Speaking of silly telly...
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shapinglight...and I'm making no excuses for loving True Blood. I do. So there.
But anyway, did anyone else watch the first episode of The White Queen?
Spoilers behind cut, also for The Americans.
I did, but am not sure I can force myself to watch any more. A small amount of preposterousness is acceptable IMO in, say, Game of Thrones, since it's not 'real', but I find I can't handle it when the story claims to have any relationship at all to real, actual history.
Well, maybe it doesn't make that claim, since The White Queen is based on novels by Philippa Gregory. But all the same, it was silly, silly, silly!
Plus, there was an almost rape scene, which only wasn't an actual rape because first our heroine pulled a knife on the king, and then threatened to slit her own throat when the king pointed out this was treason. And then she married him later anyway.
You know, I hate rape scenes on TV. I hated the one in the first episode of The Americans too, but at least it wasn't Philip who raped Elizabeth.
'Course, if you didn't know me at the time BtVS season 6 aired, you may well say this is rich coming from a Spuffy 'shipper, but as it happens, I hated the AR so much it made me ill (which, yes, I am ashamed of now, but that's what can happen when you get that involved in something), because I understood what damage it did to the character of Spike and hated Joss's carelessness in doing that to him.
Oh anyway, you could argue, I suppose, that The White Queen is supposedly set in the Middle Ages (who knew they were that clean?) and things were different back then. Perhaps women in those days took men's being unable to take no for an answer as a compliment, or as being their fault for tempting the poor bloke in the first place (you know, by being female?). Thing is, it didn't seem like the Middle Ages. More like a bunch of modern people wearing silly costumes.
Meh! Clearly, I'm taking it too seriously.
But anyway, did anyone else watch the first episode of The White Queen?
Spoilers behind cut, also for The Americans.
I did, but am not sure I can force myself to watch any more. A small amount of preposterousness is acceptable IMO in, say, Game of Thrones, since it's not 'real', but I find I can't handle it when the story claims to have any relationship at all to real, actual history.
Well, maybe it doesn't make that claim, since The White Queen is based on novels by Philippa Gregory. But all the same, it was silly, silly, silly!
Plus, there was an almost rape scene, which only wasn't an actual rape because first our heroine pulled a knife on the king, and then threatened to slit her own throat when the king pointed out this was treason. And then she married him later anyway.
You know, I hate rape scenes on TV. I hated the one in the first episode of The Americans too, but at least it wasn't Philip who raped Elizabeth.
'Course, if you didn't know me at the time BtVS season 6 aired, you may well say this is rich coming from a Spuffy 'shipper, but as it happens, I hated the AR so much it made me ill (which, yes, I am ashamed of now, but that's what can happen when you get that involved in something), because I understood what damage it did to the character of Spike and hated Joss's carelessness in doing that to him.
Oh anyway, you could argue, I suppose, that The White Queen is supposedly set in the Middle Ages (who knew they were that clean?) and things were different back then. Perhaps women in those days took men's being unable to take no for an answer as a compliment, or as being their fault for tempting the poor bloke in the first place (you know, by being female?). Thing is, it didn't seem like the Middle Ages. More like a bunch of modern people wearing silly costumes.
Meh! Clearly, I'm taking it too seriously.
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Date: 2013-06-22 04:38 pm (UTC)Poor Janet McTeer never gets any decent parts now - she seemed to go from interesting ingénue to playing someone prettier's mum overnight - I suppose it's because she's tall and sort of craggy looking.
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Date: 2013-06-24 02:52 pm (UTC)I didn't bother with ep 2, though. Life's too short.