Is anyone else ridiculously excited about this week's Tudors?

[cornsilk]

I couldn't bear it to begin with and now am a bit obsessed with it. It's the Henry effect.

according to history, the only communication between anne and her executioner was her paying him and his asking her forgiveness, which she readily gave and a few other sentences.

anne had hair so long you could sit on it, and she had it bound up high and a small white cap on top of that.

she was very calm at her execution according to all reports.

even katherine howard had settled herself fairly well when it came time for hers.

What did you think of tonight's programme then expat?

We live on the road from Dover to London. Strange to think of the swordsman on his way past to his gruesome task. I like to think it was as quick as the programme suggested!

i didn't watch it because i hate hte chap who plays henry.

i mean, fucking Jude Law would have been more believable.

it was very quick, cat, her execution.

she got off far more lightly than Thomas More.

lol - he would have been even hornier.

The bloke who plays Henry is indeed rubbish.

Anne, I thought, was great.

Her father was horrible. What happened to him in real life?

I couldn't watch the Thomas More episode. . Big personal hero of mine.

God yes he was just awful.

So who, apart from Jude Law would have been good?

Aragorn.

Maybe a big arrogant redheaded bloke?

[insert own interpretation of above]

mick hucknall?

he was sort of dicksmack in real life, her dad.

he lost a lot of his priviledges after that and died a few years later.

ROFL, Mick Hucknall is the 21st Century Henry VIII.

He should cover that Hermann's Hermits number - 'I'm Enery the Eighth I Am'.

I prob wouldn't buy it though.

ewwww - he is sooo fugly!

DG suggested Mick Hucknall too! Great from you lot.

Or Nicholas Witchell from BBC news

As for Anne's father, 'the kindest thing to say about him is that he was a product of his times', I found on t'internet, commenting on him being implicated in the judicial killing of two of his children.

Yeah, but if he was the King, looking real good in a pair of hose, and UK Real Tennis champion, I know you'd reconsider, cornsilk...

Yes, OldestCat, Thomas Boleyn was viler than vile. Though that 'So I keep my earldom' might have been overegging a bit.

He was quite ahead of his time, educating his daughters though wasn't he? All for his political gain though, it would seem

thomas more way ahead of his time. and not for his own gain or to whore out his three daughters and rich heiress wards for his own gain.

Fuck, no, Thomas More educated his daughters for the right reason.

Hence (partially) my love for him.

Integrity, conscience, muscle, intelligence, feminist consciousness. Who else had that before 1600?

loved the way they showed little elizabeth listening to the 2 women discussing marriage. You'll either die in childbirth or the plague.

Oh so that's why she never married!

I thought it was because she realised her father was a misogynistic bastard and so assumed that all men would be like that...

Sorry, meant Thomas Boleyn educating Anne and Mary, not Thomas More, who I also love.