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4:36 am
Hi!
New here and just joining in on the conversation.
The Wolsey suicide did bother me, but I got to thinking about how Sam Neill portrayed Wolsey and how I believe Anthony Quayle (I hope I remembered him correctly) portrayed him in “Anne of the Thousand Days”
Both were power/wealth hungry to be sure and both screwed up the divorce Henry so desperately wanted, however, the portrayal by Quayle led me to feel for Wolsey, whereas Neill’s portrayal made me want to off him, or have some horrible thing happen to him. Wolsey came off as just plain wicked in The Tudor’s and I couldn’t wait for his end. I feel that it was meant to deal us the viewer with drama and climax to his character. While I’m sure explosive diarrhea could have been interesting, I doubt it would have had the same appeal.
I also agree with Katherine Howard: I just can’t with her. Especially the way she treated Mary. Also the inconsistencies with Mary/Margaret.
The story of the Tudor family has enough without extras and twisting. They were relatively twisted themselves.
7:18 pm
February 24, 2010
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Hannele said
Reading just now The crown of thistles by Linda Porter, I think that making Mary and Margaret who then married the king of Portugal one person had even more damning effect than mere personalities: it made Scotland almost totally non-existent in the whole show.
Until Henry goes north to meet his nephew. Nephew? Where’d he come from? Who doe he belong to? Honestly, leaving the history between Scotland and England out of the story was a huge mistake. That Margaret/Mary/Portugal thing was insane.
Also, Porter points out that before Mary was born, Margaret’s son was an heir to England’s throne which Henry did not took well. He seems already been annoyed as a young boy when his sister was elevated to a queen and he was “only” a duke.
Yes, the fact that Henry was jealous of his sister at such a young age due to the fact that she became a queen and he was only a duke, says a whole lot about his character. It does make me wonder how he would have honestly felt when his brother became a king.
Sorry, I couldn’t break this up properly.
