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The Tudors

  • 16-06-2009 11:27pm
    #1
    ItsYourTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭


    Just watched the last episode of the third series of the excellent The Tudors there on TV3. I have to say it's top notch viewing.

    However I have to say for some reason I found the end of this series really unsettling. It's so dark and twisted. Thomas Cromwell, who was King Henrys right hand man for years was stitched up by the jealous members of the kings parliament and charged with treason and executed! The execution was cruel! The executioner was fed with drink the night before the execution by those who stitched up Cromwell and he made a hash of the execution, hacking his back 3 or 4 times before a soldier steped in to behead him! Now I've never been bothered by violence in films and TV before but there's something about the executions in the tudors that are unsettling. Does anybody else find this??


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  • #2
    Luuca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37 ✭Luuca


    Found this on Wiki earlier....

    Thomas Cromwell was executed at the Tower on July 28, 1540, the same day that the king went on to marry Catherine Howard. After his execution, Cromwell's head was boiled and then set upon a spike on London Bridge, facing away from the City of London.

    Henry came to regret Cromwell's execution. About eight months after his execution, Henry accused his ministers of bringing about Cromwell's downfall by false charges and said he now realised that Cromwell was the most faithful servant he had ever had.

    It proves that King Henry and his entourage were tyrants !


  • #3
    Tasha90
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭Tasha90


    that ****** killed thousands of innocent civilians in ireland!! he deserved it


  • #4
    scop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 687 ✭✭✭scop


    Tasha90 wrote: »
    that ****** killed thousands of innocent civilians in ireland!! he deserved it

    It's a different Cromwell.


  • #5
    Tasha90
    Registered Users Posts: 48 ✭Tasha90


    scop wrote: »
    It's a different Cromwell.

    sorry, :confused: dont watch tudors. embarrased now lol



    ....now i see it thomas cromwell and not oliver!!!! embarrasing


  • #6
    Jenroche
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭Jenroche


    Tasha90 wrote: »
    that ****** killed thousands of innocent civilians in ireland!! he deserved it

    That was OLIVER CROMWELL....completely different person.

    The reason the execution was grim is because that was exactly what happened back then. Life was grim in Tudor times and I'm glad that the maker of The Tudors don't try to sugar-coat it.

    The reason the Lords stitched up Cromwell was because they didn't like seeing a 'commoner' getting raised so high by the King. It made them feel insecure, so they decided they had to go and advised Henry accordingly. Which goes to show, you can't always believe what you're being told.

    They didn't show the execution of Lady Salisbury (Cardinal Pole's mother) but when she was being executed, she refused to lie down on the block for the executioner and he ended up chasing her around the scaffold trying to carry out the deed. Sounds funny, but it wasn't really.

    Jen ;->


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  • #7
    sceptre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Tasha90 wrote: »
    sorry, :confused: dont watch tudors. embarrased now lol



    ....now i see it thomas cromwell and not oliver!!!! embarrasing
    Oh, you're still being as coherent as anyone who ever received their Irish history education at the end of a cane from a Christian brother.

    Admittedly I'm quite disappointed with the education handed out at the end of those canes but anyhoo...

    On-topic, the Tudors is quite good.
    ItsYourTime wrote: »
    The executioner was fed with drink the night before the execution by those who stitched up Cromwell and he made a hash of the execution, hacking his back 3 or 4 times before a soldier steped in to behead him! Now I've never been bothered by violence in films and TV before but there's something about the executions in the tudors that are unsettling. Does anybody else find this??
    Historically more common than you'd think. I didn't see the end of season 2 but assuming they slotted Anne Boleyn's execution as the series finale, she should have been beheaded with a sword like French pre-guillotine executions (she requested the sword), again with multiple attempts. Blades weren't as sharp as they might have been either. Unfortunately, it's pretty brutal and it was.


  • #8
    Jenroche
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭Jenroche


    Its brilliant. One of my favourite shows....but then I'm a Tudor-history nut anyway. ;)

    Jen ;->


  • #9
    Lizzykins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Lizzykins


    Seemingly Oliver Cromwell was a grand nephew of Thomas Cromwell. I haven't been watching The Tudors but I did see the end of the episode where Thomas Cromwell was executed. God it was awful. And as for poor Lady Salisbury-she was 70 if she was a day and a feisty old dear from all accounts. She had probably a better claim to the throne than Henry as she was a niece of Richard 111.
    I think the hanging ,drawing and quartering was absolutely barbaric and they were doing that up to 1803 as I think Robert Emmet was executed that way too.


  • #10
    Roses are red
    Registered Users Posts: 64 ✭✭Roses are red


    Love the Tudors.Brilliant show.


  • #11
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    There's an interminable report of Thomas Cromwell's trial, alleged crimes (including 'buggery' and 'heresy' - a fit-up if ever I've heard one) and also of the old dame Salisbury, available for perusal on Google Books - search for "A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason" and you should find it.

    Salisbury refused to put her head on the block, saying crisply that this was for traitors and she was none. The hapless executioner (presumably the same drunk as topped Cromwell) tried to persuade her that it was all the fashion, but she wouldn't listen to reason and told him if he wanted her head he'd have to come and get it, and so he "took it off slovenly". Revolting. Savages.


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  • #12
    Jenroche
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 280 ✭✭Jenroche


    You have to hand it to them....they made an art of torture and execution. And then had the cheek to call themselves 'civilised'. Clearly shows where the phrase "Getting mediaeval on your ass" comes from.

    I'm new to this forum but I have a criticism to make of series 2....why did they completely leave out Anne Boleyn's trial? I couldn't believe it when I saw her just being thrown in the Tower. Thought that was a bit of a cop-out, it would have made for a great episode, the feisty Anne facing her accusers. But she never got a chance to defend herself...most dissapointing.

    Jen ;->


  • #13
    Danny1980
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23 ✭Danny1980


    I love that series...brilliantly done! I love the costumes and locations and in general I have gotten mad about that part in english history. Would be great to connect with other fans here...


  • #14
    iguana
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,916 ✭✭✭✭iguana


    Jenroche wrote: »
    Clearly shows where the phrase "Getting mediaeval on your ass" comes from.

    Except that the medieval period was long over at this point. The Tudor reign occurred during the Renaissance.

    I want to enjoy The Tudors but the history is so bloody awful and the real events were just so much more fascinating than anything that could be made up about them.


  • #15
    califano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,440 ✭✭✭califano


    Sorry for draging up an old thread but im in the final few episodes of season4 and wondered is that the annoying twat from the meteor tv add(Tra la la la la la la la la) i spotted in it as an ace bow&arrow marksman as they take over Bologne?.


  • #16
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Yes, same actor

    Pretty much anyone who acts in Ireland got a part in The Tudors at some stage

    Good few from Glenroe for example, familiar faces


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