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alicehoffmans:

guess i’ll just talk about tudors because i have so much meta-ish about it i’ve yet to discuss:

in retrospect, it kind of baffles me that they tried to make their character of henry more sympathetic in ways that were inaccurate (i.e. don’t reflect historic record) and less sympathetic (or, i guess here i mean likable more than sympathetic) in ways that were inaccurate.

for more sympathetic, we have, for instance:

• anne of cleves is told that in addition to her pension for accepting the annulment, she is free to marry whoever she chooses (the former is true enough, the latter was certainly not)
• henry fitzroy dying at like… five or six? henry crying over his lil cap (if they’d started earlier they could have had a scene of emotional anguish after the new year’s prince of 1511 died, but nooooooo,)
• henry wearing black for mourning while anne wears yellow after koa’s death is announced (bitch wore yellow…and sorry, no, it wasn’t the ‘Spanish color of mourning’…)

for less sympathetic, we have:

• all that. 
• a few others but i ran out of steam, tbh. 
• OH RIGHT:
• treatment of both bessie blount and mary boleyn. 

and like i know, creative license and yada-yada, but like also…he did so much that so wholly unsympathetic that’s right there for you to use?? to the point where creating so many unsympathetic scenes w/ no basis in historic record just seems like uuuuh…overkill.