#i find it weird that wolf hall bbc was praised (sometimes solely; it seemed) for lack of nudity
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was the tudors 'oversexualized', or was that just how tv was back then?
#like; there were some scenes i could have done ... without#however i did recently watch the bbc tobg and was SHOCKED at how blue it was#hviii 2003 was probably worse (mainly bcus of the SA scenes; not to mention the 08 tobg movie had that too)#so that's like...all the context of its premiere#i think it was probably viewed more by showtime as staying competitive (rome hbo was just before)#but also arguably it wasn't a genre deviation. at the time .#i find it weird that wolf hall bbc was praised (sometimes solely; it seemed) for lack of nudity#esp when you know the source material#and i'm not even talking about sex persay i'm talking about things left out in the translation of the adaptation#that are like...oh this would push the 'rating'#in the book anne's 'i'm jezebel you see' speech is bookended by her snorting about how catherine couldn't be pushed out a window#bcus she's too f a t#and just his internal dialogue does not make it into script by version of it being...that#if they gave him the line of 'splayed cunt' from the original would it have received the same accolades? who knows#but yeah blue#in dialogue in the books where the adaptation it's not#dark and blue. arguably#shelton saying thomas boleyn would've sold his daughters naked at a 'barbary market'...#etc.
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