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For those who love the series The Tudors probably embrace revisionist history. If the writer's stuck to what actualy happened -- accurate -- then I would say the series was "decent."

Nontheless, since they essentially re-wrote history thus making the era a completely farce and sexed up the series for ratings then, I will stand by my claim that the show isutter shit. Furthermore, JRM is completely miscast as Henry VIII. The actor, Steve Waddingham, who played The Duke of Buckingham should have been cast in the lead. Besides his remarkable resemblance to Henry, Steve Waddingham is a strong convining actor to play the great 'ole king.

FYI, here is a small list of major inaccuracies:

1. The murder of Henry's "uncle". Why did they have to create a relative and have him murdered by French hands? That never happened, and yet Henry still had reasons for going to war with France. I would rather see what his real reasons were. Why couldn't the show have had both sisters Mary and Margaret - so they could at least have put the right events with the right sister.

2. Thomas Tallis appears to have no conection with the plot and didn't appear at court until after Ann Boleyn was beheaded. So what's he doing there?

3. The alterations made in regards to Henry VIII's sisters, I find quite annoying. I find it highly unnecessary. I assume the changes were made due to the fact that Henry VIII had a daughter named Mary and a sister also with this name and they did not want the two to be confused. Yet I don't think the audience would be as silly to confuse these two; Mary Tudor, Henry's daughter, was hardly in this whilst 'Margaret' got more scenes, and there are several Thomas's on the show who are sometimes referred to by their first names instead of their titles yet no one is confused by this. And of course by omitting one sister they have basically rewriting history. I assume the Stewarts don't exist considering we never hear of them and if we have no James V, and therefore Mary I of Scotland and James VI, then I wonder who will inherit the English throne in 1603.