The Tudors

[Queequeg]

Also, Tim, that's a weird response. Rhys-Myers isn't a great actor and I think his limited range is best suited to roles where he plays trashy, hedonistic pretty people. This is hardly me cumming over Hugenot victory in France.

[Eddie Teach]

Cromwell was an interesting character, sure, but he lacks presence. Henry doesn't have as much as he should either. It's like watching our congressmen engage in court politics. Who wants to see that? 

[CountDeMoney]

You just get way to passionate and dramatic about the most trivial of shit.

I really hope it's not a reflection of how you act in real life.

You got room to talk.  Fucking zomg-its-the-new-Michael-Bay-movie with your Assburger puppy dog bullshit.  The bullshit we had to go through with you over motherfucking King Kong.

Go find the DMZ and get mowed down by some starving commie monkeys.

[jimmy olsen]

You just get way to passionate and dramatic about the most trivial of shit.

I really hope it's not a reflection of how you act in real life.

You got room to talk.  Fucking zomg-its-the-new-Michael-Bay-movie with your Assburger puppy dog bullshit.  The bullshit we had to go through with you over motherfucking King Kong.

Go find the DMZ and get mowed down by some starving commie monkeys.

Spellus goes well beyond me.

Plus, those that know me here, realize I don't act anything like that in real life.

[The Brain]

Is Henry VII in the show at all?

[Camerus]

This thread has a Riefenstahl tinge.

[Sheilbh]

It just felt miscast. King Henry was always a huge guy, allegedly good-looking when young, a total ogre when older. He was never a pretty-boy type. 

He was hardly the only one.  One you think the entire English Aristocracy was selected by a kingdom wide 'Hot or Not' vote rather than by birth.

True, but Henry's ogre-esque appearance (as well as temper) later in life is sorta central to the plot here. 

Yeah, but I think casting someone pretty makes the point of how he physically (and morally) degenerates. Especially because the public image of Henry is entirely fixed by his corpulent later life. Every documentary I've seen on the Tudors makes a big deal of how handsome and svelte he was as a young man because it's so against how we imagine him.

[Phillip V]

Every documentary I've seen on the Tudors makes a big deal of how handsome and svelte he was as a young man because it's so against how we imagine him.

We need a show on young George Washington. It will begin with the death of his father.

[Ed Anger]

This thread has a Riefenstahl tinge.

[garbon]

You just get way to passionate and dramatic about the most trivial of shit.

I really hope it's not a reflection of how you act in real life.

You got room to talk.  Fucking zomg-its-the-new-Michael-Bay-movie with your Assburger puppy dog bullshit.  The bullshit we had to go through with you over motherfucking King Kong.

Go find the DMZ and get mowed down by some starving commie monkeys.

Spellus goes well beyond me.

Plus, those that know me here, realize I don't act anything like that in real life.

Well could you drop it here too?

[Valmy]

Is Henry VII in the show at all?

Nope.

[The Brain]

Is Henry VII in the show at all?

Nope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pKDWQaI3Bc

[Malthus]

It just felt miscast. King Henry was always a huge guy, allegedly good-looking when young, a total ogre when older. He was never a pretty-boy type. 

He was hardly the only one.  One you think the entire English Aristocracy was selected by a kingdom wide 'Hot or Not' vote rather than by birth.

True, but Henry's ogre-esque appearance (as well as temper) later in life is sorta central to the plot here. 

Yeah, but I think casting someone pretty makes the point of how he physically (and morally) degenerates. Especially because the public image of Henry is entirely fixed by his corpulent later life. Every documentary I've seen on the Tudors makes a big deal of how handsome and svelte he was as a young man because it's so against how we imagine him.

Sure, he was allegedly handsome as all hell when younger - but he was always a big, physically imposing guy: over six feet tall, and big in proportion. An athlete with a trim figure but broad-shouldered and well-muscled who beat opponents to a pulp in jousting, was first at the death in hunting, etc.

This phyiscality was what people noted about him - very positively when he was young: he looked every inch a king.

[Queequeg]

Rhys-Myers is pretty buff. Not, like, Guest House Patrick Swayze buff but he's not really a few pretty boy.

[Admiral Yi]

He's a total pretty boy.