The White Queen, why it just all got too awful and why I just couldn't take any more of that chin

[mirien]

I haven't posted about this travesty for a few weeks because quite frankly, it's so laughably awful I'd have been here forever if I'd pointed out even just the major things which just made it unwatchable. That said, despite the thing just getting worse and worse I stuck it out until the infamous Malmsey incident, which I think was episode 7 or 8

Comments

[keiliss]

Gregory writes books for people who like the idea of costumes - just like on The Tudors - but who don't exactly read or know much about history. I hate that people's ideas of a whole period can be influenced by one woman's incredibly bad research and judgment.

TWQ sounds quite as bad as I thought it would.

[heartofoshun]

I think I have been trying to watch this as Ricardian crack fic.

Margaret Beaufort as some kind of saintly healer? Are you joking?

I am dying here! I thought they WERE joking! You actually think they aren’t? That has been the best part of it for me the Margaret Beaufort stuff. I went into it thinking I would have to hate her and I actually have been yukking it up all the way through. OMG! She has been a hoot and a half and playing it straight all the way through (I thought she was doing an awesome job-lantern jaw and all or especially--I was reading her as a cartoon villain). OK. So I have been deliberately missing the point. It was working for me to re-write in my head as I watched it.

"Mourning the death of her lover, Richard III...." AAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep! There is going to be no way to ignore that, is there? Obviously, by not reading the book.

By the way, I did read PG’s Anne Neville book The Kingmakers Daughter and it was so much worse than the TV version. She was infantile in the

[oloriel]

I had actually been looking forward to this series (having no particular passions as far as sides in the War of the Roses are concerned *hides*), but even just the one episode I've caught so far made me roll my eyes a lot. The incredibly effective pseudo-magic, smug scheming chin woman, the over-acting, the bad costumes, everything so rushed and so badly told... blaaaaaah. I don't think I'll bother with the rest, and I can imagine that it's even worse if someone (like you) actually knows about the historical background! Normally (for me) BBC series stand for good quality but this one? Ugh.

[gingerspark]

Gregory is a fantasy writer who uses and abuses really characters.

I can't stand inaccuracy in historical - seriously why don't they just give the character a cell phone? - they've messed with history enough as it is.

I also take great exception to changing plot lines. Leave out bits? disappointing but okay
Make up new bits? HELL NO. examples LoTR (it wasn't the Fecking elves that showed up at Helms Deep, and Halidir lives dammit) and The Hobbit (and extraneous new elf?? why?)