Spunky Women

I am in deep despair since my two TV series have recently had their season finales. LOST - the fourth season has resurrected my love of this incredible series with characters I love and endless plot twists. I promise to write about it in the future...

The Tudors on Showtime has been a wonderful surprise - but why am I surprised? Jonathan Rhys-Meyer plays Henry VIII - although he is a much younger, thinner version - he plays the self-absorbed, gluttonous king very well. He's despicable and arrogant, yet very appealing. All the actors are beautiful, and the show is largely about sex.

Natalie Dormer has been superb as Anne Boleyn... sexy, spunky and brave, but I must say I was very disappointed in the finale - she was so reticent in accepting her fate - so unlike the boisterous Anne we had previously seen. And how could she talk so kindly of the king, the husband, that had condemned her?

'All these being on a scaffold made there for the execution, the said Queen Anne said as followeth: "Masters, I here humbly submit me to the law, as the law hath judged me, and as for mine offences, God knoweth them, I remit them to God, beseeching him to have mercy on my soul; and I beseech Jesu save my Sovereign and master the King, the most goodliest, and gentlest Prince that is, and long to reign over you, which words she spake with a smiling countenance: which done, she kneeled down on both her knees, and said, To Jesu Christ I commend my soul" and with that word suddenly the hangman of Calais smote off her head at one stroke with a sword: her body with the head was buried in the choir of the Chapel in the Tower." - http://englishhistory.net/tudor/exanne.html

Wait a minute! I thought I heard one of the two executed queens/wives of Henry VIII had run from her executioners and had to be forced down and beheaded... I would have expected that from Anne...the Anne played by Natalie Dormer. I fully expect an Emmy nomination and win for her.

She who laughs last... Let's hope that Natalie does win the Emmy and let us not forget...Anne and Henry's daughter Elizabeth I would take the throne eventually...