"Dammit, Steerpike, listen to Merlin!"- The Tudors

[himiko]

Excuse the title up at the top, this is what I was shouting at the screen when I first watched the series

So, yeah, this is a few years out of date, but I've started watching "The Tudors", in which Sam Neill plays Cardinal Wolsey in the first series. Anyone else a fan?

Personally, I quite like the show, but I'm also quite surprised that it found such success, whilst containing so few sympathetic characters. Most people in the show are arseholes with occasional sympathetic moments. It's kind of awesome!

[sleepyqueenie]

lol
I was shouting at the screen too when I first saw the Tudors. Something about Merlin... can't remember what.
The show is beautifully made and interesting.

[himiko]

Think I've accidentally got my boyfriend hooked on this show now, too. He sat there ranting about how historically inaccurate it was, then I came home from work one day and he'd finished the series and was after buying series 2...

Also, Jonathan Rhys Meyers seems to get his top off so often in this that I think his torso deserves it's own shout out in the opening credits.

Alsoalso, Natalie Dormer (Anne Boleyn) is now in Game of Thrones, playing Margaery Tyrell, alongside, of course, Lena Headey- more Merlin linkage!

[sleepyqueenie]

That is great! I would love to hear the historical inaccuracies. btw you have a boyfriend ;D lovely, congrats

lol Torso credits, they should exist.

Cool, Game of Thrones season 2 is on my to-watch-list.