Ok, this may be a long rant, and it is so unrelated to my everyday life, but....I've been watching the Showtime series "The Tudors" in installments on Youtube over the last couple of days and can I just ask, WHAT WERE THESE PEOPLE ON WHEN THEY MADE THIS MOVIE?????? God knows I've never been a Henry fan, I think he was a spoiled and neurotic man with a deep-seated inferiority complex, daddy issues, and a touch of homicidal mania to boot, but even he does not deserve the inane stupidity that is this miniseries. Number one, this may be superficial and irrelevant, but we do have some idea of what these people looked like. They belonged to a social class that could afford to have their portraits painted often, not to mention those Early Modern versions of Perez Hilton, the ambassadors from other countries who liked to write home about the various quirks and foibles of those crazy English, so we can at least have a vaguely accurate idea of personal appearance from visual and textual accounts. So what were they thinking when they casted short, dark, slightly weaselly Jonathan Rhys Myers? Henry was (it is a FACT) over 6' tall with the distinctive Plantagenet reddish-blond hair so famously inherited by his vastly superior daughter Elizabeth. Also Thomas More is portrayed as a sincere and holy man who entertains no thoughts of irony whatever whilst writing "Utopia". Did they READ "Utopia"? Who am I kidding, probably not. And then, apparently the filmmakers thought that we, the viewers, are too dumb to handle the fact that there were TWO Tudor sisters, Margaret and Mary, (Margaret who was Queen of Scotland and Mary who was briefly Queen of France before her marriage to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk) so instead they give us ONE Tudor sister, named Margaret but based on Mary, and they have her marry the Really Old King of Portugal (Portugal??? Where did this random country come from???) and, unable to bear the thought of just waiting till the old guy is dead, which looks to be soon, she smothers him with a pillow.
WTF???????????????
We will not be watching episodes 5 & 6.
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Hmmm, I shall make a point to NOT seek out this series.
Yeah, do yourself a favor and don't. I just get very worked up when I think about all the innocent people whose views on history will be distorted when they see completely dumb stuff like this. I'm a nerd that way. And they're doing another season...heaven preserve us.
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