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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 03:15 PM Original message |
Okay, English history geeks: watching "The Tudors" and NOT lovin it! |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. I, too, have been pretty unhappy with the historical inaccuracies |
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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 03:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. And this is the first period of English history anyone learns about |
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tpsbmam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 03:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Liked this version so much I bought the DVD |
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Darth_Kitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 06:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Yes, riddled with historical inaccuracies galore, plus the Tudors have been done to death..... |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
2. Try the Monty Python version |
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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 03:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Those guys ALWAYS got the history right! |
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Oeditpus Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 05:32 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. They were particular about a lotta stuff, yup |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
4. I was disappointed that Steve Waddington, cast as te Duke of Buckingham, was not instead |
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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 03:38 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. totally agree! n/t |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Tidbit: Waddington played Edward II in a movie some years ago, the in Tudors played the |
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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 03:49 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. wasn't Edward II the one who died so ignominiously at Pontrefact Castle? |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 03:52 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Correcto. |
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tpsbmam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 04:11 PM Response to Original message |
11. My recollection of the sequence of events was rusty |
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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 04:19 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Thanx for the clarification. The timing was what I wasn't too sure of |
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tpsbmam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 07:02 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. I think Wolsey and Henry's relationship at the time |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
13. It's J R-M; that's all it needs for me to love it! (And I taught the subject!) |
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supernova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-02-08 05:38 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Same here. |
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