt!

Also, Thomas Tallis <3 and Katherine of Aragon <33 and Buckingham's delicious northern accent <333

All in all, this is hilarious trash dressed up in pretty clothes and I am merrily inserting my own politics between all the sex scenes.

(WHERE ARE YOU, CROMWELL, COME AND BE AWESOME ON MY SCREEN.)
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[identity profile] darthrami.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It's true - TOTAL trash, and TOTALLY pretty.
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[identity profile] ariastar.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god that is SO WONDERFUL, especially because the bits of The Tudors that I watched, I saw very shortly after reading A Man For All Seasons, so this More Good Wolsey Bad thing seemed Perfectly Reasonable. Your reaction is much better. :D

[identity profile] liminalliz.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
THE TUDORS IS AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING.
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[identity profile] nextian.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
HAHAHAH, OH NOOOO. And yet that is unbelievably hilarious. I should try rewatching the Tudors and pretending that Jeremy Northam is Wolf Hall's SlanderMore, I feel like it'd make the show a lot better.
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[identity profile] themis.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
James Frain is awesome as Cromwell, in a show seriously lacking good performances.

[identity profile] miladygrey.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I spent most of the time Jeremy Northam was onscreen crooning "Oh come on--sin a little! With me! I won't tell anyone!" Historical accuracy goes by the wayside when JN is there looking gently mournful and in need of cuddling. But Cromwell is indeed totally awesome.

I agree, this show is so hilariously terrible. Hilarrible, to steal from another friend. Just wait till Anne and Henry start really chewing scenery.

[identity profile] jadengreen36.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Total but verra interesting trash. Natalie Dormer is darkly ethereal. She and Jonthan Rhys Meyers have chemistry up the wazoo. Mind you, she could possibly have chemistry with a tree.
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I was a little confused after pages and pages of reading about Anne's ~dark eyes~ and Thomas Boleyn calling her eyes DARK HOOKS FOR THE SOUL when Dormer's eyes are... pale blue. But I am looking forward to seeing her flirt.
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[identity profile] fahye.livejournal.com 2010-10-16 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
The very existence of Charles 'Hotass' Brandon is HILARIOUS after Mantel's portrayal of a grumpy middle-aged man.
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