Comments | the_grynne: clearly, i am obsessed

the_grynne

clearly, i am obsessed

May 29, 2007 20:34

(Or maybe just overly enthusiastic and vocal?)

So. Was googling for reviews under "the tudors" + "thomas tallis".

And this blog is the third result down.

...huh?

Somebody else write fic, quick, so I'm not a fandom of bloody one!

[tv] the tudors

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alexandral May 29 2007, 10:39:28 UTC

Wo-ho! I noticed on a few occasions before that lj entries come usually very high in google. I guess this accounts for all the strange comments one gets once in a while!

the_grynne May 29 2007, 10:40:24 UTC

YES! Bizarre spam comments from godknowswho.

so_spiffed May 29 2007, 13:58:25 UTC

goggling

Hee! :D

the_grynne May 29 2007, 13:59:35 UTC

:) I was wondering why the word looked funny...

The Tudor Review? anonymous May 29 2007, 20:22:34 UTC

Are you a big fan of The Tudors? I'm really liking it so far, minus what I feel is the mis-casting of Anne Boleyn. I love Jonathan Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIII though! He's also the face of Hugo by Hugo Boss right now www.hugofragrances.com/us/, really cute!

Re: The Tudor Review? the_grynne May 29 2007, 23:40:49 UTC

I've mixed feelings about it. I don't think that it's particularly good television on the whole, and the novelty of JRM as Henry wore off quickly - now he just annoys me. I like Thomas Tallis because he is kind of an impartial observer on the whole affair, and Sam Neill's performance is worth suffering JRM's scenery-chewing for.

clearly, I am obsessed mistress_tallis May 30 2007, 19:06:13 UTC

**giggling like a tween** Glad to see I'm not the only one googling that exact phrase!

I've got something in the works. If only there were 36 hours in a day! Wait; there's a poem I wrote from his perspective quite awhile ago...will put that on as soon as I find it.

Re: clearly, I am obsessed the_grynne May 30 2007, 21:47:53 UTC

I am so excited to hear that!

I usually prefer to write in pretty small fandoms, but when you're the only person writing a character it can feel like you're in your own out-of-touch little loop and you start to question your take on things. I googled Tallis to try and find a range of views about 1.08, but nobody seemed to have any theories. *sigh*

Re: clearly, I am obsessed mistress_tallis June 9 2007, 04:55:35 UTC

Let's discuss Ep 8, if you'd still like to do so! What was your take on it ( ... )

Re: clearly, I am obsessed the_grynne June 9 2007, 05:33:45 UTC

I also find myself wondering if Tom was giving Joan particular attention because the light around her head had told him she was soon to die.

That idea hadn't occurred to me until you mentioned it in an earlier comment. You're right about how different his reactions were to her death and to Will's. It kind of made me shiver, and it adds another dimension to my initial interpretation of the scene in the chapel: that Tom was in part channeling Compton, by taking this rather unassuming creature and giving her the gift of being seen, and being appreciated fully as a person. If Tom in fact had intuited that she was about to die, initiating the relationship with her would have been like giving Will the goodbye he never had the chance to give. He's being kind to her, but he's also using her to relieve his own guilt, to exorcise the incompletedness of the affair ( ... )

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