S1.E4

Battlefield

Episode aired Dec 16, 2010
TV-MA
47m

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Ian McShane in Les piliers de la terre (2010)

William applies to have his father's title of Earl transferred to him, and discovers a mysterious knight is also a rival for the Earldom. King Stephen, frightened by Jack's appearance, order... Read allWilliam applies to have his father's title of Earl transferred to him, and discovers a mysterious knight is also a rival for the Earldom. King Stephen, frightened by Jack's appearance, orders an assassin to kill him. The battle between King Stephen and Maud sees each side's leade... Read allWilliam applies to have his father's title of Earl transferred to him, and discovers a mysterious knight is also a rival for the Earldom. King Stephen, frightened by Jack's appearance, orders an assassin to kill him. The battle between King Stephen and Maud sees each side's leader being taken hostage.

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1KytherMT

Failure to show story's brilliance

This episode fails to show Ken Follet's brilliance in writing "the Pillars of the Earth" for numerous reasons. The level of drama and corniness was absurd and even made me laugh out loud at times. The book's storyline captures and intrigues the audience on it's own without the addition of "made up" plots such as King Stephen hiring an assassin that appears to murder Jack as well as Bishop Waleran forcing Prior Phillip to confess while being tortured only to be left to a hanging. The only thing keeping me watching is how fun it is to point out the outlandishness of each scene and comical it really is. Any non-reader of the actual book would not think twice about picking it up after viewing this mini-series. So far episode #4 = "Worst episode ever."

9Littleman95

Conspiracies

The story keeps being full of plot twist and treason for personal purpose. Can't wait to see how it continues in the next episode!

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Goofs
Shiring Castle is shown as a structure from the Tudor/Elizabethan era, 400 years in the future.

Quotes
Percy Hamleigh: I fear you've cut too deep.
Regan Hamleigh: No, my sweet. Not deep enough.

Soundtracks
Jerusalem
Written by William Blake (uncredited) and Hubert Parry (uncredited)
Arranged by Michael McGlynn
Performed by Linda Király
WB Music Corp O/B/O ~Warner Music Ltd.