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A disgruntled horse & Robin of Sherwood
Sep. 15th, 2016 10:29 pmI 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'.
