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Tudors: Final Season (4)

Lady EriLady Eri Registered User
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So that other series on Showtime, besides Dexter and Weeds. Final season started last Sunday and I just got around to watching it. If you haven't gotten into it, Showtime has seasons 1 through 3 showing right now (kind of like what they did with the Summer of Dexter before the most recent season aired.) Lots of intrigue, great sets, lots of sex.

So as for the end of season 3 and the start of season 4:
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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    so how far does this intentionally veer from history for the sake of storytelling

    i don't mean thing like quiet anachronisms

    i mean like

    this guy dies but in real life he didn't?

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User
    Pony wrote: »
    so how far does this intentionally veer from history for the sake of storytelling

    i don't mean thing like quiet anachronisms

    i mean like

    this guy dies but in real life he didn't?

    I think once or twice. I mean it certainly hangs to the spirit of it all. I doubt the real King Henry was this sexy either.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    Lady Eri wrote: »
    Pony wrote: »
    so how far does this intentionally veer from history for the sake of storytelling

    i don't mean thing like quiet anachronisms

    i mean like

    this guy dies but in real life he didn't?

    I think once or twice. I mean it certainly hangs to the spirit of it all. I doubt the real King Henry was this sexy either.

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    (i know that is george the iv not henry but whatever)

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  • LucidLucid Registered User regular
    I'm catching up on season 3. May just go onto the 4th while I'm watching it.

    I did feel bad for Cromwell even though he was a bastard in many ways.

    It's too bad they won't be continuing on to the stories of his daughters. I know there's the Elizabeth movies but there's more they could tell.

    "...these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into"

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User
    I would think more people here would like great shows. I am going to go ahead and demerit everyone who watches SG:U but doesn't watch this. Tomorrow we will be demeriting the fan base of another terrible show.

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User
    Colpeper is so handsome. I wants him.

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  • DJ Cam CamDJ Cam Cam Registered User regular
    Lady Eri wrote: »
    I would think more people here would like great shows. I am going to go ahead and demerit everyone who watches SG:U but doesn't watch this. Tomorrow we will be demeriting the fan base of another terrible show.

    Ha I made a Tudors thread a few weeks ago, and it sank like a rock. This season has been good so far but I am hoping you know who will be dead next week.

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  • Lady EriLady Eri Registered User
    No one will be dead. They will all live happily ever after. With the executioners.

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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    sex scenes, you say

    lots of them, you say

    *brb*

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  • themightypuckthemightypuck Registered User regular
    I recall the first season seeming pretty close to a non-expert's (me) notion of events. Also, I recall hearing Henry VIII was supposed to be athletic and handsome until he took a fall off a horse during a joust after which he became increasingly fat (until at some point he needed to be carried about).

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  • PicardathonPicardathon Registered User
    themightypuck wrote: »
    I recall the first season seeming pretty close to a non-expert's (me) notion of events. Also, I recall hearing Henry VIII was supposed to be athletic and handsome until he took a fall off a horse during a joust after which he became increasingly fat (until at some point he needed to be carried about).

    Syphilis didn't help.

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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    ok i got the first season

    what episodes have the best fights and fucking

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  • DJ Cam CamDJ Cam Cam Registered User regular
    I think about ever episode has some dirty sex in it. Fights I can't recall.

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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    i have been watching pretty compulsively

    i am on episode 8, now

    I AM SATISFIED WITH THIS SHOW AND APPRECIATE THE RECOMMENDATION THANK YOU

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  • CadeCade Registered User regular
    themightypuck wrote: »
    I recall the first season seeming pretty close to a non-expert's (me) notion of events. Also, I recall hearing Henry VIII was supposed to be athletic and handsome until he took a fall off a horse during a joust after which he became increasingly fat (until at some point he needed to be carried about).

    Pretty much.

    To quote Hirst who made the show: "Showtime commissioned me to write an entertainment, a soap opera, and not history ... And we wanted people to watch it."

    For instance:
    Time is conflated in the series, giving the impression that things happened closer together than they actually did or along a different timeline. For example King Henry VIII ascended to the throne in April 1509 and married Catherine in June 1509 both before his 18th birthday. His marriage to Anne Boleyn did not occur until 1533 some 24 years later and by which time Henry was 42 years old. In The Tudors, the two are cast younger (and seemingly closer in age) and the courtship lasts about ten episodes.

    This was how Henry VIII looked:
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  • OrganichuOrganichu Registered User regular
    the sister jane is hot

    anne boleyn is hot

    charles brandon is hot

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  • PicardathonPicardathon Registered User
    Organichu wrote: »
    the sister jane is hot

    anne boleyn is hot

    charles brandon is hot

    I think you've got the idea there, dude

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  • DJ Cam CamDJ Cam Cam Registered User regular
    Cade wrote: »
    themightypuck wrote: »
    I recall the first season seeming pretty close to a non-expert's (me) notion of events. Also, I recall hearing Henry VIII was supposed to be athletic and handsome until he took a fall off a horse during a joust after which he became increasingly fat (until at some point he needed to be carried about).

    Pretty much.

    To quote Hirst who made the show: "Showtime commissioned me to write an entertainment, a soap opera, and not history ... And we wanted people to watch it."

    For instance:
    Time is conflated in the series, giving the impression that things happened closer together than they actually did or along a different timeline. For example King Henry VIII ascended to the throne in April 1509 and married Catherine in June 1509 both before his 18th birthday. His marriage to Anne Boleyn did not occur until 1533 some 24 years later and by which time Henry was 42 years old. In The Tudors, the two are cast younger (and seemingly closer in age) and the courtship lasts about ten episodes.

    This was how Henry VIII looked:
    210px-Henry-VIII-kingofengland_1491-1547.jpg

    I bet he looked worse then that. The artist prolly had to use photoshop on his painting of royalty

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  • DarkCrawlerDarkCrawler Registered User
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    Good show though.

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