The Tudors

tiggerblue10 | 15:40 Sun 20th Feb 2011 | Film, Media & TV

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I thought last nights episode was brilliantly directed, produced and acted. And also a lot of it was factually correct for a change. What do other fans think?

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tastymorsel

Damn has it started again? I missed it.What side and time please?

tiggerblue10

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You've missed quite a few episodes Tasty. Saturday, BBC2 10pm.

DTCwordfan

pretty gruesome - especially the red hot poker bit but then it was like that back then. Hung drawn and quartered, very nice.

If you are into these sort of things and how society worked (sex, religion, politics, church, food, judiciary and punishments, etc) 1215 by Danziger is a brilliant read.... 1215 I am sure you realise is the date of Magna Carta.

Imagine being at Berkeley Castle and having a red hot poker up your jacksey as Edward II was rumoured to have 'experienced' for his death in 1327.

DTCwordfan

was that the last one or are they covering Katherine Parr. She was born in my home town, Kendal - she could be a relative of one of the town's luminaries, David Starkey.......?

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DTCwordfan

Edward VI could be quite interesting as personally don't know as much about him as the other two - possibly because his reign was mainly through the Regency Council being only 9 when he came to the throne. Am interested to see if they explore the machinations and devious antics of his uncle Ed Semour (1st D. of Somerset) and John Dudley (1st D of Northumberland) who effectively kept him in check as he hit 'maturity' - though E VI was the one who cemented Protestantism into England,being devout and interested in the divine matters, and more than the havoc of economic and social unrest that was besetting the country (parallels to today?)

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Yes it was pretty gruesome. I can't imagine how these people must have felt knowing what their fate was.

1215 sounds quite interesting DT. I read a book about the She-Wolf of France, that was very interesting.

bld767

Very good programme last night - I didn't realise that when people were hung drawn and quartered that they were actually only half hung, so to speak, and were still alive when drawn and quartered. I saw something years ago when I was quite small about Edward VII, being spitted with a red hot poker, and had nightmares about that for at least a week afterwards! I think one of the most shocking bits last night was when Catherine being taken to the Tower, and the 2 heads on sticks were in the entrance.

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It is quite frightening bld. The fact that it happened in real life is quite hard to comprehend. Beheadings still occur today in a few countries like Saudi Arabia.

It was Edward II that was allegedly red-hot pokered and not Edward VII. Edward VII was Q. Victoria's son.

DTCwordfan

Danziger also co-authored a similar book on 1066 but that is a much thinner tome in content, partly because the history was much thinner as to being recorded. 1215 is a good interesting read - and also will have you questioning some of the global warming blah in that they were consistently growing Bordeaux style wines as far north as Bedford and white vineyards in Scotland (i.e. 3 degrees C warmer then than today). English drinking was primarily wine and only became grain based as they moved into the Renaissance era.

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Am loving the series and I agree that last night's episode was quite brilliantly done.
I have enjoyed all the series. I know it's not historically accurate but who cares....it's entertainment not a documentary. The makers never claimed accuracy. And as for Jonathon Rhys Meyers being too young and slim, personally I prefer to see him looking good rather than having make up age him 20 years or so and wearing a fat suit!

tiggerblue10

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JRM and Henry Cavill are both gorgeous so its an added bonus watching it. Looks like it may be the last series unless they start a new one with Edward VI.

DTCwordfan

well the one thing with the Tudors there was enough planning, plotting and dastardly acts to make Machivelli pale and tremble.

DTCwordfan

so plenty of fertile material for the producers to play on!

tiggerblue10

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I think the Tudor era was probably the most interesting period in British/English history. Henry with his six wives and Elizabeth with her shrewdness and brilliance.