Gift of Exile fanfic

[retropian]

Sometimes all you ask or need is entertaining crap.    And I understand that there are some guys in The Tudors who are pretty easy on the eyes. ... 

Oh yes, lots of loverley eye candy. Perhaps the most historically inaccurate part of the series, is that they all seem so clean. What would someone look like if they only bathed once annually? Not like these guys, but I'm not complaining, freshly showered is good.

[Marge_Innavera]

Oh yes, lots of loverley eye candy. Perhaps the most historically inaccurate part of the series, is that they all seem so clean. What would someone look like if the only bathed once annually? Not like these guys, but I'm not complaining, freshly showered is good.

There was an excellent movie out a few years ago about Joan of Arc. I'm not sure how historically accurate it was overall but there were moments of "uncomfortable history", as museum workers often call it.  One was a scene where she was spending the night as a guest of the king -- surely the best accommodations anyone in Europe could hope for in those days.  There's a scene in Joan's bedchamber when she's just gotten out of bed; she's talking with a friend and casually picking what's evidently little bugs out of her hair, with neither character seeming to think anything of it.

That's my complaint re just about all 'traditional' Westerns -- not only are the characters, especially women characters, sporting totally out of place hairstyles, they all look like they bathe daily.

[retropian]

There was an excellent movie out a few years ago about Joan of Arc. I'm not sure how historically accurate it was overall but there were moments of "uncomfortable history", as museum workers often call it.  One was a scene where she was spending the night as a guest of the king -- surely the best accommodations anyone in Europe could hope for in those days.  There's a scene in Joan's bedchamber when she's just gotten out of bed; she's talking with a friend and casually picking what's evidently little bugs out of her hair, with neither character seeming to think anything of it.

That's my complaint re just about all 'traditional' Westerns -- not only are the characters, especially women characters, sporting totally out of place hairstyles, they all look like they bathe daily.

That is one thing few historical movies or TV series take into account when trying to be accurate: The dirt and lack of personal hygiene. The bad teeth (a major cause of death), and breath etc. In the Tudors, everyone looks freshly scrubbed and perfumed and have great teeth. That's OK, it's still a highly entertaining show.

[Jeff Wrangler]

That is one thing few historical movies or TV series take into account when trying to be accurate: The dirt and lack of personal hygiene. The bad teeth (a major cause of death), and breath etc. In the Tudors, everyone looks freshly scrubbed and perfumed and have great teeth. That's OK, it's still a highly entertaining show.

If I haven't said enough bad things about The Tudors already, here's another one.  What I have seen of the costumes--you can buy reproductions of some of the costumes from Museum Replicas--especially the men's costumes, look incredibly cheap and cheesey to me.

Accurate Historical Spoiler. ...

Sorry, I can't help myself. ... 

For anyone who may not know this already, it was Henry VIII's younger sister Mary (not Margaret) who was sent off to France to marry the elderly French King Louis XII. Mary subsequently married Henry's friend Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk. Mary's granddaughter was Lady Jane Grey.

Henry's older sister Margaret had been sent off by their father, Henry VII, to marry the king of Scots. It was from Margaret Tudor's marriage to King James of Scotland that Mary Stuart, aka Mary, Queen of Scots, derived her claim to the English throne.