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AH OMG PHANTOM RANKING I'm so excited :D

Love the Tudors I have the box set

I hope one day you can speak about “Joanna “The Mad” of Castile, Queen of Sorrow”, she just had a unhappy and lonely life like her sister Catherine of Aragon for she remained imprisoned for 46 years

Looking forward to the full video!!

I quite like this movie. In fact I quite like almost all the Phantom movies, be they book faithful, semi-faithful or not faithful at all. Almost all of them have something that I like (yes, even the Argento one). Looking forward to see how many of these you intend to go through.

You are quickly becoming my Lindsay Ellis replacement and that’s nothing but a compliment

I'm one of those Phantom/Christine shippers, and yes, yes, I know he's a (literal) masked murderer, but we're all allowed our "problematic favs". That said, I think the most tragic of the "love story" versions of POTO is the 1990 made-for-TV movie starring Charles Dance (based off the Yeston/Kopit musical). Dance just breaks my heart in that role, and that version is one of the worst versions of Raoul, really can't understand why Christine chose him over Dance's Phantom

Will say Claud Rains is the most tragic of the phantoms.

51:25 like to remind me to come watch this again

Ignoring all the media, I wouldn't be surprised if Mary and Anne were playing the game "for the family", and Mary, by virtue of playing without example, fell in all the worst traps and became a blueprint of "what not to do" for Anne. Mary's one and only desicion for herself seems to be her second marriage, and I wouln't have been surprised if the fight between Anne and Mary would be Anne being angry Mary would hurt the Boleyn name with the scandal and Mary just wanting one thing for herself after all she'd done for the Boleyn name, which in this case it seems like a man who'd treat her like a person, maybe even love her. And when the family got together to draw the line in the sand, Mary was on the other side. When the family fell Mary was very much on the outside, which saved her, but it really must have hurt her to lose everyone in spirit, and then also in body, most likely without closure. It's sad and I wish she'd not be thrown off to the side as she is

I thought the first letter of her name began with a c😊

Kitty purrs are lovely. No need for apologies

And yet this recap still made more sense than the actual plot of my lady Jane

The serpent queen really spun me for a loop when Mary was first introduced, I kept pretending it was just another Mary that they're showing so I wouldn't claw my eyes out! 😭 Lovely video with excellent commentary ❤

Hi Alice, very nice review, I'm glad you're back to give us more enlightening and historical info on this entry. You mentioned possibly doing a best Henry the Eight countdown to number one, please do so we can all consider which portrayal gives us the best interpretation of one of the most recognizable and roughish monarchs to rule England.

Lynn Frederick was my favorite

34:45 i cracked 😂😭

There’s actually another book where she’s the main character. It’s called the last Boleyn and it’s more accurate than the other Boleyn girl

I have excised so much of Philippa Gregory's work from my mind and remembering stuff that happened in TOBG and The Constant Princess is giving me a stroke. She does such a disservice to both Anne and Mary. Also to KoA. I will say that while the 2003 adaptation of TOBG is not great, I love the actress's little tics and I think the hoods look great. Especially because the hoods in the other adaptation are so disgustingly atrocious and because I think ScarJo does such a poor job.

Finishing The Spanish Princess was torture for me. That ending… woof.

Love Pride and Prejudice movies all them have special charm

Your reviews are a pleasure to watch , keep up the good work xxx🥰

I would love to have a story where Mary is the older sister and is carefree about her history as a royal mistress, carefree enough to advise Anne how to manage Henry and support her until she meets Stanford and rethinks her entire views on relationships.

Great vidoe on Mary bolely

Mary chose her path instead of her family's ambition for power costing to be an outcast in the family after she remarried for her own heart.

Adelaide Kane helped introduce my LOVE of Mary Queen of Scots. I feel like she will be my top Mary. My lucky/favorite number is four, need I say more.

I made it to the end of this video, hurray! My favorite Halloween movie is Disney's "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad," but the first Halloween special I saw growing up was "A Disney Halloween Treat" from the late 80s. I am glad you've started this new series of "Typecast Tudors," and I have always had a really soft spot for Mary Boleyn. I'm glad she survived everything and got to marry a man who actually loved her, and she loved him back. Though it wasn't without struggles, she got to survive. I hope she and the family she created with William Stafford got to experience some relative peace together. As for other typecast Tudors, I'm still really excited for Thomas Cromwell to show up! I know he'll be covered when you reach 10k, but still. I'm glad to see you've now reached at least 7k, so we're closer, and that's really exciting. 😅😁

Love your work. :)

Amazing work, you do such a wonderful job! Any topic you cover is a treat. I hope you might finish Reign, you had me laughing so hard with those ;)

As always, a great video. You always seem to find sources I have never seen, or even heard of. My favorite Halloween film is "The Nightmare Before Christmas". It is both a Halloween and Christmas film, imho. Thank you for your dedication to your channel.

Wolf Hall is fantastic.

Queen Elizabeth II is also a descendant of Mary Boleyn through her mother Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

Very interesting video

Amazing video again Alice, and ps I can't wait for you to do Robert Dudley. Fun fact: The actor Joseph Fiennes who plays Robert Dudley in Elizabeth 1998 movie, also plays as William Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Love the same year, wow he plays in two movies related to the Elizabethan Tudor era. Lastly I can't wait for you to do Phantom of the Opera, and another fun fact: One of my favourite rockstar Paul Stanley aka The Starchild from the band KISS, was plays the Phantom within the Toronto production from May 25th to August 1st 1999, then he plays the Phantom again from September 30th to Halloween day (October 31st) the same year and I hope you can cover him along with the other actors who play the part of the Phantom of the Opera. He really capture that role and has a special connection within it too. Yes I'm an KISS army and yes Paul Stanley aka The Starchild is my favourite member of KISS.

My money is on Charity Wakefield’s Mary. She’s spunky and sensuous. Probably better educated than most ladies in waiting but not into academics. She’s the free spirited type, centuries ahead of her time. AHHH, Now that I think of it. Mary is the Prince Harry in the Tudor age. She serves as a useful foil for Anne. It’s probably already well established in her family that Anne is the golden child. Who knows why parents pick them. In every instance, the smear of Mary’s reputation is used to promote or coverup for Anne. What is Anne up to at the French court, aren’t there rumors? Who cares, if you want a good time, send a Paige for Mary and then smear her reputation to take the focus off Anne. Henry takes a fancy to Mary? Wrong girl. Anne is supposed to advance the family fortunes. Anne is preggers and can’t have sex? Let’s get Mary to be a surrogate. Mary finally has enough, gets therapy and meets a man who values her? I’m betting the family knew and approved of stafford. But let’s make a big stink about it while Anne is in a vulnerable position and not able to keep it together. Mary and William get disgusted and ride off to California, er, away from court. She lives out her life in happy obscurity in Rochford having finally found someone who she respects and loves. So, it all works out for her in the end. She probably felt sorry for her siblings but more relieved for herself. Her family screwed her over and karma happened. Oh well. Call her The Good Boleyn Girl.

Favourite Halloween movie - Halloween (1978) but also Trick ‘r Treat

I can safely say I liked Anne Boleyn before it was cool. 😎I stumbled across Anne of the Thousand Days on Bravo one night in 1999, and was hooked. After that, I devoured all the novels on Anne I could find--my favorites being Evelyn Anthony's Anne Boleyn, Mollie Hardwick's Blood Royal, and Norah Lofts' The Concubine. One thing I notice about so many of these (which, of course, continued with The Other Boleyn Girl and post-TOBG works) is that Mary's main function in nearly every novel about Anne was to be whatever Anne is NOT. If Anne's portrayed as scheming, devious, and overly ambitious, Mary is gentle, honest, and content with a simple life; if Anne's portrayed as cautious and prudent, Mary is reckless, overly emotional, or carelessly promiscuous. This even extends into their hair/eye coloring (brunette Anne, blonde Mary), even though, as you said, there's no real record of Mary's hair color.

Yay for you doing Phantom Of The Opera! Some future Halloween, I'd love to see you cover Dracula. Especially the questions of "why can't we have a latter-day adaptation/retelling where Dracula's attacks on Lucy and Mina are treated as the assaults they are and not as something either of them wanted or embraced?", "why do so many writers of sequels/adaptations/retellings treat poor old Jonathan Harker, a man who faced serious trauma, escaped Castle Dracula in a weakened state on his lonesome, showed no hesitation in going back to face Dracula despite knowing what Dracula was capable of, and swore that if they didn't defeat Dracula, he'd ask to be turned so he and Mina could still be together, as a wimp or a jerk?" and "why are so many adaptations bound and determined to give Mina true love with the man who, for all intents and purposes, r*ped her in canon?"

I'd love to see you cover Anne's father Thomas Boleyn, and the accuracy, or lack thereof, of the Pimp Daddy Boleyn characterization (which seems to show up at its worst in The Other Boleyn Girl, The Tudors, and Robin Maxwell's novel Mademoiselle Boleyn). That's become the default characterization for him...I kind of prefer deviations from that. In Norah Lofts' novel The Concubine, published in 1965 and back in print in the wake of The Other Boleyn Girl, Thomas is actually very peeved at the idea that the general public thinks that his social advancement came because of Mary's involvement with the king, when he's actually gotten where he is under his own steam.

me being dark haired and brown eyed vs my full blood sister being blonde and blue eyed...

Charity Wakefield was excellent in Wolf Hall. Definitely my favorite Mary Boleyn.

She was BEGGING hard in that letter

Alice of Sherwood: I’ve been visited by all three 🐱 in the span of this recording! Me: the rule of three but with 🐱!

Mary Boleyn is my ancestress as well, and I'm actually quite proud to be her descendant. I do agree that she's often typecast as being silly, stupid, naive, and easy, but I like to think she was more than that. She was smart enough to know when it was time to go when Henry no longer wanted her and didn't make a nuisance of herself (unlike Anne), and she chose to be with someone she loved and treated her well instead of just being with someone wealthy and influential at court. Ultimately, those things saved her life. Plus, I also like to think that if she could have lived to see everything that her vast descendants have accomplished, she'd be quite proud.

You could make videos about literally anything and I would watch it until the end, it's so good

excellent video ! I'd love to see you do a video on Juana of Castile(Koa's sister)someday !

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Great video! I've been looking forward to a proper Mary Boleyn video. The first book I read on her was 'The other Boleyn Girl'. Would you ever consider reviewing that book alone? There's a LOT to be discussed on that. From the line about bedding only thirteen-year-old virgins to that graphic miscarriage scene with the monstrous, deformed foetus. I don't like the book now, as an adult, but I couldn't stop reading it as a teenager and it acted as an introduction to the Tudors to a lot of people. Curious to see your take on just the book.