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[hail-dondus]

I started writing this post back in 2021 when I first watched The Tudors, but never finished it; when I finished Season 1, I really wanted to talk about a certain scene in the final episode - there’s a lot to talk about with the show and the time period (especially regarding religion and women etc), but at the time I wanted to talk about this scene in the sense of the cinematography/parallels/music. I actually did have many bullet points about all of this that I intended to discuss.

Now that Sam Neill has passed away, though, I honestly just want to share this scene to appreciate his performance in The Tudors even though he was in it only for one season - obviously he was most well known for the Jurassic series (another of my favourite things of all time) but I want to take a moment to appreciate his role here.

⚠️ TW for suicide, blood, religion, there’s some performers pretending to be devils/Satan/there’s some imagery of hell I guess? ⚠️

Disclaimer: I screenrecorded this video from a dodgy website and uploaded it to this post years ago so I hope it works. Just in case, you can also see this scene on YouTube here and a slightly edited but higher definition version can be found at the five minute mark in this video.

So, any historical inaccuracy aside, this is probably one of my favourite scenes in the Tudors; regardless of what I think of Thomas Wolsey, I loved Sam Neill as an actor, he was great in everything he did and this was no different.

[mikelogan]

REST IN PEACE, SAM NEILL (1947-2026)

Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, & Jurassic World Dominion

[ashen-crest]

I can do it. I can write a chapter. I am capable of putting sentences together. I know what a comma is. I am Aware of the Character.

[lordeisonfire]

Sam Neill’s dream, if anyone wants a good cry.

[hail-dondus]

Finding out Hans Zimmer is a transphobe genuinely had me falling to my knees

[cartoonistfreak101]

Thank you blastybaku for explaining this!/gen

[poetry-protest-pornography]

If you've ever heard a movie score and thought "holy shit, this is incredible", there's like, a 50% chance it was Hans Zimmer who composed it.

This is a pretty major letdown, ngl.

Anyways, fuck transphobes, which includes Hans Zimmer, apparently.

[excessively-english-jd]

Anyway shoutout to John Williams, amazing composer and probably the one who made the other 50% of "holy shit amazing" soundtracks (Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Superman, and incidentally the original Harry Potter theme and score) who famously worked closely with the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, Angela Morley. He respected her, and so far as I can see, has never made transphobic remarks.

[ceruleanheaven]

nikki begging bear to kill her and all he does is ask whats so bad about being with him. one of the most nauseating scenes ive ever witnessed

[modernmusess]

there’s something so gutwrenching about the fact that the female characters in obsession have real dreams and wishes but never get the chance to see them realized, while both male characters waste their wishes on short-term selfish satisfaction. they were complex, free-spirited young women who just wanted to create art, and they were destroyed by a man determined to confine them to his superficial perception of them. nikki wanted to be a writer, sarah wanted to be a tattoo artist and now neither of them will get to be anything at all

[everydaydreamer]

Good lord this man is beautiful

[young-vandal]

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!

[hail-dondus]

Dude how many kids does Max Cady have in the series? 😭 First it was Naveah, then Natalie might be/probably is his kid, apparently that creepy teen outside his dad’s place is his son with Crystal (who’s also his half-sister)… So many of the teens in this show are Max’s kids apparently, man was busy 😭💀

Also how much incest is going on in this show? Naveah and Natalie were still getting it on even though they’re probably half-sisters through Max, Max got his own half-sister pregnant, the son he apparently had with Crystal was being creepy and wanting a kiss off Natalie who might also be his half-sibling… what the fuck is actually going on in this show?

Side note, the second half of this series has seriously underused Joe Anders - hell, even the first half of the series just seemed to have him staring creepily, completely out of it the entire time. Maybe he’s going to be prominent in the finale but still, I wish we’d seen more of him.

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

ADHD & Self-Limiting Beliefs

Future ADHD

[modernmusess]

the difference in hunger games narrators is so funny to me like this is our starting lineup

katniss: i go to a place and do a thing using a skill. also everyone hates me. oh you want to know more about myself? here are four straight paragraphs just describing food instead.

haymitch: so the baker’s in love with my best friends girl and my girlfriend’s uncle is gay and secretly dating the town window-fixer and she’s actually related to lucy gray and has beef with the mayors daughter who bullied me and her social security number is—

snow: everyone here is UGLY and OBNOXIOUS and TACKY and I Am God.

[damn-stark]

MY BOY I SEE YOU!!!

[hail-dondus]

I feel like your defense of Meg March in Little Women (2019) aged poorly since so many women nowadays are actually researching feminist as a sociopolitical ideology and realized that choice feminism is depoliticalizing the movement.

…huh? I’m so confused, could you please dumb this down for me? 😭

[victoria-pedretti]

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION 2026 — dir. Brett Haley

[haleyatwell]

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION (2026) dir. Brett Haley