The Tudors

[shipperx]

Okay, over at my mother's for Easter dinner and her FauxVo has flipped out in that "oh I wish it could happen to me!" way of suddenly she has every premium channel. So, taking advantage, I went to the OnDemand and watched the first episode of "The Tudors" and kind of disliked it a lot. I can live with historical inacuracy, but does it have to be quite so in-your-face about it? I swear all these castles look both warm and clean. The streets look clean. The hair looks clean with 2007 haircuts and hair coloring. The makeup on the women is impeccable. Really, can't they make just a little effort to make the historical look historical? Just a tiny bit? That, and the plot didn't seem that interesting to me, albeit Henry VIII seemed just as much a jackass as one would suspect. Rome was as historically hinky as you could get, but it was interesting. This one... not so much. (And I'm someone who loves yearing Tudor history by historians so I have a pretty high standard before calling something boring).

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

Nods. I saw the first two episodes through the Net and it was dull and inaccurate. And IMO it's pretty hard to make Henry VIII dull.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

But extraordinarily easy to make him an asshole. :)

[nmissi.livejournal.com]

Now see, I LOVED the two eps of "The Tudors" that I've seen so far. But I sort of watch with my romance-novel mindset on. So the inaccuracies don't bother me too much. My only problem is I cannot see Henry in the actor they've cast, at all. He's pretty in all the wrong ways.

Stone castles could have been warm, I suppose. Plenty of peons to keep the fireplaces going at all times, anyway. And lord knows the inhabitants had layered dressing down pat.

Still haven't seen "Rome," but I plan to. Everyone's gushing is making me feel bad to be left out. ;)

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm just too used to Masterpiece Theater. I actually preferred the Henry VIII they had last year (though I had my fair share of quibbles about that one.) My favorite remains the Anne Marie Duff version of Elizabeth the Virgin Queen. (See icon)

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm profoundly disappointed with The Tudors.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I found it somewhat uninspiring.