I have a choice

[guanin]

I can either keep writing silliness, keep reading Catherine of Aragon's fascinating biography and rail at Wolsey and Henry, or watch DW's "School Reunion" instantly on Netflix and wish CE had stuck around (although I do like DT's Doctor, I really do; don't look at me like that!). There's also Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. So many options! I don't know what to do!

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[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Create multiple copies of yourself and do all of it! That's what I do.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Ha ha1 That's a brilliant suggestion. I'm currently opting for DW for the silliness, but multitasking might occur.

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Silliness pretty much always wins, in my experience.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Of course. How can it not?

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

I think it's entirely appropriate that comment comes with a Dr. Manhattan outfit ;)

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

;)

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Aw, all of those options sound great. Especially if you do like DT.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

That's the one I went with, although I just watched that one episode, then promptly got swallowed by Catherine's biography. Oh, the intrigue.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

That poor woman. That whole family had worse luck then the Kennedys, if I remember correctly, what with the divorces and the insanity and the...I'm sure there was other stuff as well.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

One of the author's of the books I'm reading said that it's like a soap opera, and it's true! All of last night I kept imagining the scenes with that superdramatic music and the "mosquita muerta" insults and slapings of a telenovela. I seriously want to write a script about the Divorce, because I want to see that movie, although I have the urge to make totally silly.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I could buy that too. A historical telenovela but one that didn't try so hard to be serious (and fail anyway) as all the ones I've seen would be kind of brilliant. Wasn't Henry, like, significantly younger than she was when they married? I mean not like a baby but...there was an age gap.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

And silly movies make money, right? People love silliness. And it's so easy with this stuff. Although my instinct for drama is also pulling me in that direction. He was six years younger than her, which isn't much. At the beginning, they did have a good marriage (expect for the infidelities, of course), but the lack of a son was what freaked him out. And Anne put a spell on him or something.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Well, it really does depend on the silly movie, apparently. Mm, apparently they did like each other at first, even when she was still married to Arthur, but yeah, too bad about the son thing.

Also, irrelevant, but Milo in a leather jacket (http://community.livejournal.com/milo_fans/307634.html#cutid1) always deserves to be mentioned.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

Catherine never stopped loving him. She was in huge denial about Henry's part in the divorce and kept blaming it on his evil councilors, never him, oh no. Deep, deep denial.

Mmm. Always yummy, Milo.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Didn't he have her locked up at one point? I would hope that would've put a stop to the love. But nope, I guess not.

Isn't he just? And he actually smiled!

[guanin.livejournal.com]

No, not locked up. He lowered her status to Dowager Princess of Wales, the title she had before marrying him, and sent her to one of his lesser houses and banished her from court. She couldn't see Mary or Henry. But she keep loving him, by the tone of her letters, which is insane. So much denial, I can't believe it. And she never stopped signing her letters "Catherine, Queen of England".

Yay! Milo smiling!

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

That poor woman. But I guess when you're defined entirely on who you get married to and what country you represent, it's very difficult to lose that.

Might as well get it out of his system. I don't think the show is going to give him the chance to do it much.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

She never backed down from her position that she was Henry's true wife, which she was. If she had backed down, this whole insanity wouldn't have happened. She was equally stubborn after Arthur died and Henry VII wanted to marry his son to someone else even after he'd been betrothed to Catherine. This woman's whole life was insane.

Poor guy. Although at least he will get his laughs when they're not filming, but I miss seing Peter smile.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

That's probably true; the other one that Henry divorced (Anne of Cleves?) didn't get nearly as rough a time of it because she seemed okay with going through with it.

*sigh* I miss first season Peter so much. I mean, he's a little smarter and snarkier now, and I appreciate that, but a little happiness would be nice. I think he may get some the first episode or two before his life goes back to sucking.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

No, she was great with it. I find it interesting that they became very friendly after the duty of them having sex which each other (which neither wanted to do and never did) was taken out of the equation.

I'm so afraid of him finding out about Nathan. *weeps* Our poor Peter.

[visiblemarket.livejournal.com]

Well, perhaps that should be a lesson to us all. If you want a good male friend, you should get someone to marry you based on a portrait that doesn't show your flaws and then divorce him and you're set for life.

*sigh* Indeed. Another reason not to trust his mother, or Matt, or Noah, or anyone, ever, ever again.