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[twitchbell]

Dear BBC

So, you're planning a TV series set in the fifteenth century, eh?
BBC Press ReleaseWell, I was naturally very excited to hear this

Comments

[eledonecirrhosa]

Do Philippa Gregory's novels have a plethora of orginal characters in them? If they don't, it seems a bit dumb to have paid the rights for them, given that history is free!

[twitchbell]

You're right - it does seem a bit daft of them. I wouldn't know how many original characters Gregory's got, but I would've thought the Wars of the Roses had quite enough characters in it already without inventing more!

[lareinenoire]

Oh, my dear God, no. Please, please, no. Tell me they're not going to base anything on Philippa Gregory's pile of unreadable---

::explodes::

[twitchbell]

Somehow I guessed what your reaction would be!

Like I say, I've only tried to read one and it was not a success. I do gather that other people like them. But then, some people like Dan Brown. (I did finish 'The Da Vinci Code' but that was only so I could point and laugh with more authority.)

[lareinenoire]

Ugh, I struggled to keep from throwing The White Queen at the wall. My reaction to it is here. It was a deeply frustrating book in its mediocrity. All the usual clichés and so utterly dull. I tore through Sharon Penman when I was in school and I remember enjoying Gregory's Georgian novels (Wideacre was one of them) but I never liked any of her Tudor stuff because I found them not nearly as edgy as they thought they were. (And the answer is...WITCHCRAFT!)

[twitchbell]

Your reaction to 'The White Queen' is quite perfect. I would probably have thought the same if I'd got any further with it. As it was, I just couldn't cope with how dull it was. Writing tediously about the Wars of the Roses should be a criminal offence, dammit!

[lareinenoire]

On an unrelated note, I totally support Matt Smith as Henry VI. Hilariously enough, he is my mental image of Henry VI in the gigantic Shakespeare AU. Also, we are clearly sharing a brain because Bradley James has been Edward IV in my head pretty much since the first series of Merlin.

(Also, I am seriously excited about any sort of television series set in the fifteenth century, but Gregory's books were TERRIBLE.)

[twitchbell]

Yes, we clearly are sharing the same brain!