While watching the Tudors this afternoon, I realized what a brilliant idea this show has hit upon:
You can take the most memorable detail about someone and CHANGE it!
For instance, we can all recall pictures of Henry VIII(paintings I should say…. ugh, how 20th Century am I?). What do we know? He’s fat! I mean, he’s got a grand old pot belly. But when they cast Jonathan Rhys Meyers–they essentially said, let’s just take all the fascinating backstory and insane plot of Henry VIII’s life but just make him young, fit, and good looking!
Problem solved! Ready for TV!
Think of all the other famous people you could make into palatable tv shows. Good Looking GENGHIS KHAN. No longer vertically challenged NAPOLEON! And of course…. Sexy HITLER!
Okay, sorry guys, gotta go and scramble to write all of this up.
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Sidenote: In the EP I watched(I live in Hollywood now so I no longer feel the need to write out episode), Hank roughly treats a messenger. You know, the whole “Kill The Messenger” thing. He doesn’t kill him, but he gives him a good rodgering. (I’m watching a show set in England so I feel the need to pepper my dialogue with British slang.)(Who is THE Rodger and what in the hell did he do to deserve to become immortal in slang this way?)
It got me to thinking… messenger has to be kind of bottom-of-the-barrel in ancient times right? I mean, who does this? Knowing that you’ll face certain death when bringing bad news. Also, conversely, if you’re bringing good news does it come around? Like, do you get some free sex from the king’s harem? Well, surely a good tip I suppose.
Also, I wonder if people of the ancient world would consult each other on how much to tip messengers like my roommate and I talk about how much to tip the pizza guy. Had to, right? That’s what I thought.
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