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Travelledtheworld · 21/01/2015 11:29

Wednesday 21st January BBC2 Channel 4

lush costumes.

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/11358197/Damian-Lewiss-inspiration-for-Wolf-Halls-Henry-VIII-Wills-and-Harry.html

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Idontseeanysontarans · 04/02/2015 21:33

I want to take back what I said about Clare Foy. She's actually pretty good Smile

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 04/02/2015 21:48

I'm having trouble following, despite knowing the history pretty well. I just can't remember who everyone is meant to be.

IrenetheQuaint · 04/02/2015 21:52

Loved the scene with Cromwell and Anne.

It's all far too clean-looking though.

Idontseeanysontarans · 04/02/2015 21:55

Someone at the BBC is desperate to sex this up..

BOFster · 04/02/2015 22:00

I don't understand by whose authority that poor chap was condemned- can anyone explain it for me?

IrenetheQuaint · 04/02/2015 22:03

Well Henry I assume, but I didn't quite get it either.

TheVestalVirgin · 04/02/2015 22:04

Love the lighting in the scenes it's very atmospheric and the rooms look like jewellery boxes.

Disappointed in the scene of Anne's coronation. Looked like the BBC scrimped the budget on that, it was just a few people in a church.

KatieScarlettreregged · 04/02/2015 22:05

Oh that was near perfection.
DL just keeps getting better, best portrayal of H8 I've ever watched.
The others are just as true to the book, it's so well done.

Wish Tom Crom would trace my collarbone (sigh)...

Question, Johan referred to her mother knowing about her sexing with TC. Her mother? Was Mercy her mother? I thought the Wykes Pater was a widower.

BOFster · 04/02/2015 22:05

But I thought he was advocating AGAINST Rome? Confused

BOFster · 04/02/2015 22:06

Anyway, fantastic episode.

Trills · 04/02/2015 22:06

Henry wants to break with Rome but right now he doesn't want to be Protestant, he just wants to be in charge.

I think.

So he still believes in the Latin and the transubstantiation and the penance and the purgatory, just not that the Pope is in charge.

Idontseeanysontarans · 04/02/2015 22:07

I'm 10 minutes behind. He's just got the tapestry.

IrenetheQuaint · 04/02/2015 22:07

Yes but Henry was never a Protestant, was he... his problem was with Papal authority rather than with Catholic doctrine and practice per se.

MuddhaOfSuburbia · 04/02/2015 22:07

yy think so

I think it was business as usual, burning (protestant) heretics. On Henry's orders

TheVestalVirgin · 04/02/2015 22:08

I confess I don't remember the collar bone tracing scene in the book Hmm

KatieScarlettreregged · 04/02/2015 22:09

It was Mores/Henry's law. Only one recantation allowed, second time death for heretics, which he was under the law at that time. TC wanted to spirit him away but he (in the way of all zealots) HAD to tell the world his testament IIRC so a burnin he did go.

squoosh · 04/02/2015 22:09

Yes I think it was still considered blasphemy at that time to declare that you didn't believe in transubstantiation.

IrenetheQuaint · 04/02/2015 22:10

I thought the collar bone tracing was Cromwell's fantasy?

Trills · 04/02/2015 22:10

That was in his head yes

squoosh · 04/02/2015 22:10

Yes he was having a little daydream.

KatieScarlettreregged · 04/02/2015 22:12

No, I'm pretty sure TC didn't lust after Anne on the book. He could see why Henry and the others did but I feel he saw her pretty clearly. He admired her game but not her. Loving Mary and Jane S. They were more TCs cup of small beer.

TheVestalVirgin · 04/02/2015 22:13

I guessed it was him fantasising but I don't remember that happening in the book? I didn't think he found Anne alluring at all.

ExitPursuedByABear · 04/02/2015 22:17

I don't find her alluring either. The only mis casting in my book.

KatieScarlettreregged · 04/02/2015 22:19

Exactly Trills. Henry was always a catholic.

Trills · 04/02/2015 22:21

I've just looked up where I've seen Anne before - she was Adora Belle Dearheart in Going Postal (Terry Pratchett).

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