Lucrezia's face at "3" was possibly the best moment of the entire show.
Do you know how accurate Sforza's treatment of Lucrezia is? While I haven't exactly done an in depth study of the Borgias (yet) but I haven't found a lot of details about their marriage save for the 6 months and living in the country and then the annulment, but niothing about their actual relationship. But every fictionalization I've encountered has him being awful to her. Given that Cesare and Rodrigo jettison his behind out of her life the second he's no longer politically useful and Cesare basically makes trying to obliterate him a hobby after that, it does seem to be a reasonable conclusion. (Though Cesare was probably just a teeny bit miffed about those silly incest rumors, too.)
With Ursula, I suspect that it's a combination of Cesare's attachment to the women in his own family + worried they didn't do the right thing with Lucrezia (I agree with the vague resemblance) + plus him apparently having a bit of a "tarnished white knight" complex at times, it seems + plus her situation coming up almost in the same breath as Ursula's husband trying to publicly humiliate his mother. (Dude was basically dead just for that, I think.) I did like how Ursula realized that she had the interest and sympathy of a powerful man and just leaped in and took the gamble that he'd be willing to help her, and thought it made since that she later worried that she may have asked him to endanger himself.
I'm surprised by how much I like (or at least enjoy) Juan. He's just such...a frat boy. A spoiled one with an overly indulgent, powerful daddy.
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Date: 2011-05-01 03:21 am (UTC)Lucrezia's face at "3" was possibly the best moment of the entire show.
Do you know how accurate Sforza's treatment of Lucrezia is? While I haven't exactly done an in depth study of the Borgias (yet) but I haven't found a lot of details about their marriage save for the 6 months and living in the country and then the annulment, but niothing about their actual relationship. But every fictionalization I've encountered has him being awful to her. Given that Cesare and Rodrigo jettison his behind out of her life the second he's no longer politically useful and Cesare basically makes trying to obliterate him a hobby after that, it does seem to be a reasonable conclusion. (Though Cesare was probably just a teeny bit miffed about those silly incest rumors, too.)
With Ursula, I suspect that it's a combination of Cesare's attachment to the women in his own family + worried they didn't do the right thing with Lucrezia (I agree with the vague resemblance) + plus him apparently having a bit of a "tarnished white knight" complex at times, it seems + plus her situation coming up almost in the same breath as Ursula's husband trying to publicly humiliate his mother. (Dude was basically dead just for that, I think.) I did like how Ursula realized that she had the interest and sympathy of a powerful man and just leaped in and took the gamble that he'd be willing to help her, and thought it made since that she later worried that she may have asked him to endanger himself.
I'm surprised by how much I like (or at least enjoy) Juan. He's just such...a frat boy. A spoiled one with an overly indulgent, powerful daddy.