Talk:The White Queen (TV series)

Summaries

The summaries are copypaste. There was a big argument over at Merlin TV series, series 4 which were mostly copypaste.REVUpminster (talk) 09:12, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

As well as far too large! I will see what I can do later this week. However if anyone else wants to have a stab before then go for it. I will leave them there for the meantime - so there is a nice base on where to start. I have removed future episode summaries in line with Wikipedia:CRYSTAL. -- MisterShiney ✉ 17:21, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

I've removed the summaries for the first two episodes as well. They were also copied. Citing a reference doesn't excuse it. Ryan8374 (talk) 18:56, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Perhaps you could start individual articles if it's really that important. Also, there are individual descriptions of each character if needed. -- Lady Meg (talk) 04:20, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Removal of content

An editor seems to feel that all positive material on this drama series should be removed completely. At least this editor is no longer blatantly falsifying sources, as in the case of the review whih praised the show for not indulging in a "feminist fantasy" of female power contrary to the realities of medieval life, which was misrepresented as criticism for somehow denigrating women by showing them as powerless. Instead the tactic now seems to be to simply cut out as much as possible, removing information that is useful for the reader, just in order to fulfil some strange personal vendetta against... a TV show. Can some explanation or justification be made of these edits? Paul B (talk) 20:50, 24 July 2013 (UTC)

Episode Title Data from BBC Progammes web site

Titles for past episodes are available on the BBC website
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018sxqp/episodes/guide

They appear as captions to the "Gallery" on the page for each individual episode.

Titles are currently available for episodes 1-7

• Episode 1/10 "In Love with the King"
• Episode 2/10 "The Price of Power"
• Episode 3/10 "The Storm"
• Episode 4/10 "The Bad Queen"
• Episode 5/10 "The War at First Hand"
• Episode 6/10 "Love and Marriage"
• Episode 7/10 "Poison and Malmsey Wine"

Hicksw, grammarian
(I try to correct minor spelling and grammar problems, with little success.)
Last Post — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hicksw (talk • contribs) 10:35, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Fine, but I have removed "pilot" from episode one, since it clearly is not a pilot episode in the usual meaning of that term. Paul B (talk) 10:57, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

The complete list (seen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018sxqp/galleries ) is

• Episode One: In Love with the King
• Episode Two: The Price of Power
• Episode Three: The Storm
• Episode Four: The Bad Queen
• Episode Five: War at First Hand
• Episode Six: Love and Marriage
• Episode Seven: Poison and Malmsey Wine
• Episode Eight: The King is Dead
• Episode Nine: The Princes in the Tower
• Episode Ten: The Final Battle

Some of these were listed differently in the article, 6 & 8 were "Love and Death" and "Long Live the King" respectively. Maybe they were from Starz's version. Anyway, BBC was the premiere so should be definitive. 202.81.243.196 (talk) 15:07, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke

Rupert Young who plays William Herbert is in fact William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke who was created Earl of Pembroke in favour of Jasper Tudor and given control of Pembroke Castle and custody of the young Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond by King Edward IV. He was later executed by the Lancastrians by order of Lord Warwick "the Kingmaker" not his son William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, I have tried to charge this but someone always undoes it. LordWiltshire1529 (talk) 02:21, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

The series is so overflowing with obscure characters and barely audible dialogue that it might as well have been scripted in middle English. Leave well alone, it's complex enough for a British audience, let alone an American one.1812ahill (talk) 01:34, 24 August 2013 (UTC)