Discussion: No Time Wasted with the Executions - SPOILER ALERT for Episode 9

"I can't. I can't even imagine how difficult it was on the actors. I also don't like the way they made it appear as though Anne had sanctioned the poisoning of Katherine and Mary. Katherine died of cancer, as did Mary when she was Queen.

I know Anne must have been almost insane with fear and grief at that time; especially with the hormones from pregnancy and miscarriage going wild. This season was supposed to be about Anne, but it seems to be more about getting rid of her than her actual reign."

"Yeah, Henry and Anne must have been pretty happy during the nine months she was pregnant with Elizabeth, but they just race through that. And now that I've seen all but two episodes, my overall feeling is that they don't want us liking Anne. I watched Episode 8 again last night, and the definite insinuation is that Katherine was poisoned with her approval. Then they show George (whom we're also suppose to hate) talking about not needing to poison Mary because she's so sick, and Anne is smiling that evil little smile of hers. There's no evidence she was involved in trying to poison either person. Katherine did in fact die of cancer.
I think a good question for a new thread would be, "Did Henry really think Anne was guilty?""

"I also wondered why Katherine's servants weren't tasting her food for her? The one or 2 she had left were extremely dedicated to her. Divorced or not, she was still royalty."

"I've often tried to imagine how horrible it was for Anne to be abandoned by Henry and so many other people and then accused of all those horrible lies. Also, imagine how horrible it was to know that George and those other men were going to also be executed and that she would never see her daughter Elizabeth again (in this life). Then imagine walking up that scaffold to your death on a beautiful May Day. And it all happened so fast. Anne was arrested, sentenced and executed in less than a month.
Ironically, if you think about it, people are still spreading lies about her."

"I just got back in the US and I saw episode 9 (thank God for TiVo) and I am in shock!!! I literally thought I was going to vomit watching Mark being tortured (what a sweet man), Anne pleading with THE PIG (Henry), with Elizabeth in her arms and the the be-headings and Anne in so much emotional pain, watching innocent men die - It is just too much. I think Anne should have done a Lorena Bobbitt on Henry after her last miscarriage. A few years back here in Houston, a women cut off her boyfriend's 'tally whacker" because he was screwing around on her and she threw "it" in the back yard and the dog ate it!!!! (It was in the newspaper and I cut the article out and put it on the mirror in the bathroom for my husband to read. It scared the sh_t out of him. I don't think he'll be messing around.) I am not even sure if I will be able to watch #10 - To watch Anne die will just throw me in to orbit!! Is anyone else feeling Anne's pain? Please tell me I am not nuts! "

"Is Thomas Tallis who you're referring to? If so, he is considered the father of English music. As far as an affair with William Compton, it never happened.
He was married once, but not to those sisters.
The actor who played Tallis is pursuing a music career, so he was written off the show."

"For some reason on the 1st season, I could not stand Anne, b/c remember I never educated myself with accurate accounts on the Tudor history. To me season 2 has explained or shown that a lot of Anne’s issues were just b/c she was going through so much pain, and stress from Henry. Love will love the hell out of you & the other person sometimes!

It was horrible what he put her through, and I thought he did KoA badly, but he was crueler towards Anne during their end. I think the show also wanted to raise curiosity of the poisoning rumors, but as a viewer I just thought they showed Katherine dying from an illness. At the time they would not have known of cancer, and of course Henry would suggest poisoning, and all her other enemies, but I believe she just talked about it out of her hatred or jealousy, but never acted on it.

Though I understand Anne's position now, and empathize w/ her situation.... I do think that Anne was no innocent, but neither is Jane.
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"I just got back in the US and I saw episode 9 (thank God for TiVo) and I am in shock!!! I literally thought I was going to vomit watching Mark being tortured (what a sweet man), Anne pleading with THE PIG (Henry), with Elizabeth in her arms and the the be-headings and Anne in so much emotional pain, watching innocent men die - It is just too much. I think Anne should have done a Lorena Bobbitt on Henry after her last miscarriage. A few years back here in Houston, a women cut off her boyfriend's 'tally whacker" because he was screwing around on her and she threw "it" in the back yard and the dog ate it!!!! (It was in the newspaper and I cut the article out and put it on the mirror in the bathroom for my husband to read. It scared the sh_t out of him. I don't think he'll be messing around.) I am not even sure if I will be able to watch #10 - To watch Anne die will just throw me in to orbit!! Is anyone else feeling Anne's pain? Please tell me I am not nuts! "

"I wonder why they would introduce the homesexual affairs if none of them were true...that didn't make any sense..when they should have been including things like Anne, Percy, and her trial."