BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!

Subject: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 06:20 AM

I think we have 4 in tonight's episode!

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 07:44 AM

I know, I didn't dare watch it.

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 08:07 AM

Ah, I'm wrong it was last night. We'll watch it over dinner today!!

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Maryrrf
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 09:26 AM

I wish this series would come on in the USA! I want to see it!

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 11:20 AM

Poor little Catherine Howard! The episode I watched last night was excellent, but of course you have to accept that it's a 21st Century take and not necessarily historically accurate. It did depict in gruesome detail the barbarism of the Tudor Age, torture, incarceration and public execution. I enjoyed it, but had to then go to bed a bit traumatised!

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 01:33 PM

Have you come across this novel called Wolf Hall? About Thomas Cromwell.

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: michaelr
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 02:50 PM

Maryrrf - it's been shown in the US on Showtime (which produced it) between 2007 and 2010. It is now available on DVD.

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Maryrrf
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 04:35 PM

I don't get showtime, and my DVD player is out of order - but, I'll find a way to see it. I love historical dramas!

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 05:14 PM

Just last night I watched the 1999 film, Anne of the Thousand Days, with Richard Burton and lots of other big names. I realized after a few minutes that I'd seen it before, but still well worth while.

The reason I post this is that I fairly recently read that novel about Thomas Cromwell, Wolf Hall, (excellent, by the way), and found the picture painted of him in the film and that in the novel are widely at variance.

Both good reading or watching.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 05:19 PM

"Just last night I watched the 1999 film, Anne of the Thousand Days, with Richard Burton"

A slip of the finger I think, it was made in 1969!

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: alanabit
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 06:37 AM

Considering Richard Burton's slight career setback on August 5, 1984, I think your ammendment makes sense!

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 10:24 AM

I can only plead age-related dementia, I guess.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 10:37 AM

Not at all, as we type faster anything is possible!

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Becca72
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 09:39 AM

Mary,
It's available through Netflix...you may want to check and see if it's available to watch online via them.

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 10:03 AM

How come 'Enery is still a svelte young chap in The Tudors - shouldn't he be about 400 pounds with a chronic leg ulcer by now? Actually I thought the best Henry VIII ever was Robert Shaw in "A Man For All Seasons", charismatic but jolly frightening. (If you leave out Charles Laughton hurling chicken bones over his shoulder, that is).

Re the wives, I'm sure I remember a cartoon in Private Eye around 1969, subject "Anne of a Thousand Blokes"!

Alan, yes have read "Wolf Hall", very good indeed, but I found myself having to take Thomas Cromwell and Wolsey as good guys with a LARGE pinch of salt. Hilary Mantel's excellent, her novel "A Place of Greater Safety" about the French Revolution (Danton, Robespierre, Desmoulins) is another good 'un.

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Acorn4
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 10:20 AM

I think Keith Michell probably the best Henry ever. Think the current actor would be better as a Dr Who personally. Afraid Katherine Howard a bit too much like Miranda Richardson in "Blackadder".

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: GUEST,Alan whittle
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 10:53 AM

I thought Sid james was best

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 11:08 AM

?? This series has been running here..(Wash DC area),, on one channel for several months...with repeats.

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 01:26 PM

I thought that they might have at least wiped the block clean for Catherine Howard!

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 02:17 PM

I believe that the Queen died first, followed by Lady Rochester, her chief Lady-In-Waiting. Both were quite brave at the end, according to eye-witness accounts. By this time, Henry was grossly overweight and carried everywhere by attendants, as his ulcerous leg and great size made walking impossible. He also stank, as the ulcer continually suppurated.

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Don Firth
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 08:12 PM

Yeah, I have to put in a vote for Keith Michell also. He played Henry VIII all the way from a young man, pre-Catherine of Aragon all the way to "that diseased bag of guts we call our king."

Superb series. That, and "Elizabeth R."

I just discovered "The Tudors" running on the CBC channel I can get on cable. I wish PBS would run it. From the beginning!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 06:10 AM

I find the stories of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R both fasinating whoever takes the role. With the treachery and barbarism why anyone would have wanted to be in such close proximity to the royals back then is beyond me. The young man in the new series as the young Enery is quite plausible although there appears to be some aging delay as the young king, maybe they were trying to get away from the chicken leg eating king so often portrayed in movies! But as the older king Keith Mitchell is the best aging festering Enery.

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 03:54 PM

I thought this thread was going to be about vigilantes in a part of Kingston-upon-Thames!

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 08:44 PM

I have seen every episode. The show is addicting with or without all the soft porn.

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: LadyJean
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 08:48 PM

I've seen a few episodes, and the only thing those dipsticks get right are the gory executions!

Subject: RE: BS: Executions start in The Tudors!!
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 05:44 AM

I still think Sid James gave the homicidal bastard just the right degree of reverence. The man was a stinker.

As for this latest bloke - if Holbein could have made him look that good, he would have done. I'm sure he flattered him as much as he could. But from his early twenties, henry must have been a great bloated chubber with gangrene on his nadgers. Hansome is as handsome does.