Tudors season 2
Been watching Tudors season 2...
Well, somehow it doesn't pull me in like the first season. It's very well done (if we forget the historical inaccuracies) and very lavish and all that. Maybe it's the prominence of Anne Boleyn, whom I can't stand. My heart breaks for Catherine and everything Henry puts her through, and I admire her faith and courage so very much. When this season was playing in the US, I remember seeing oodles of Anne icons and Anne/Henry shipping everywhere. I honestly don't get it. She cold-heartedly schemes to get rid of Henry's first wife, who never did anything to her, and gets into an adulterous relationship with Henry on top of that. Why is that "an amazing love story"? I burst out laughing when she lectured her household on morality after her coronation. Morality and good conduct - really, Anne? How can you afford to preach to others what you yourself never practiced? Obviously, I feel for her knowing she lost her head in the end, but all the Anne-worship that has blossomed after the Tudors really gets to me. I feel it's more about two handsome young actors than anything else. I'm pretty sure any woman would fiercely stand up against "the other woman" if it was themselves or their friends, so in that sense it is baffling, too. Nobody cheers the brazen other woman in real life.
That aside, I've only seen three episodes so far, so I don't have much else to say. Oh yes, it was nice to see Mary, and hey, what is wrong with Henry? He was selfish (and consequently cruel) in reality, but I never got the image that he was a thug. I'm referring to how he beat up the messenger from Queen Catherine. What was that?
Oh yes, and I'm liking Charles Brandon's change to a more honourable man, but I suspect we'll soon see him turning back to his old ways and cheating on his wife. This is the Tudors, after all.
And final point: what IS it with this show being completely unable to show any other woman acting virtuously than Queen Catherine? I mean, pretty much all other women sleep around and nobody stays a virgin till marriage, not even those who've sworn to do so. It gets to me because it definitely wasn't like that back then, and it's not like that even today.
Well, somehow it doesn't pull me in like the first season. It's very well done (if we forget the historical inaccuracies) and very lavish and all that. Maybe it's the prominence of Anne Boleyn, whom I can't stand. My heart breaks for Catherine and everything Henry puts her through, and I admire her faith and courage so very much. When this season was playing in the US, I remember seeing oodles of Anne icons and Anne/Henry shipping everywhere. I honestly don't get it. She cold-heartedly schemes to get rid of Henry's first wife, who never did anything to her, and gets into an adulterous relationship with Henry on top of that. Why is that "an amazing love story"? I burst out laughing when she lectured her household on morality after her coronation. Morality and good conduct - really, Anne? How can you afford to preach to others what you yourself never practiced? Obviously, I feel for her knowing she lost her head in the end, but all the Anne-worship that has blossomed after the Tudors really gets to me. I feel it's more about two handsome young actors than anything else. I'm pretty sure any woman would fiercely stand up against "the other woman" if it was themselves or their friends, so in that sense it is baffling, too. Nobody cheers the brazen other woman in real life.
That aside, I've only seen three episodes so far, so I don't have much else to say. Oh yes, it was nice to see Mary, and hey, what is wrong with Henry? He was selfish (and consequently cruel) in reality, but I never got the image that he was a thug. I'm referring to how he beat up the messenger from Queen Catherine. What was that?
Oh yes, and I'm liking Charles Brandon's change to a more honourable man, but I suspect we'll soon see him turning back to his old ways and cheating on his wife. This is the Tudors, after all.
And final point: what IS it with this show being completely unable to show any other woman acting virtuously than Queen Catherine? I mean, pretty much all other women sleep around and nobody stays a virgin till marriage, not even those who've sworn to do so. It gets to me because it definitely wasn't like that back then, and it's not like that even today.