Thank you for your input, Katherine. I have been watching the 2nd season and I so far the stories of More and Fisher aren't as riveting as Wolsey's was. I would think they should be more riveting stories, but they aren't. Maybe because More and Fisher knew what they signed up for while things just seemed to get away from Wolsey.
To each their own. Fisher's story always... gets to me. I usually cry over his final scene -- it's such a touching performance. And minus some quibbles (Thomas More never observed people being burned at the stake), I thought they did a nice job with Thomas More.
You know how film-makers are. A life due to illness or dying of natural causes is boooriiing. It must have killed Hirst to have Katherine of Aragon die in her bed. I think it was well done, however I'm sure he contemplated many other theatrical endings for her but, with such a central beloved historical character, he had to do right by her. I feel Wolsey was enough of a background character to mess with history a bit and make his death more meaningful and dramatic.
Well, he did invent that super sad scene of her hallucinating Mary. :P
I feel like Maria Doyle Kennedy's pregnancy undercut Katharine. I HOPE there would have been more scenes with her otherwise, because there is a lot to work with there that would really have shown the strength of her resistance -- including the time Charles Brandon tried to force her to move to a different castle, and she locked herself up in her room and told him he'd have to drag her out. The people loved her so much they surrounded the place, and Brandon "did not dare remove her person" and slunk off back to Henry.
One thing that greatly puzzles me is -- where is Anne's trial? I was SHOCKED they left that out. So much dramatic potential, sacrificed instead for invented plot lines such as the stupid romance between Thomas Wyatt and Katharine's maid. Tsk, tsk.
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