Another Tudors Whinge Thread

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Anne Boleyn may not have had blue eyes but I would bet my last pack of malteasers that Jane Seymour didn't walk like a builder either.

Sorry but everytime the actress moved I giggled, they may have got the "pretty" right but seriously I've seen more elegant chimpanzees.

Jane was actually the same age as Anne Boleyn (who was about 28 or 30 by this point). The point is that they should both be about 15-20 years younger than Henry, but of course they aren't, the actors are all about the same age. Which is stupid.

If it helps at all, (and I know it isn't enough) JRM is 31.

I quite like the woman who plays Anne. Am starting to feel sorry for her anyway.

She also does very crap fake laughs. Although over all I think she does come across as having sex appeal and being a bit feisty.

Dumbledore - I know, he is 2 years older than me! Hideously miscast!!! Ludicrous!!! But if it is about the Tudors I cannot look away.

LaVie, she does incredibly crap fake laughs, doesn't she! I rather like her though.

I want her hair, it's lovely. well, only if I have a servant to put it into an elaborate up do every day of course

Ooh yes did you see when they were at...um some outdoory festivally thing, where she told her dad she was pg? It was woven at the back.

Peter O'Toole is playing the Pope, but he's playing the wrong pope (Paul III didn't become Pope until 1534), so not a great advert for "realistic casting"

I really like Natalie Dormer as Anne Boleyn, got to be better than Natalie Portman anyway (no, I haven't seen The Other Boleyn Girl, I can't bear too, both Boleyn sisters look too hideously miscast to me). I think the really fake laughs are supposed to be really really fake, to give the American audience a big clue that character is not actually all that amused, but actually kind of hysterical and almost a bit mad, unsurprisingly.

Anne did seem a bit unhinged when she told her dad she was pregnant again. But then she was probably getting a bit desperate by this point.

Yes she certainly does 'unhinged' very well indeed!

Most modern dramatic representations (The Other Boleyn Girl, The Concubine) seem to follow the idea that she did commit adultery in order to try to conceive a son as she was so desperate, whereas this seems to be going along with the idea that she was framed (her ladies in waiting keep being shown getting glimpses of her with her brother and with Mark Smeaton in poses that look comprimising but are innocent). She must have been pretty desperate either way.

I thought Anne of Cleves was supposed to be the ugly one? I would not be happy if I was Joss Stone!

Not sure if she committed adultery or not. The book I just read seems to think not as she was never completely on her own. She always had at least one of her ladies in waiting with her, even when asleep. They would have had to be in on it too, which I suppose is a possibility...

There's just so much we will never be able to know with certainty.

I love the commanding walk Natalie Dormer does. I don't like her thin upper lip though.

I love the way these conversations end up about hair.

I did love her hair though, when it was woven.

DP is loving this, we sky+ it and watch it on Saturdays normally. He didn't pay attention in History class and has to keep pausing it to ask questions (I'm a complete Tudor period freak as opposed to DP being thick).

It does irritate me that all the actors are the same age though, it just makes some of the story slightly off IYSWIM.

Also very smutty question from DP which I couldn't answer, when George bent Jane over and gave her a good seeing-to, are we assuming that it was just roughness or was there a suggestion that it was bum sex?

Sorry to lower the tone

(chokes on cornflakes)

I assumed bum sex but then I am filthy

Also loved the way Jane was practically attacking her hair when she was having a go at George. It looked like rats tails!