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Pretty boring

posted 8 years ago by xriotheatx
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I found myself bored throughout this. If it was more than six episodes I doubt I would've lasted.

The same piece of music repeated over and over, I felt as if I were in an alpha MMORPG with just a piece of temp music on a loop at times.

The costumes looked cheap and nowhere near as good as the costumes in The Tudors which had a lot more detail.

The Tudors by Showtime is so much better than this in many ways.

The colors were so dasaturated in this, and the lighting was the poorest I've seen in pretty much any period drama series. The general look of the video with the goosed white balance and desaturated colors made it look like an early 1990s soap opera filmed with a betamax camera.

Not much action, certainly not as much as The Tudors. Early on in season one of The Tudors, HRH King Henry VIII challenges the King of France to a duel. Where was this sort of thing in Wolf Hall?

Also preferred Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill's Cardinal Wolsey to the one in this. Sir Neill's performance made Wolsey look scary and not a man to mess with. This Wolsey in Wolf Hall looked gentle as a lamb and ever so friendly with everyone. Not a mean bone in his body.

I also preferred Natalie Dormer's Anne Boleyn; and Jeremy Northam as Thomas Moore. I also wasn't thrilled with Damian Lewis's HRH King Henry VIII; though I also didn't really like Jonathan Rhys Meyers either. Neither one looked morbidly obese as HRH King Henry VIII did.

All around, The Tudors completely trounces and runs circles around this. I will give Wolf Hall one plus over The Tudors though: It didn't waste screen time on pointless sex scenes like The Tudors often did. Sex and romance are the universal fillers of television with no purpose.

[–] best_of 8 years ago

Yes Wolf Hall is subtle, and not for everyone. I suggest you go back to the Hunger Games and Fast'n'Furious for the excitement you crave. Steer clear of intellectual content altogether.

[–] ghislaine1 8 years ago

The Tudors had a lot of historical inaccuracies, including abolishing the Grey and Stewart lines. Henry was not obese in his young manhood age, so showing him as a handsome young man is accurate.

[–] JaneCat 8 years ago

The colors were so desaturated in this, and the lighting was the poorest I've seen in pretty much any period drama series. The general look of the video with the goosed white balance and desaturated colors made it look like an early 1990s soap opera filmed with a betamax camera.

The indoor lighting in Wolf Hall is realistic. People lived by candle light back then and that's what it was like inside buildings. I admit, it took away a little from the costumes and the surroundings. I do like to see more details, but I still enjoyed the darkness.

Tip: It helps to turn the lights off in your room while you're watching the show.

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[–] kyleg1461 8 years ago

The irony of people complaining about the look of the costumes is that they're all more or less accurate reproductions of Tudor clothing, based on artwork and surviving examples. They deliberately left out cod pieces though because apparently modern audiences find them silly.

Especially ironic when compared to The Tudors which puts its cast in either very stylized late Elizabethan or generic ye olde worlde costumes

http://www.frockflicks.com/top-5-costume-inaccuracies-in-wolf-hall/

[–] ablack90 8 years ago

I really liked Wolf Hall but I will agree the music was bad.

[–] MsEmmaFrost 8 years ago

The costumes are perfect. They look lived in and are made of the proper material. Women wear the correct headpieces. And you can see all the pins keeping the clothes together. Finally a production that understands how Tudor clothing was constructed!

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[–] !!!deleted!!! (2212087) 8 years ago

Sir Neill's

Am I missing something here? Why refer to Sam Neill as Sir Neill. I gather that the reference is based on his refusal of a knighthood, but referring to him as Sir Neill makes about as much sense and is as humorous as Marilyn Monroe believing she was correct in referring to Laurence Olivier as Sir Olivier when making "The Prince and the Showgirl."