Alex Bunbury 9:35 Thu Feb 5
Wolf Hall
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I am clearly a philistine as this has been universally praised as the best thing ever but is anybody else struggling to keep awake watching this? I can appreciate the quality of it and clearly Mark Rylance is a great actor but it is so slow and I struggle to work out who is who. I had the same problem with the book!
Anybody else with me on this?
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Swiss.
5:14 Thu Feb 26
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LYALL
Yes Mary Queen of Scots was a messy one. Was that the one when they held up the head and her head fell out of the wig and it rolled into the crowd?
They recon you can see and stay conscious for several minutes after.
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LYALL OUT
5:01 Thu Feb 26
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It was Mary's execution that took two blows, maybe three. A bit messy either way.
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Boycie
4:53 Thu Feb 26
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the tudors was much more better
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Gruesome Dump
11:22 Thu Feb 26
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I'm only on episode three. And now you awful BRUTES have given it all away.
Monstrous.
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The Kronic
11:09 Thu Feb 26
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stomper 1:52
I thought that's what happened to Cromwell.
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11:08 Thu Feb 26
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This will get a couple of BAFTAs.
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stomper
2:44 Thu Feb 26
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Thanks Chim
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chim chim cha boo
2:03 Thu Feb 26
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Stomp,
The Queen was executed on Tower Green, Henry thoughtfully brought over a French executioner so that Anne could be beheaded by the sword, not a clumsy axe. Resigned to her death, she was reported to have walked to the scaffold at Tower Green. She completed her speech to the spectators with the cryptic comment that "If any man should meddle with my cause, I pray you to judge the best". It is believed that she presented her case in this manner so that neither her family or her daughter would suffer after her demise.
'The executioner was an expert with the sword who had no need for a block. As Anne nervously turned, with bandaged eyes, he took off her head with one sweep that sliced through her neck, her lips were seen to continue to move for a few minutes after. Anne's bloody corpse was hastily contained in an arrow chest and buried in theChapel of St. Peter ad Vincula, within the Tower'.
Thought it was Mary's executioner who got pissed but I'm probably wrong about that? I only knew about Anne because I recently took my God daughter to the tower and the Beefeater doing the tour took great delight in telling us all the gory details.
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DukeofDevo
1:52 Thu Feb 26
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Yeah the French swordsman was considered quicker and more 'humane'
Nice pair of loafers he slips off at the end!
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stomper
1:52 Thu Feb 26
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I thought that the French executioner got drunk and had to have 6 goes to get her head off.
Its Mary Queen of Scots who carried on praying after her decapitation.
I could be wrong.
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chim chim cha boo
1:48 Thu Feb 26
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Duke, you probably know this but as a final 'mercy' (after not having her burnt at the stake, which came across nicely in the court scene tonight) he hired the best executioner in France who used a sword when the English used an axe and block and would sometimes take five or six hacks before the head came off. It was thought that an English executioner would be so nervous at killing the queen that he'd almost certainly fuck it up.
Apparently she didn't see her executioner at all and her head came off so quickly that her mouth was still mumbling a prayer as her head rolled across the scaffold. It freaked out everyone who saw it and confirmed to some that she was a witch.
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Nurse Ratched
1:41 Thu Feb 26
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What??
Anne DIES??
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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DukeofDevo
1:36 Thu Feb 26
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Brilliantly made TV all genuine Tudor buildings Rylance brilliant
Nice touch from the swordsman at the end to get her to turn her head then a little side step ISIS could learn a thing or two from this!
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chim chim cha boo
1:34 Thu Feb 26
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Yes, that was fantastic. Harrowing how a little bit of bullshit from a kid who the queen has teased gets him burnt at the stake.
'You forget Cremweel, what has been made can be unmade'.
'I absolutely agree, your Highness'.
Brilliant. Not a wasted word or bit of fat in the whole series. As the Kronic says, I just wish it would have gone on because now I've got to find something else to watch and look forward to.
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The Kronic
12:40 Thu Feb 26
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That was fucking brilliant. Just gutted it was 6 episodes.
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daveyg
12:36 Thu Feb 26
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Brilliant TV.
Only thing worth watching.
Worth the licence fee on it's own.
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riosleftsock
12:04 Thu Feb 26
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Nicely staged beheading tonight.
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chim chim cha boo
9:14 Wed Feb 25
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Seeing Allardyce fan number one is actually Allardyce himself he's bound to say it's shit.
Even though it's got a big fella up top, Nolan's not in it.
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Allardyce Fan 1
6:38 Wed Feb 25
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It's so dull.
Saying that, I was getting ready to go out and the housemate had it on lol. I lasted 5 mins
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White Pony
4:28 Wed Feb 25
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It's shit.
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