The End of The Tudors....

[sherrilina]

I posted about Doctor Who, but I forgot to mention that I also recently finished The Tudors before starting to watch DW in earnest! :) Upon finishing Bones season 5 last month, I began to slowly work my way through the 4th and final season of The Tudors, and I finally finished about a week or so ago.  Here are my spoilery thoughts on the finale

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[sherrilina]

Oh yeah, I agree it's a shame that we never get to see Henry and Katherine young and in love at the beginning (they claimed season 1 focused on her, but this is such BS)...I understand their wanting to begin when they did, with the marriage already dissolving, but they could have at least had some flasbacks or something!

Catherine of Aragon is my favorite of the wives as well (I'm Team Catherine all the way! ;))--see my icon--and I actually made a tribute vid to her (see my Tudors tag) using clips from the 1970s BBC Six Wives of Henry VIII miniseries, a miniseries that you should definitely check out if you haven't see it, because they are the only one I've seen that DOES start at the beginning, and includes happy moments from the early years of C/H's marriage! :)

Did you not see the full season 4 then?

[thedoingofit]

I pretty much agree with everything you've said, especially the epic finale (the wives!) and continuing with the series at least through Edward's reign! Can you imagine how interesting it would have been to see Mary's responses to everything??

I actually really liked this version of Kitty Howard, too: I think they made her very sympathetic and genuinely interesting which can be hard to do with some of the source material given, ha ha! Seymour's wife was also really interesting, and I especially enjoyed seeing her political and religious machinations collide, heh.

I have to confess that I wasn't so keen on this Elizabeth, which is sad because she's obviously totally awesome. The actress was lovely ... but a little too wooden for me. :o(

But yeah. Definitely sad that this is over now... :o(

[sherrilina]

Oh yeah, I was not a big fan of the Elizabeth in this either, IDK the actress just didn't do it for me...:s