Now To Convince HBO
So, today was super boring. My manager was out sick (and thus not there to give me anything to do or find me anyone to shadow), the other new hire and I ran through all of our training packet material before lunch time, and you can only read so many product indexes on the company wiki before your brain starts to leak out your ears. I did my best to find useful ways to occupy myself, but I still ended up spending a lot of the afternoon texting back and forth with 
colourofsaying while trying to look like I was watching webinars about sales strategy.
Somehow during the course of this conversation we ended up plotting out an entire HBO series about the trial of the Templars. Not really sure how we got started on it, but seriously, it would FUCKING AMAZING.
The main character would be a French Templar of about 30 who had served at Acre/Outremer/Cyprus during the conflicts of the 1290s but was at the chapterhouse in Paris for the arrests in 1307. Sometime between 1307 and 1310 he confesses after being tortured, and after the executions in 1310 he's sent off to another order for his penitence - the framing device of the story would be his deathbed confession. There's plenty of focus on him and his crisis of faith in the order/the church and his survivor's guilt after confessing to heresy, but also major stories about the political conflict between Philip the Fair and Clement V, what James of Molay and the other Templar masters were up to, Hugh of Chalons and a few of the other knights that escaped the initial arrests, and some of the baby Templars.
William of Nogaret is the villain, because fuck William of Nogaret. (He's currently at the top of my list of Medieval Figures I Would Most Like to Punch in the Face. AND YES I HAVE A LIST.)
It would mostly be a political/historical drama, but it's HBO, of course it's also going to be full of sex. I desperately want a scene with Philip reading out his accusations of sodomy and indecent kissing by the Templars while he fucks a stable boy (I'm taking some historical license here, but not that much!). William of Nogaret is perving on everyone like a creepy fucker, including spying on a serving girl while jerking off and being ickily obsessed with hearing about all the torture the Templars suffered. Main Character Guy is...probably in love with someone. And the tiny bb!Templar he is mentoring will have a gay romance that starts in the flashbacks and continues while they are all in prison. (BB!Templar is going to die, but so is James of Molay and Philip and Clement and...basically everyone who isn't Main Character Guy. Fucking history, what can you do?)
The whole thing would be full of back-stabbing and political machinations and tragic sacrifices and secret arrests and wild denunciations in the middle of the papal court and paranoid conspiracies and torture and moral compromises in the face of horrible suffering and all the historical references a couple of medieval nerds can cram into a show. Tell me you wouldn't watch the fuck out of that.
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colourofsaying while trying to look like I was watching webinars about sales strategy.
Somehow during the course of this conversation we ended up plotting out an entire HBO series about the trial of the Templars. Not really sure how we got started on it, but seriously, it would FUCKING AMAZING.
The main character would be a French Templar of about 30 who had served at Acre/Outremer/Cyprus during the conflicts of the 1290s but was at the chapterhouse in Paris for the arrests in 1307. Sometime between 1307 and 1310 he confesses after being tortured, and after the executions in 1310 he's sent off to another order for his penitence - the framing device of the story would be his deathbed confession. There's plenty of focus on him and his crisis of faith in the order/the church and his survivor's guilt after confessing to heresy, but also major stories about the political conflict between Philip the Fair and Clement V, what James of Molay and the other Templar masters were up to, Hugh of Chalons and a few of the other knights that escaped the initial arrests, and some of the baby Templars.
William of Nogaret is the villain, because fuck William of Nogaret. (He's currently at the top of my list of Medieval Figures I Would Most Like to Punch in the Face. AND YES I HAVE A LIST.)
It would mostly be a political/historical drama, but it's HBO, of course it's also going to be full of sex. I desperately want a scene with Philip reading out his accusations of sodomy and indecent kissing by the Templars while he fucks a stable boy (I'm taking some historical license here, but not that much!). William of Nogaret is perving on everyone like a creepy fucker, including spying on a serving girl while jerking off and being ickily obsessed with hearing about all the torture the Templars suffered. Main Character Guy is...probably in love with someone. And the tiny bb!Templar he is mentoring will have a gay romance that starts in the flashbacks and continues while they are all in prison. (BB!Templar is going to die, but so is James of Molay and Philip and Clement and...basically everyone who isn't Main Character Guy. Fucking history, what can you do?)
The whole thing would be full of back-stabbing and political machinations and tragic sacrifices and secret arrests and wild denunciations in the middle of the papal court and paranoid conspiracies and torture and moral compromises in the face of horrible suffering and all the historical references a couple of medieval nerds can cram into a show. Tell me you wouldn't watch the fuck out of that.
This entry was originally posted at http://masterofmidgets.dreamwidth.org/265708.html. You can also comment there using OpenID.