Comments | selenak: January Meme: Family Dynamics in The Borgias

selenak

January Meme: Family Dynamics in The Borgias

Jan 16, 2016 16:42

The Borgias: love the first two seasons, do not love the third with the exception of a few episodes, to the point where I was relieved when it was cancelled, not least because I could see where this was (likely) going even before Neil Jordan described the ending he had had in mind. That my emotional investment was with the family dynamic (as in ( Read more... )

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January Meme: Family Dynamics in The Borgias anonymous January 16 2016, 19:47:30 UTC

Thank you for writing this! I really enjoyed reading it!

Re: January Meme: Family Dynamics in The Borgias selenak January 17 2016, 08:53:22 UTC

You're welcome.

lareinenoire January 16 2016, 23:45:39 UTC

I'm writing about ladies in The Borgias as part of my next book project and I'm definitely curious about the perceived fanservice going on in Season 3. Clearly I need to have a look at some of the publicity and so forth to see exactly how they're framing all that ridiculous Cesare/Lucrezia nonsense, since, as you say, it seems pretty clear that Neil Jordan wasn't interested in the incest angle.

selenak January 17 2016, 08:59:15 UTC

I remember occasionally checking out the Lucrezia_Cesare community on lj, since it was the only one talking about The Borgias at all, and they were gleeful about it happening but disgruntled with Neil Jordan's previous "no incest" utterings and suspicious silence when it actually happened; it also didn't escape their notice Jordan didn't write any of the first half of s3 episodes where Cesare and Lucrezia had their incest scenes (Jon Amiel and Kari Scogland did).