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What are the differences between BBC and Starz version?

posted 8 years ago by aylinkara
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I watched the BBC version. Can someone tell me the differences? Much appreciated.

[–] eyeguy72 8 years ago

I have not seen the British versions but apparently many of the sex scenes were cut. The American airings contained these scenes.

[–] aylinkara 8 years ago

Thanks a lot.

[–] KatharineFanatic 8 years ago

Way, way, WAY more sex/nudity on the Starz version.

There's entirely different shots, angles, and scenes -- where in the BBC version someone will be in bed talking and wearing a nightdress; in the Starz version, they're topless. I only noticed one additional (awkward) sex scene, but Anne Neville's rape is significantly longer (and her mother in law stays to watch the entire thing).

[–] aylinkara 8 years ago

Thanks 😃

[–] Rikki1999 8 years ago

I'm on episode 8 of the Starz version (streaming through Amazon Prime). Some of the earlier episodes were like soft-core porn.

[–] lrdcharlton 8 years ago

I only noticed one additional (awkward) sex scene, but Anne Neville's rape is significantly longer (and her mother in law stays to watch the entire thing).

That was the most disturbing scene in the series. Why in the world would she stay and watch. I loved the character, but that was very weird and to add insult to injury it was borderline rape she was watching. Why did she need the bloody sheets if she was just going to watch.

[–] KatharineFanatic 8 years ago

I don't know.

I think the series' implication was that she had some incestuous obsession with her son. It was creepy and weird. :P

[–] kincaid-5 8 years ago

Bloody sheets were the traditional way of verifying that the bride had been a virgin. They would sometimes be hung up in public the day after the wedding to show the world.

As for why she would want to watch, that's obvious. She hated Warwick and got a charge out of forcing him to give up his daughter and then seeing her abused.

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[–] lrdcharlton 8 years ago

I do not believe the show was suggesting she was THAT cruel. As we got to know her she seemed to be not as vicious as the York's made her to be. If she looked at Anne in such a manner then why was she so concerned about her well being during the battle where she insisted Anne flee with he?

[–] unknown_soul278 8 years ago

She was concerned because of the possibility of Anne being pregnant. Her son was her only remaining claim to the throne, and if he dies but has a son she will still have something. With him and his father both being dead and no remaining heir she would never return to power. She would have been welcomed by a Tudor King and his mother, but she would not have the power she wanted and would not have been able to accept that.

[–] unknown_soul278 8 years ago

Honey that was rape, nothing borderline about it. The laws were different then but the mechanics were the same.

Just in terms of the series, the short time the STARZ version shows his mother's apparent pleasure in it blew away my wondering if the stories of her brutality were exaggerated.