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King and Conqueror

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RosieandherMaw Mon 25-Aug-25 09:34:55

In need of something not too demanding (Covid brain) I turned to the first episode of this last night. Oh did I say I’ve always had a bit of a thing for James Norton?
I gave up after 20 minutes of banal dialogue, much shouting, “Father!” , “Harold!” “Sweyn!” ( had to look that one up) and “William!” - no not a rerun the Wales v Sussex bunfight but with muddier faces.
Might as well have been.
Underwhelmed.

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Granmarderby10 Sat 20-Sept-25 22:53:19

So…..The battle that defined our nation “reimagined” as a soap and a very poor quality one at that! What a terrible waste of very good actors.
I’ve just -on a whim, searched and found that all the Horrible Histories kids tv series are available on iplayer, so I’ve saved them, they are actually more historically faithful than this.

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Allira Sat 20-Sept-25 23:24:13

😂

Time to re-read 1066 And All That!

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MayBee70 Sat 20-Sept-25 23:45:13

I’m still listening to podcasts about that period of history ( the latest one being the Emma of Normandy one on You’re Dead to Me and one which went into great detail about the battle…in that one was the man who made that excellent series about The Normans) and still think that it was a period of time that was far too complicated to make a tv series of so I think they rather cleverly cherry picked events that happened over thirty years and crammed them into just a few. So, even though Edward didn’t murder his mum he really really didn’t like her and probably felt like throttling her at times. And she had tried to get him wiped out at one time, too. I reckon I’m the only person on the planet who, after watching it three times ended up really liking it!

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