Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "'A King should show himself sometimes' - Wolf Hall: Episode 2 Preview - BBC Two" video.

  1. ' Well at this distance'.... Cromwell knows that Henry has set an easy distance for himself so that he can look good.
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  2.  @Rakkeyal  Me too. I've hardly recognise my old comments. It's as if they were written by someone else - someone more intelligent than me.
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  3.  @daredemontriple6  I visited Henry's ship 'The Mary Rose' and in that exhibition you get the chance to try out a longbow. It requires some strength to pull it but boys and men of this time were required to engage in regular practice with the longbow. Apparently it caused muscles on one side to become larger than the other.
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  4. Henry offering to join Cromwell in the local archery competition, anonymously, leaves Cromwell speechless, not knowing how to respond. Henry probably thinks it would be fun and an honour for Cromwell. Cromwell probably thinks the archers would end up lose their heads for speaking their minds with their usual freedom.
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  5.  @daredemontriple6  From recalling more info now, I believe you have it right.
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  6. I think Mark Rylance conveyed that by his acting and also that he couldn't allow his expression to be too revealing before Henry but Henry's not the most perceptive man.
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