A disgruntled horse & Robin of Sherwood
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bunnI just ran a reference search for a man riding bareback on a horse, and got this naked man. The naked man is not particularly the funny part. That is the horse's expression. That is what made me cackle.
In unrelated news, I had forgotten the ending of Robin of Sherwood, and my initial reaction on rewatch is that it is just awful.Marion decides life as an outlaw is all too stressful and goes into a nunnery after finding Robin dead, only he isn't really dead and turns up within hours for a dramatic parting scene, in which she reiterates that the whole Dead Robin thing is just too much.
On reflection though, I'm coming around to it. I was never quite comfortable with Marion transferring her affections so automatically from Robin I to Robin II (I'm fine with the idea of Two Robins: I like the idea of reflecting both origin-stories) . Maybe Marion never really fell for Robin II, perhaps she just found herself being pushed by the story into a relationship with him? In which case, perhaps it does work that she should decide to look for something else to do elsewhere, and I suppose 'nun' is really the only other career available to a medieval gentlewoman that isn't 'wife'.
In unrelated news, I had forgotten the ending of Robin of Sherwood, and my initial reaction on rewatch is that it is just awful.
On reflection though, I'm coming around to it. I was never quite comfortable with Marion transferring her affections so automatically from Robin I to Robin II (I'm fine with the idea of Two Robins: I like the idea of reflecting both origin-stories) . Maybe Marion never really fell for Robin II, perhaps she just found herself being pushed by the story into a relationship with him? In which case, perhaps it does work that she should decide to look for something else to do elsewhere, and I suppose 'nun' is really the only other career available to a medieval gentlewoman that isn't 'wife'.
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Date: 2016-09-16 07:36 am (UTC)The horse's expression says it all.
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Date: 2016-09-16 08:31 am (UTC)These arty photos with animals in often become hilarious or disturbing when you look at the animal's expression not the human's. I assume the natural thing for the human viewer to do is to look at the human face so most people don't notice the eye-rolling etc...
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Date: 2016-09-16 08:15 am (UTC)Horses can't help looking down their nose at everything, they have an awful lot of nose!
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Date: 2016-09-16 08:35 am (UTC)If it was making the curious/interested face in Puddleshark's icon above, the photo would be quite different. But Nudy Gentleman's horse is SO UNIMPRESSED. :-D
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Date: 2016-09-16 08:37 am (UTC)Your icon is good too. *Two* long noses!
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Date: 2016-09-16 09:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-09-16 09:27 pm (UTC)It's reasonable for Robert-Robin to fall for Marion, even if the story wasn't pushing him that way - but she is in a much more complicated situation. I am coming round more and more to the thinking that I am OK with Marion's choice: it's less upsetting than it seemed at first.
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Date: 2016-09-16 09:21 pm (UTC)It wasn't that I hated it, or was angry they'd killed him, I thought it was a very good handling of Doylist necessity, I just wanted him to have a happy ending as well.
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Date: 2016-09-16 09:37 pm (UTC)It was a good end for him though: suitably epic, but so so sad.
It's difficult to imagine a suitably happy ending in the fourteenth century, I think. Sherwood is just too small to disappear into in the forest singing sorrowless...
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Date: 2016-09-16 09:58 pm (UTC)I seem to remember my (pre-teen) solution was for Robin I to have been the son of a knight all along, and to come back and take over as Sheriff - but still, 14th century, it wasn't really the most realistic of solutions.
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Date: 2016-09-17 09:00 am (UTC)no subject
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