dresses, and HBO's Elizabeth I (oy!)
Apr. 29th, 2006 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newmoonstarFinally had the pictures developed from September's Renaissance faire. (We seriously need to invest in a digital camera one of these days!) They are SO gorgeous I could just die. They look like stills from a movie, it's so great! And now, of course, I REALLY want to get started on making another dress after seeing those. I finally decided on making a medieval dress, now that I've got the most gorgeous trim to match my blue fabric, but the problem now is figuring out how the heck the new serger works. And finding the time! I haven't even had time to sew the 1830's doll dress yet!
Watched Elizabeth I on HBO, assuming it would be bad, but lusting after the costumes (okay, and maybe Hugh Dancy too) nonetheless, and oh, my goodness, was it even worse than I thought it would be! Whoever wrote it (and I bet you anything it was a man) had absolutely no concept of what powerful women are actually like, let alone a grasp of the person Elizabeth herself was. I'm sorry, but if you're a queen, you don't throw temper tantrums because one of your courtiers is screwing around. And Helen Mirren was playing her like she was bi-polar! One minute she's screaming at someone, and the next she's fawning over someone else, and it was just highly strange. The costumes were beautiful, except for one dress that had a Medici ruff AND a wheel ruff, which frightened me greatly, but I still don't think it was worth it for all that. Masterpiece Theatre just did a Queen Elizabeth biopic that was million times better. And the HBO one was SO excessively, needlessly violent. Really awful graphic violence too. I was almost sick. I'm sorry, but there's no cause to show those kind of things on television. I know it's HBO, but they shouldn't carry it too far just because they can. Afterward I had to have an intensive session of watching four consecutive episodes of Ballykissangel just to calm me down and remind me that good television does exist.
Watched Elizabeth I on HBO, assuming it would be bad, but lusting after the costumes (okay, and maybe Hugh Dancy too) nonetheless, and oh, my goodness, was it even worse than I thought it would be! Whoever wrote it (and I bet you anything it was a man) had absolutely no concept of what powerful women are actually like, let alone a grasp of the person Elizabeth herself was. I'm sorry, but if you're a queen, you don't throw temper tantrums because one of your courtiers is screwing around. And Helen Mirren was playing her like she was bi-polar! One minute she's screaming at someone, and the next she's fawning over someone else, and it was just highly strange. The costumes were beautiful, except for one dress that had a Medici ruff AND a wheel ruff, which frightened me greatly, but I still don't think it was worth it for all that. Masterpiece Theatre just did a Queen Elizabeth biopic that was million times better. And the HBO one was SO excessively, needlessly violent. Really awful graphic violence too. I was almost sick. I'm sorry, but there's no cause to show those kind of things on television. I know it's HBO, but they shouldn't carry it too far just because they can. Afterward I had to have an intensive session of watching four consecutive episodes of Ballykissangel just to calm me down and remind me that good television does exist.
