itp: The Borgias

[sharpasafawkes]

[IN CANADA, it's Historian and Borgia bonding time! -Or trainwreck-watching time, as the case may be]

At least the opening isn't rubbish...

[Yeah, Yeah]

Comments

[maleborgia]

Is there any way to tell how much longer this is? Or a way to change our angle of view? I feel like it might be more palatable from a distance.

[sharpasafawkes]

[mousing over it]

About an hour, and we can just tilt the laptop another way or get on the couch.

[maleborgia]

No, I mean, is there a way to make them further away? The view of the buildings is not bad. I just don't want to see the actors.

[sharpasafawkes]

[laughing, not too terribly at Cesare though]

Not really. Imagine trying to do that with a painting and you've got the idea.

[maleborgia]

*mutters something that sounds like it might be a complaint about your technology failing to do anything right, but settles back*

[sharpasafawkes]

I swear to god if he keeps calling his sister "my love" like that...

[maleborgia]

Then I'll have to put my foot through your laptop?

[sharpasafawkes]

I haven't backed everything up yet.

Yes Rodrigo, poking the wall adequately expresses your feelings to the good cardinal.

[maleborgia]

And you say that that man is actually a good actor? Did he receive a grievous head injury? Are the men in charge of this holding his family hostage? I can understand the difficulty in finding a man who actually looks or sounds like my father, but this is an insult.

[sharpasafawkes]

... Just how much have you had?

He's either good, or absolutely horrible. I'm still hoping it swings around to the former.

[maleborgia]

*this is a brief glare* I know how to drink.

I'll give him another act, or whatever this is called, to convince me.

[sharpasafawkes]

[smirking at the examination]

You were saying?

[maleborgia]

*arm crossing*

Be quiet.

[sharpasafawkes]

... Please tell me your brother isn't this insufferable in real life.

[maleborgia]

Hardly. He can be difficult, but he's not... whatever this is.

[sharpasafawkes]

Incompetent?

[maleborgia]

Incompetent, infuriating...

I have a different question for you. Are there any decent shows about my family we could be watching instead?

[sharpasafawkes]

Well there are loads of other history shows, but as for the Borgia family...

-Oh for the love of god you petulant child, can't you go for a moment without whinging?

Him, not you.

[maleborgia]

Who scripted this? It's completely absurd. *...refilling his glass*

[sharpasafawkes]

I don't know, did they check any references at all?

Damn it all, he was acting well a moment ago. Stop crying, you're a bleeding pope now.

[maleborgia]

*this small scrap of paper on the table? he's crumpling it into a ball and flicking it at the screen. not sure if it will hit Rodrigo or his own imitator in the face*

[sharpasafawkes]

That might be the most glowing critique of this show yet. I know the cardinals were cutthroat, but really, this much bickering?

[maleborgia]

It's almost realistic. Assuming that you don't take it to mean that they never do anything else.

[sharpasafawkes]

I'd like to have some small sliver of hope for the papacy, but then I'm a realist.

[maleborgia]

It's politics. Even the disciples quarreled.