The Borgias 1x04 - Lucrezia's Wedding
Apr. 18th, 2011 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
loony_moonyOh dear, oh dear.
I have 4 thoughts, this week:
1. Jeremy Irons is finally stopping chewing the scenery. It's about time. Can't watch a show about the Borgias when Rodrigo is so annoying.
1.5. Ditto about the Farnese actress. She was kinda punchable.
2. DAVID BAMBER! OH SWEET PETE, WHAT A GLORIOUS PIECE OF CASTING.
3. I really like how they're playing the Lucrezia/Cesare thing. Nothing untoward (yet), but it's obviously an affection beyond mere sibling love, blown out of porportion by others.
4. Speaking of untoward things, that rape scene was so full of dnw. I wouldn't put it past the real Giovanni Sforza to behave that way, but man. :/
4.5 To be entirely cynical, though, it does pave the way nicely to Lucrezia seeking consolation with Cesare and finding it in more ways than one.
Interestingly enough, the original marriage contract between Lucrezia Borgia and Giovanni Sforza stipulated that she stays in Rome for a year after the wedding, and the marriage would not be consummated for a year. Either the series' timeline flew through that year, or simply ignored that detail. This is particularly peculiar, since the non-consummation coupled with the stay in Rome would've definitely contributed to Sforza's later accusations of Lucrezia having incestuous sex.
I have 4 thoughts, this week:
1. Jeremy Irons is finally stopping chewing the scenery. It's about time. Can't watch a show about the Borgias when Rodrigo is so annoying.
1.5. Ditto about the Farnese actress. She was kinda punchable.
2. DAVID BAMBER! OH SWEET PETE, WHAT A GLORIOUS PIECE OF CASTING.
3. I really like how they're playing the Lucrezia/Cesare thing. Nothing untoward (yet), but it's obviously an affection beyond mere sibling love, blown out of porportion by others.
4. Speaking of untoward things, that rape scene was so full of dnw. I wouldn't put it past the real Giovanni Sforza to behave that way, but man. :/
4.5 To be entirely cynical, though, it does pave the way nicely to Lucrezia seeking consolation with Cesare and finding it in more ways than one.
Interestingly enough, the original marriage contract between Lucrezia Borgia and Giovanni Sforza stipulated that she stays in Rome for a year after the wedding, and the marriage would not be consummated for a year. Either the series' timeline flew through that year, or simply ignored that detail. This is particularly peculiar, since the non-consummation coupled with the stay in Rome would've definitely contributed to Sforza's later accusations of Lucrezia having incestuous sex.
