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thisbluespiritI am very tired from the hospital visit (plus parents) yesterday, as it was in the afternoon. Afternoons are resting time, not doing excessively tiring things time. So I will catch up sometime soon when I am able. In the meantime, I am getting by through rewatching The Shadow of the Tower again. This inevitably led to me having a go a giffing the cute but very probably anachronistic monkey, so I am sharing that with you now, because the internet can obviously never have enough cute animals:
And in things I shouldn't have giffed but it was in the same episode and seriously, the things old-time BBC wouldn't bother to do retakes on* (especially when they've done a scene involving animals earlier no doubt). James Maxwell should be waaaay more cautious about how he gets out of bed on national telly when wearing 15th C nightshirts, that's all I can say and now I've disturbed myself:
ETA: Also explain to me the really good historical reason that John Cabot ends up with the Earl of Lincoln's outfit, because he does. (It's not that The Shadow of the Tower was cheap, it's just that it spent all its budget on dogs, monkeys, horses, a million candles, and CSO for scenery, because it was a TV show with no sense of self-prservation whatsoever and a good sense of the proper priorities in life.)
* The best one still being that bit in the BBC 1978 Julius Caesar where the guy dies on top of David Collings the wrong way round and Richard Pasco has to stand there and give a speech about how he's facing the other way around when clearly he isn't.
And in things I shouldn't have giffed but it was in the same episode and seriously, the things old-time BBC wouldn't bother to do retakes on* (especially when they've done a scene involving animals earlier no doubt). James Maxwell should be waaaay more cautious about how he gets out of bed on national telly when wearing 15th C nightshirts, that's all I can say and now I've disturbed myself:
ETA: Also explain to me the really good historical reason that John Cabot ends up with the Earl of Lincoln's outfit, because he does. (It's not that The Shadow of the Tower was cheap, it's just that it spent all its budget on dogs, monkeys, horses, a million candles, and CSO for scenery, because it was a TV show with no sense of self-prservation whatsoever and a good sense of the proper priorities in life.)
* The best one still being that bit in the BBC 1978 Julius Caesar where the guy dies on top of David Collings the wrong way round and Richard Pasco has to stand there and give a speech about how he's facing the other way around when clearly he isn't.
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Date: 12 Oct 2016 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 12 Oct 2016 10:35 pm (UTC)Hope you feel less-tired soon!
/despatches from the edge of the CFS cliff
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Date: 13 Oct 2016 07:42 am (UTC)And, come on, I think I've at least found a ledge on this cliff, come and join me.
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Date: 12 Oct 2016 10:39 pm (UTC)Hope you got some good rest, lovie...sounds like it has been tiring! *Fusses*
*HUGS*
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Date: 13 Oct 2016 07:27 am (UTC)Exotic menageries were very much a thing across mediaeval Europe, and monkeys were particularly popular, probably because they're clearly adorable, and little ones can be fairly easily trained. Mediaeval writings speak of "apes" fairly frequently, entertained by their similarities to humans. Mediaeval art depicts them a lot too (although mediaeval art being what it is, they look more like hairy children with tails). A monkey in the court of Henry VII certainly isn't beyond the bounds of possibility. Whether he actually had one is a different question! (But then I doubt that he was a very tall, russet-haired American, either, so... ;) ).
If I could send you more energy, I would. Best wishes.
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Date: 13 Oct 2016 07:35 am (UTC)And, yes, it's not that any monkey would be anachronistic, anything but - it's just that according to my flist, that is a South American monkey in England in 1487! (Liadt wrote me a little crack fic to explain that it was given to Henry by his time travelling Tudor spies, which is probably as sensible as anything else in SotT.
<3
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Date: 13 Oct 2016 07:38 am (UTC)Well... monkeys most likely reached the Americas by rafting across the ocean (on fallen trees or whatever), so maybe this one did the same thing! Time-travelling Tudor spies is better though. :)
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Date: 13 Oct 2016 08:17 am (UTC)And, lol, yes, maybe it was just a very determined monkey? It had heard tell of a faraway land where a really cute monkey could make a fortune performing for kings and queens and it was going to get there somehow!
Other Monkeys: Stay home, stop this madness!
Cute Determined Monkey: I HAVE A DREAM. *builds raft*
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Date: 13 Oct 2016 08:35 pm (UTC)If Disney want to pay me for the movie rights, I am more than happy to sell them, where can I tell them this?
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Date: 13 Oct 2016 02:27 pm (UTC)Nobody forced you to gif pants;p Lol to the dog looking the other way. I think Henry VII is trying to distract us from that he too shoves kids in the tower.
They were big on recycling in the middle ages. In the 1950's technicolour (my eyes) Robin Hood and Son of Robin Hood etc films there's a lot of clothes swapping between the films. they knew how to make things last then.
I hope to watch 'The Devil's Crown', if I don't have to do too much Yule revision. It makes SotT look like it's got a enormo budget.
I hope creaky old TV is helping you recover:)
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Date: 13 Oct 2016 03:56 pm (UTC)Everybody forced me to gif pants by nobody else ever noticing or mentioning it until I had to. One more rewatch and I couldn't stand it any more! You're right, the dog is totally disapproving of all this: stop flashing, henry, honestly, argh, NOT WATCHING.
I can't believe anything could make SotT's budget look enormous! Slightly bigger, compared to children's shows, maybe, but... clearly I need to see The Devil's Crown! How can I resist history with a complete lack of budget??
Creaky old TV helps enormously. Having a cold at the same time, less so, but at least it doesn't seem to be too bad. <3
ETA: And, yes, I mean, historically, there would have been a huge second hand clothing trade, but it is kind of hard to see how the Earl of Lincoln's outfit wound up with John Cabot, of all people, but there you go. I assume Derek Smith and James Laurenson are more alike proportionally than one would have imagined!!
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Date: 14 Oct 2016 01:41 pm (UTC)The first two eps of 'The Devil's Crown' looks 'King John-ish' but with less cash. The iffy youtube quality doesn't help either compared to 'SotT's shiny shiny DVD freshness. And there's bonus Patrick Troughton at some point too.
It was a popular outfit at Tudor M&S? We can solve this mystery!
I hope the cold doesn't get any worse:\ *sends honey & lemon down the internet*
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Date: 15 Oct 2016 12:27 pm (UTC)He has time-travelling spies who bring him monkeys called Beyonce and who are under orders to bring him M&S underpants too. Never mind Richard, elastic's where it's at.
Thank you! Unfortunately, now my internet is running slow because it has been clogged up with an unidentified substance that smells suspiciously citrusey...
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Date: 15 Oct 2016 03:05 pm (UTC)That's true too: all that filing of vertebraes and now some experts are saying the skeleton found under the car park can't be Richard (dodgy DNA results), might as well get the spies to do something useful in the C21th while they're there.
Lol, I could send you a flu jab instead? *ouch!*
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Date: 13 Oct 2016 04:16 pm (UTC)Get some rest indeed. Take care ♥
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Date: 15 Oct 2016 09:23 am (UTC)And there was no money left for 15th C undies for James Maxwell! Good grief! :oD
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Date: 15 Oct 2016 12:25 pm (UTC)(Still, better anachronistic underwear than none, because I'm fairly sure he shouldn't have been wearing any in bed, historically speaking. And I'm not sure you could rely on Prudence Fitzgerald (the director all in favour of monkeys, CSO, studio backdrops and men in white shirts) to have gone for a retake even in that case...)