Meme and Robin Hood
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redfiona99Meme first: Comment here and ask me ANYTHING about any fandom I'm involved in/have been involved in, or fandom in general. Controversial or innocent, silly or serious, ask and you'll get my honest opinion on the subject [to the best of my knowledge/ability].
Robin Hood next - I am about to say something I never expected to say. Robin Hood was good last week. In fact it was more than good, there was tension and suspense! Okay the week before's also managed that and had the best guest ever (seriously, if we can't have Friar Tuck, could we have the reprise of the fool). It's actually getting to be a good programme.
There was sense, because when they wished to convey huge army, they just used different shots of real people on horses rather than bad CGI. I mean, Nottingham itself was still bad CGI, but we've come to expect that.
And I think they've figured out how to write Robin, because last season the scene at the end with Little John would have been painful because Robin would have been a wanker about it. Also I wish to hug Little John.
It's also quite interesting what they're doing with Guy of Guisborne. Because they've not made him nice, he's not a good guy, not even in the Marvel anti-hero sense. He is still a dyed in the wool bad guy. But he loves Marian so much. I do always wonder if she knows quite how much (because, for all he is occasionally stalker creepy, I refuse to believe I was the only one who cheered when he turned back). They've also been really careful with Marian's character because she doesn't seem like an arse for refusing him.
And, while I'm aware that this really doesn't need saying, Sam Troughton brought it with a vengence. Because when Robin tells him, he's so utterly heartbroken and he just glowed with misery because he's happy for Robin. Well done sir, my heart is making with the aching on your behalf.
Robin Hood next - I am about to say something I never expected to say. Robin Hood was good last week. In fact it was more than good, there was tension and suspense! Okay the week before's also managed that and had the best guest ever (seriously, if we can't have Friar Tuck, could we have the reprise of the fool). It's actually getting to be a good programme.
There was sense, because when they wished to convey huge army, they just used different shots of real people on horses rather than bad CGI. I mean, Nottingham itself was still bad CGI, but we've come to expect that.
And I think they've figured out how to write Robin, because last season the scene at the end with Little John would have been painful because Robin would have been a wanker about it. Also I wish to hug Little John.
It's also quite interesting what they're doing with Guy of Guisborne. Because they've not made him nice, he's not a good guy, not even in the Marvel anti-hero sense. He is still a dyed in the wool bad guy. But he loves Marian so much. I do always wonder if she knows quite how much (because, for all he is occasionally stalker creepy, I refuse to believe I was the only one who cheered when he turned back). They've also been really careful with Marian's character because she doesn't seem like an arse for refusing him.
And, while I'm aware that this really doesn't need saying, Sam Troughton brought it with a vengence. Because when Robin tells him, he's so utterly heartbroken and he just glowed with misery because he's happy for Robin. Well done sir, my heart is making with the aching on your behalf.
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Date: 2007-12-16 04:33 pm (UTC)Because I don't like Paul London. I know I'm supposed to because he's everything I like in wrestling, he's small and flippy and competant, and does really nifty moves.
But he just lacks something, and I can't explain what it is, except in-ring charisma. Watching his matches is like a black hole of cool flippiness. It makes me understand what other people mean by spot-monkey. Which annoys me because back in the day when I used to have to defend AJ Styles from said accusations London would be held up as someone who wasn't, and it's like what the hell has everyone else been watching.
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For part 2 I was tempted to go with Jamie Noble, except I know you like him and the rest of the world is starting to get that he's a pocket rocket of amazingness. (See also Lance Cade who is my second option).
So I'll go with Chris Harris, if only because someone was having a go at him yet again. As to explain the adoration - he's not anything I normally like, he's not an X-division type, and while he was in my favourite tag team ever (AMW) there's nothing remarkable when you look at him.
But he's got this fantastically old skool thing going for him, when he's a face you cheer, not because he's clever or brilliant but because he's the good guy in this equation.
And when he's a heel, you boo and hiss, because he's not one of these cool heels where he's cleverer than his opponent and you're tempted to cheer for him which is what I find to be a problem with a lot of heels. No, he's just a whining pain in the butt who needs to get squished.
Also, while I used to mock his promoing, I think he's got the hang of it, because he'll never be the Rock or someone like that but he's so real in them.
Really, the greatest compliment I can pay him is that while I watch his matches I believe in what's happening in front of me.