The King's Speech and HIMYM

Jan 04, 2011 00:25

I saw The King's Speech!
It was incredible. )

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liminalliz January 4 2011, 14:44:45 UTC
V. QUICK, MOAR LATER: I think (and this is just conjecture rn, but I wish to find out for certain!) that there are two main differences between Henry VIII and Edward's Sexy Situation are ( ... )

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mangojellytoast January 4 2011, 15:43:57 UTC
ahhh those both make excellent sense. I think the second one mostly because by the time Edward was king he didn't really have any real power~, so the government could be like "No." Whereas Jonathan Rhys Meyers could have surely handwaved all of the other stuff and been like "MY ENGLAND MY RULES, I GET TO MARRY THE AMERICAN SKANK."

Catherine Parr was OKAY because despite the fact taht she had THREE HUSBANDS PREVIOUS, she's a widow on all accounts. I guess.
Haha, yes widow obviously > divorcee. They kept being like "Wallis has two former husbands STILL LIVING (If only she had had them killed this would all be okay!)"

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carmen January 4 2011, 20:06:17 UTC
HIMYM killed me. As soon as he called his dad I knew it though. I said it, but I still totally cried. Like, legit crying with tears rolling down the cheeks and everything.

Ugh.

Also, yes, having Bellatrix wasn't an issue until Wormtail showed up also, and then I started deciding they were in cahoots and that Hitler was actually Grindelwald. Obviously.

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mangojellytoast January 4 2011, 21:38:37 UTC
yeah, the empty chair made me go "hmm" but I was still totally struck by it when they actually KILLED him.

DUMBLEDORE WAS GEORGE V. Big old reunion movie all around.

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mangojellytoast January 4 2011, 22:52:50 UTC
Seriously! It was harder to handle than most of the dramas I watch have ever been. My flist and twitter and facebook last night were all full of people being like "WHAT WAS THAT? WHY DID THEY DO THIS TO US?"

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