[ SECRET POST #5863 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5863 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I agree, we need more of the King who brought back partying.

[(Anonymous)]

WHERE is my hilarious romcom about the Merrie Monarch attempting to balance his relationships with all of his many mistresses I ask of u

[(Anonymous)]

The Stuart era is much more interesting imo but also much more alien and more difficult to translate into modern terms

[(Anonymous)]

How so? If anything they were far more modern than the true absolutist monarchs of the Tudor era.

[(Anonymous)]

The Tudors have two storylines (Henry's break from Rome & Elizabeth's struggle to have and keep her throne) that are easy to explain to audiences and have plenty of intrigue. The Stuarts...you have to know lot of context already, I think. Like about Mary of Scots and how that effected James VI/I.

And it's just not as high drama. William & Mary giving up so much power to Parliament made the royals less consequential. The English Revolution isn't as crazy as the French one.

The costuming, though. Would love to see more set in this time period just for the fashion.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, modern royals (Victoria onward) have even less power and there's plenty of TV about them!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. The English Civil War, the Restoration and the Glorious Revolution are absolutely very interesting (although personally I would prefer a series that focused on continental politics during the same period over English politics). But the problem is that they're all very involved and intricate and tortuous. They're not big, simple, punchy emotional stories.

And also - you can do the Tudors as a soap opera. You can do the American Revolution and expect people to think of the Americans as just being "the good guys". You can do the French Revolution and do the politics in a way that lines up with modern politics.

You can't do any of that with the Stuart period. They're not a gripping soap opera, exactly. It's incredibly unclear who counts as "the good guys". And the politics don't really line up with modern categories at all.

[(Anonymous)]

We just had "The Favourite" so I hope this inspires more Stuart stuff. All the inheritance/ Glorious Revolution shenanigans with James II/VII and his successor daughters definitely needs more.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell yeah, OP. I'm down with other periods in British history getting some more love in general, unless it's going to be one of those mostly modernish soap opera dramas where people just wear slightly historical clothing, with the names of historical figures.

[(Anonymous)]

My only hesitance around this is that with any historical period, you first have to go through a ton of inaccurate, shoddy stuff that plays fast and loose with the facts. Look at how many years of make-believe, inaccuracy and unnecessary embellishment we had to sit through until we finally got Becoming Elizabeth, which is hands down the most shockingly accurate (and amazing!) portrayal of a Tudor period ever made outside of a historical documentary. I am SO MAD it got canceled.

[meadowphoenix]

I have to agree with you OP, in that Anne and Mary accusing James' wife of faking her pregnancy so that they could steal the throne from out from under him seems perfectly tailored for this zeitgeist. Like, yes that was just an flimsy excuse and not even the primary one...but what an excuse.

[(Anonymous)]

Only if it is the Stuarts pre-James VI, otherwise they've been done just as much to death. Especially Charles I.

Frankly though, the House of Alpin was waaay more interesting than any of the others.