"Have we missed something which is rather central to this character? He is a soldier. Soldiers do a job which is not pleasant. Their King/Queen/President/Prime minister calls them to do something for the security of their country ....they do it. They cannot refuse. If soldiers decided to pick and choose which conflicts they want to get involved in, it would really defeat their purpose. Besides to most of them, their loyalty to their country (and the Leader of that Country) is foremost ."

"If knowing what is right and wrong means she is hormonal then I guess being hormonal is a bad thing. The original question was what has he done wrong to turn Catherine off and I have answered the question extensively. I assume her disdain towards him will continue to grow as she continues ot see his lack of character and willingness to kill. "

"So you didnt notice that Catherine stayed with her husband after his murdering children during the pilgrimage of grace? She left him after she recognized what a sick bastard he was when he was rejoicing with the Seymours the death of Cromwell, that was the last straw for her and that is why she is not in season 4. "

"Charles' fall from the nice careless guy dates all the way back to the first season when he was pretty happy to get rid of Wolsey. He was overjoyed about getting rid of Cromwell and they celebrated his demise. I think that's when Catherine realized he wasn't the man she married. She was going to cope with the pilgrimage ordeal, but Brandon's plotting against Cromwell (and others before and after him) was the last straw."

"I think Brandon changed a lot looking at his personality and ambitions from season 1 to season 3-4. In the first season he, like Henry, was young and all about chasing tail and politics wasn't really his thing. Towards the end of the first season and so forth, he finds himself feeling empathy for (Henry's) Catherine and starts to realize that some things are wrong in the court. I didn't find him particularly sympathetic in the first season, but later on I feel he has stepped up as a character. While he's not by far my favorite character, I think there has been a positive change in him through out the series.

I did, however, find it odd that at first he felt terribly guilty over the pilgrimage, but then turned around and said he has a clear conscience in regard to his actions.
Well, the hallucinations proved his words wrong but I wonder if his declaration stems from the contemporary expectation that the man is always right, even though he's wrong.

Anyway: he has changed. "