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s02e10 — Destiny and Fortune

The Tudors — s02e10 — Destiny and Fortune

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Duration: 53 min.
Released: 01.06.200802.06.2008 05:00
Watched by: 19 49147.17%
2 season
s02e10
s02e06 - The Definition of Love
s02e07 - Matters of State
s02e08 - Lady in Waiting
s02e09 - The Act of Treason
s02e10 - Destiny and Fortune
s03e01 - Civil Unrest
s03e02 - The Northern Uprising
s03e03 - Dissension and Punishment
s03e04 - The Death of a Queen

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vishnyamalinka
vishnyamalinka
17 May 2015, 22:55 #
Creepy... My neck ached already...
Sasha_Nikonov
Sasha_Nikonov
14 Jan 2016, 06:02 #
The king gives money for the maintenance of his daughter, and she in turn pays the bills for the maintenance of her mother in Taura. Mde.
I thought that at least they would show how Anne Boleyn's head would fly off her shoulders, but alas.
And Henry is bloodthirsty - he took and ate the poor swan.
IzaGorg
IzaGorg
04 Jan 2017, 04:23 #
How vile this Boleyn is, he worries only for his own skin, and does not care about children ...
And a very symbolic moment with a swan, the whole essence of Henry is revealed in it.
DarkBird666
DarkBird666
10 Jan 2017, 20:43 #
That's all. The king devours everything beautiful that comes across in his life.
Ctixia
Ctixia
28 Jan 2017, 08:55 #
The last scene is particularly nasty.
Blackly
Blackly
20 Jun 2017, 15:02 #
Yeah... so great and so disgusting) I like absolutely ALL the actors, even Boleyn played so well, as he hardly even looked at his beloved daughter, thinking only how to get out faster and save his own skin.
Poor swan : ((At first I didn't even understand why they were shown so often, but Henry kept looking and looking... and how quickly he switched to other women as soon as Anna became his "legitimate" wife. It's amazing, guys!
080585
080585
12 Jan 2018, 03:44 #
Anna's execution is the scariest thing I've seen in a while. There are a lot of emotions and tears. Anna was not the purest character in this story, but it was painful to watch the result of the saying "what I fought for, I ran into."
And the king is an egoist, a tyrant and a womanizer — his whole brain is focused on the groin level.
KaterinaVoyler
KaterinaVoyler
14 Mar 2019, 02:23 #
A very emotional series. I didn't really like Anna, but I felt sorry for her because of this delay with the executioner - she had already prepared psychologically, and there was a delay. Involuntarily, hope creeps into her thoughts that this is a sign of fate, that she will be pardoned. And how painful it is to realize that this is self-deception.
I liked the contrasts - someone is preparing for execution, and someone for a wedding, someone is crying, and someone is happy. Indeed, there is a time to scatter stones and a time to collect them. No one can escape from fate. Anna saw how Henry easily disowned his eldest daughter, and it would be foolish to hope that he would not be able to do the same with Elizabeth. Jane should have thought about that, too, but ambition is everything. Especially if it's the ambitions of the men of your family.
I remember the moment when all those who came to the execution kneel in front of the condemned. Even Brandon, her old enemy.
The last scene is symbolic for me. It seems to me that this pair of swans symbolized for Henry all that was beautiful in his relationship with Anna, and maybe love itself. And so he devours (I don't like this word, but there's no other way to say it) one of them. That's it, the swan is left alone. And Henry, too.
illseethese
illseethese
26 Mar 2021, 08:07 #
@KaterinaVoyler: Anna saw how Henry easily disowned his eldest daughter, and it would be foolish to hope that he would not be able to do the same with Elizabeth.

and it's the same with Catherine. He easily disowned her. If Anna had been smart, she would have realized that he could leave her as well, but this is the king, his grace blinds.
LL345
LL345
11 Aug 2020, 19:47 #
Historical accuracy is lame, a lot of things have been invented, but the cast is great and you still enjoy watching episode after episode.
marinatennant
marinatennant
PRO
26 Oct 2020, 05:02 #
I worry about the surviving swan more than I do about Anna's death.
Trance
Trance
05 May 2021, 06:56 #
For me, the key to understanding Henry was the scene where he is angry because of the delay in the execution and it does not matter to him that he had previously promised to wait for the executioner. He is like a stupid child who wants to get a new toy as soon as possible and the word means nothing to him.
Simon__di
Simon__di
05 Jan 2022, 23:29 #
Anne Boleyn is the most beloved Queen.
id18379359
id18379359
17 Jan 2022, 18:43 #
I wonder why the writers decided not to burn Anna
Cinnabon
Cinnabon
22 Mar 2022, 13:58 #
@id18379359: Because historically she was beheaded
id18379359
id18379359
22 Mar 2022, 18:21 #
@Cinnabon: I read that she was burned.
Cinnabon
Cinnabon
23 Mar 2022, 14:27 #
@id18379359: Anna was found guilty and sentenced to death, replacing, by order of Henry, burning with beheading.
id18379359
id18379359
24 Mar 2022, 09:45 #
@Cinnabon: Yes, you're right, I read it
Nataly_v97
Nataly_v97
23 Apr 2022, 20:06 #
Even goosebumps on the skin...
AlexeyVolchkov
AlexeyVolchkov
14 May 2022, 13:00 #
Yes, emotionally…
Наталинка
Наталинка
14 Sep 2022, 15:07 #
What an idiot he is!
_October_
_October_
19 Sep 2023, 12:04 #
Fathers and brothers behave worse than pimps, just to put their daughter under the king.
romapr70
romapr70
27 Dec 2023, 19:30 #
Does anyone know what the melody is at the end?
I can't find it…
romapr70
romapr70
09 Nov 2024, 15:41 #
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velbovets_denis
velbovets_denis
19 Jan 16:45 #
How they symbolically compared: the 2 swans on the lake are Henry and Anna, and the final scene after Anna's death is one of the dead swans on the King's table, leaving one swan on the lake, symbolizing the King himself, "the one and only."
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