The Hollow Crown: Henry V.

And "It's Hard Out There For A Lancaster" comes to its conclusion as director Thea Sharrock is in the inenviable position of having to compete with Olivier and Branagh direction wise (though hey, at least it's not Orson Welles she's up against, which was director Richard Eyre's lot in the last installment). Her leading man has no problems in that department, but the cinematography is not quite all that. Never mind, it's excellent Shakespeare tv.

( Invading France, The Advanced Class )

Thirty Days of Borgias: Day Twelve

Day 12 ~ Historical Crackship: Who belongs together, time and space be damned?

Well, I have one that would actually work, date wise, without needing to bend time and space: Micheletto/Michelangelo Buoanarotti. The young Michelangelo came to Rome during the time Rodrigo was Pope. So: he's surly tempered, very competitive (ask Leonardo), brooding and given to sarcasm, good with his hands, with a surprising gift for words given his main field of genius was being a sculptor with a sideline of painting (but really, the man wrote some fantastic sonnets), a canny businessman (ask Not Pope Yet della Rovere, with whom he later negotiated re: Sixtine Chapel), and definitely had, to quote the show, an appreciation of the male torso. IS HE MICHELETTOS TYPE OR WHAT?

If you want a time and space bending crack ship, though, I have tosay one of the reasons why River Song gets along so well with Father Octavian in Time of the Angels is that she had a fling with Rodrigo and is feeling a bit nostalgic. She'd have mentioned it except that nobody is shocked to hear such things about the Borgia Pope, so really, what's the point of kiss and tell?



( The rest of the days )