The Tudors Season Two premier

[ivylass]

@jellyblue

No. It will drive you crazy.
If you watch it for the art direction (very nice) or as historical soft-core porn, you may well enjoy yourself, though.

If you want, thirdwarning, watch it and then come in and tell us everything they got wrong.

I’m assuming at this time it’s still not known that it is the man that determines the sex of the baby, hence Henry blaming everything on the poor wives. Still, you’d think he’d have been more in tune with public opinion…I know he wasn’t elected, but kings have been overthrown, and Henry knows that. You’d think he’d care a bit more about divorcing a popular queen and beheading a popular Chancellor.

I know it’s not historically accurate, but everything is sooooo pretty!

[Captain_Amazing]

@ivylass

Still, you’d think he’d have been more in tune with public opinion…I know he wasn’t elected, but kings have been overthrown, and Henry knows that. You’d think he’d care a bit more about divorcing a popular queen and beheading a popular Chancellor.

Yes, but Henry was desperate.

[Baker]

@jellyblue

No. It will drive you crazy.
If you watch it for the art direction (very nice) or as historical soft-core porn, you may well enjoy yourself, though.

I haven’t watched the second season because I was so annoyed by how bad the history was. I tried, I really tried to ignore the errors, but I couldn’t.

[Bridget_Burke]

@Captain Amazing

…Just some notes on terminology that might help. Nowadays, people don’t tend to use the term Dark Ages much anymore. Instead, that time period is generally called the “Early Middle Ages”, and generally, people date it from around 500-1000. Then, come the “High Middle Ages”, from 1000-1300, followed by the “Late Middle Ages”, 1300-1500. Overlapping that, you get the time period generally called the “Rennaisance”, from around 1300-1600…

Blame the Barbarian Anti-Defamation League for this little bit of PC. Why, some day we might not even be able to say “Barbarians.”

Slightly more seriously, “Late Antiquity” is also used for the earlier part of the former Dark Ages.

[thirdwarning]

@ivylass

If you want, thirdwarning, watch it and then come in and tell us everything they got wrong.

I know it’s not historically accurate, but everything is sooooo pretty!

The big problem with that idea is that I’d be sure to mess it up. I might enjoy it for the pretty, though. I’m not that much of an expert, just too picky.

[missbunny]

@Baker

I haven’t watched the second season because I was so annoyed by how bad the history was. I tried, I really tried to ignore the errors, but I couldn’t.

I was horrified at the unnecessary changing of history but then I decided to watch it as though it were historical fiction with characters whose names coincidentally were the same as those of real people, but who weren’t actually supposed to be those real people.

I saw the first two episodes of Season 2 a few months ago (they were released early somehow for a limited time??) and am looking forward to the rest of the season. I just won’t pretend it’s accurate.