OK, the plot races at breakneck speed but the ease with which they dispense major characters is incredulous. No-one is ever around to catch the evil duo or is even guessing at their involvement. The balance is off on bad vs good and I'm losing interest fast.
sharekimanis wrote> OK, the plot races at breakneck speed but the ease with which they dispense major characters is incredulous. No-one is ever around to catch the evil duo or is even guessing at their involvement. The balance is off on bad vs good and I'm losing interest fast.I feel you, as I said in another thread, those two would be the greatest assassins the world has ever known and should really go out and start making mad money instead of worrying about a tiny-provincial town.
Yes, I completely agree. Major characters just bumped willy nilly by herbs and potions and nobody any the wiser. I found that hard to take as well.
shareCan understand that initially you would feel this way but, bear in mind medical care back then was very, very basic - no forensics! Adults rarely lived long, maybe into their 40's/50's, and sudden death due to unknown causes (then) not uncommon.
shareYou do not really need amazing medical science and forensics to understand that PersonA would greatly benefit from PeraonB's death and PersonB just happened to die shortly after PersonA figured that *beep* out.
Stupidity is the hallmark of humanity, the torch that is passed down throughout the ages.
do not really need amazing medical science and forensics to understand that PersonA would greatly benefit from PeraonB's death and PersonB just happened to die shortly after PersonA figured that *beep* out.
Anyone else notice in the scene where Prior Anthony get's drowned they cut to Godwyn for a reaction close up then when they cut back about a millisecond later to a wider shot & there's about thirty people standing around him. None of them are supposed to have seen what happened?
The villains in this adaptation are way too cartoonish & over the top for my liking.
Republicans dont watch stand up, theyre busy watching cartoons, trying to see who's gay.
"The villains in this adaptation are way too cartoonish & over the top for my liking. "
Completely agree. The baddies aren't even psychopathic, they're just idiots. Godwin runs around like a fool slaughtering half the nation, sometimes for little or no gain.
Well thats it. All done and dusted. Enjoyed it, on the whole. Sometimes a bit simplistic. At the end all the baddies get their just rewards, one two, three, all knocked down like skittles.King Edward 2nd was a bit of a suprise though.Loved that little one that went onto star in the latest movie edition of Les Miserables, he is excellent, for one so young.
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The villains in the book are cartoonish and way over the top. Honestly, the mini-series has its flaws, but the source material wasn't much better, if any. I bought the books on the strength of the vast number of rave reviews and found them to be appalling and a complete waste of money. I'm frankly stunned that there are apparently so many people who can care what happens to such unrealistic, one-dimensional, cardboard caricatures.
Edited to add: But it is ridiculous how the mini-series has people being murdered right and left with such dispatch and without anyone ever noticing.
"The villains in this adaptation are way too cartoonish & over the top for my liking."
I disagree. At any rate they're far less so than the villains in Pillars, who might as well have been walking around with neon signs floating over their heads saying "I'm evil!".