Da Vinci's Demons on Fox
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http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2013/02/fox-sets-uk-premiere-date-for-da-vincis-demons/
Looks interesting enough but I'd be surprised if it last's more than one season
Looks interesting enough but I'd be surprised if it last's more than one season
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The trailers look good. To be honest this is on Starz in the US and they do tend to look more long term than the traditional mainstream channels - so has a good chance of lasting.
Slightly surprised in that respect Fox UK have it, but whatever.
The trailers look like an amalgam of Game of Thrones meets The Borgias meets Warehouse 13.
We'll see what comes I guess. The CGi of Florence looks respectable.
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Fox UK - Your teaser campaign is way too cryptic, and most people will be going WTF ?
....I initially thought is said www.historyisalie.com - LOL
I'm still going to watch it
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/04/17/da-vincis-demons-renewed-for-season-2-by-starz/178423/
Well it seems popular so far.
I was wrong then as it's just been renewed for a second season
The visuals are great, though. And Lucrezia is quite a stunner.
Oh, and the dialogue is awful. Not sure what they're trying to achieve with a historical setting and very contemporary dialogue. Very jarring.
But I'm not sure I can watch Downton Abbey, the same way again.:eek:
Great CGI too.....but who/what is the Turk.
Think I've already figured out Lucrezia's motivation for playing spy too. It's pretty obvious if I'm right.
The Turk - Al Rahim or basically DaVinci's Ras Al Ghul I'm willing to bet.
Alexander Siddig aka Dr Bashir from Star Trek: DS9
He's got quite a cult background, TV wise.
So does his twin James Callis
Watched the repeat of episode 1 last night on FOX, will be watching episode 2 tomorrow at some point.
His ginger model, with the unfortunately tiny breasts, made Lucrezia look like a minger.
Was very disappointed, as having read a Biography of Da Vinci, is p155e5 all over accepted fact. The whole scene with the small and the larger mechanical birds was ridiculous, and the dream scene with the birds has absolutely nothing to do with Vitruvian Man, that flashed past.
My expectation was for something a bit Warehouse 13-ey, the history excerpts, but it it more Borgias's Lite, with excessive and IMHO unrepresentative homosexuality. The Pope in a huge bath with a young boy, who then got casually whacked by one of his henchmen, because he over-heard something said in front of his face - really ............:mad:
That's the whole point of the show
When The Turk was talking to Leonardo he said something like, and I'm paraphrasing here "history is always mucked about with and in the future your history will be too"
Yes, but as with many shows, there is credible re-imagining, and there is being preposterous.
Warehouse 13 works well in context, with their delving back into history and working up some lore around artifacts and people like HG.
DVD seemed pretty scattergun, with stuff that was incredulous like the implausible large mechanical birds, yet a little earlier in the show they had only just test flown a kite/glider made of wood and fabric.
Vitruvian Man has nothing to do with a dream about birds.
DaVinci's historical trail about his relationships and lack of wife/children is pretty empty, with there being some wishful thinking claim he had homosexual tendencies, but this show portrayed him as a 'Jack the Lad', wannabee arm's supplier, and randy idiot, shagging his new benefactors wife.
I hope it improves, as it was 'too busy' for my liking too.
A shame..... as the known history is Da Vinci has so much promise covering science, engineering and art, and his known history traverses from Florence, Rome, Turin, Paris etc.... with many significant benefactors from the Medici's, through a King of France with significant quantities of his work ultimately ending up in the Royal Collection in Windsor Castle.
http://www.thebacklot.com/tag/davincis_demons/
I do still think it is worth watching.