The Tudors

[garbon]

Cavill was an unknown when the show began, making him a riskier casting choice.

[Admiral Yi]

Yeah but I bet Cavill has inspired more fantasies than Myers.

Pretty homoerotic there Squeelus.

[Queequeg]

I realized that after I posted, but still think I was right. What is Superman if not a modern Renassiance prince?

[Queequeg]

Yeah but I bet Cavill has inspired more fantasies than Myers.

Pretty homoerotic there Squeelus.

Cavill is an extremely handsome man. People who don't admit that are stupid.

[Admiral Yi]

Cavill is an extremely handsome man. People who don't admit that are stupid.

I demand you take Beeb's homoboner test.

[Queequeg]

 

[Queequeg]

Okay, Yi. Would you rather look like you or look like Henry Cavil?

[Camerus]

I imagine they were trying to grab the soap opera audience.  Women watch TV too.

Women don't like ruggedly handsome men?

[Queequeg]

So is Hillary Mantel the only person to do serious drama during the Tudor period well? Everything else seems kind of like middlebrow bullshit.

[garbon]

I'd think serious people would focus on researching/writing history.

[Queequeg]

I guess the Tudor period is one of maybe three or four historical periods with really mass appeal, so there's a lot of not very good stuff about it.

[Sheilbh]

So is Hillary Mantel the only person to do serious drama during the Tudor period well? Everything else seems kind of like middlebrow bullshit.

Tom Stoppard did serious comedy very well in Shakespeare in Love. A Man for all Seasons is superb as well.

I also love Mantel's A Place of Greater Safety set in the French Revolution

[Queequeg]

I said "drama" so as to exclude Shakespeare in Love and Blackadder II. Will have to rewatch Man for All Seasons.

[Gups]

I guess the Prince and the Pauper is out as well?

Mantel's works are novels, not dramas. I'm sure there must be loads of novels set in Tudor times. Some people liek Phillipa Greofory's stuff, though I've not read it myself.