I don’t wanna feel Blue anymore...
The Spanish Princess ended with Season 2 and I was only mildly upset. I can't tell if the season got that much weaker or I just got too advanced in history and therefore picky but I found many fault with it. For one, the show obviously lacks budget. The filming took place mostly in one small castle and the set they used for Hampton Court is very lacking. I know that shit now.
Then there are some major historic discrepancies. I mean, I begrudgingly accepted that Henry who was supposed to be like 11 looked 18, but it just kept getting derailed in timeline and facts. But my biggest disappointment is how much the storylines are modernized. I know that that is necessary to some extent and it's impossible to convey to the audiences how different were attitudes to nearly everything - life and death and marriage and childbirth - but I feel like they went too far with trying for the story to be relatable. For instance, child mortality was extremely common and so were king's mistresses.
I also hate the botched storyline of Margaret Tudor. Her whole story is oversimplified and she is portrayed as some sort of 16 c feminist. Ok, it's also because I do have a special soft spot for Lord of Angus, played by a redhead Scottish icon who nailed King James. The season ended on Katherine leaving the palace and that felt abrupt but most of all I hated that obligatory solemn monologue. It reminded me of when I don't know how to end a post so I do this cheesy essay-like ending. It sounded especially hollow knowing how Henry did in the end divorce Katherine and how her daughter became the infamous Bloody Mary.
Then there are some major historic discrepancies. I mean, I begrudgingly accepted that Henry who was supposed to be like 11 looked 18, but it just kept getting derailed in timeline and facts. But my biggest disappointment is how much the storylines are modernized. I know that that is necessary to some extent and it's impossible to convey to the audiences how different were attitudes to nearly everything - life and death and marriage and childbirth - but I feel like they went too far with trying for the story to be relatable. For instance, child mortality was extremely common and so were king's mistresses.
I also hate the botched storyline of Margaret Tudor. Her whole story is oversimplified and she is portrayed as some sort of 16 c feminist. Ok, it's also because I do have a special soft spot for Lord of Angus, played by a redhead Scottish icon who nailed King James. The season ended on Katherine leaving the palace and that felt abrupt but most of all I hated that obligatory solemn monologue. It reminded me of when I don't know how to end a post so I do this cheesy essay-like ending. It sounded especially hollow knowing how Henry did in the end divorce Katherine and how her daughter became the infamous Bloody Mary.