Of this and that...

[dangermousie]

Oh, God. People at TWOP, just SHUT UP!

Yes, yes, JRM is not over six feet tall and Henry VIII was. OMG! Ohnoez. Horrors. OMG, not historically accurate. BLAH. I am one of ten people who didn’t love Rome (it was good but didn’t grab me) and am one of ten people loving The Tudors. Anyway, nothing wrong with thinking it’s boring, slow-moving,

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[autumn_yaar]

WHAT NO I'LL BE IN EGYPT

[meganbmoore]

I'd pity you, but you'll be in Egypt. So I shall be jealous instead.

[autumn_yaar]

But I've already been to Egypt! I WANT TO SEE BI RIP OFF HIS SHIRT IN PERSON TOOOO

Ah, the world is so unfair. T_T

[meganbmoore]

see, the whole "second trip" part just kills the sympathy altogether...

*would be a sad, sad fangirly type person and hunting for ricketty old Emersons' if she ever went to Egypt*

(urm...the Emerson's are the family in Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody(Emerson) mystery series...if you haven't read the books)

[smartylibrarian]

Rain with no shirt..... *swoon*

I can't wait! We'll have to keep a watch for when tickets go on sale.

[dangermousie]

I can't wait! We'll have to keep a watch for when tickets go on sale.

Definitely. So, did you finish Full House?

[meganbmoore]

This is why I only go to TWOP for chuckles over how people can be stupid(like when they go on for eternity about there being no homosexual themes in Agatha Christie's books and then use any version of "A Murder is Announced" as an argument when it has the most canon homosexual couple Christie ever wrote)

The sex scenes in Rome are a large part of why I haven't checked it out...and frankly, any time I see Cleopatra and things like"orgy" my instinct is to go "no thank you" because, historically(propoganda wrtings aside) the only men she was ever linked to were her husbands(and not at the same time) under the laws of her country.

YAY! to getting VM S2.

What's waitress about?

[dangermousie]

TWOP people are scary.

Rome is not historically accurate AND pretentious about it. While Tudors has a laid back attitude about it that endears me to it.

Waitress is about a small town waitress who is planning to leave her icky husband but discovers she is preggers. She also falls in love with the town doc, NF. It's an indie...

[meganbmoore]

I'm odd about my historical shows and movies myself...I'm just as likely to love something for being historically accurate as I am to hate it, and the same is true for blatantly inaccurate. It's all about how true they are to history as they set it.

[morwen_peredhil]

I'm not going near the TWoP boards for The Tudors. I'm doing just fine on balancing my annoyance at its rape of history with my gleeful love of its soft-pr0ny soap-operatic glory, and I don't need the denizens of TWoP harshing that!

I think the super-cranky people need to look at nekkid screen caps until they forget what they were raging about. At least that works for me. :-P

[dangermousie]

I think the super-cranky people need to look at nekkid screen caps until they forget what they were raging about. At least that works for me. :-P

Now I want to get all rageful so you's soothe me with screencaps.

[janlake83]

yeah apparently in RL i am the only in my circle of friends and family loving the tudors... why cause it's meant to be entertaining not historically accurate... i am sadly waiting for the third eps...

and yeah i am waiting to get some money and will be buying season 1 and 2 of VM cause sad to say the third season wasn't worth watching.. although i knew they shoot the college scenes in sdsu (san diego state university) and i live in sd but like wrong to say that one of the pa's was a friend.

[dangermousie]

They are not mutually exclusive, but they don't have to match up. I have yet to see a really historical movie. I used to be really upset about that stuff (one of my double majors in college was history) but I realized that it was pointless: it was never going to be accurate. Now I view most historical fiction as an AU, an enjoyable or not as the case may be, but the inaccuracies, short of something truly staggering don't bug me if I like it otherwise...