Comments on: Rob Emo Watch (Return!) https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/04/rob-emo-watch-return Lollards in the high church of low culture Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:42:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/04/rob-emo-watch-return/comment-page-1#comment-607671 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:42:07 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=13969#comment-607671 what we really need is a historical series about the simons de montfort, father and son: crusader dad exterminated albigensians and had his head knocked off by a trebucket missile in southern france; baronial rebel son — present as a little boy when dad died, married to king john’s daughter- raised europe’s first elected parliament against king john’s son, henry iii, and died at the battle of evesham

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2009/04/rob-emo-watch-return/comment-page-1#comment-607669 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:24:45 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=13969#comment-607669 (as before i end up deflated w/robin: there’s SO much comic-book potential for interesting stuff that they just blat past and forget — it’s not that they’re not “attempting stuff”, and i don’t really mind anachronism* if it had some energy, it’s just so muddled and timid… if they could blast back through the residue of 19th-century romanticised hood and start over (with all the same characters if you like)

*little john: “translating the bible? that’s heresy!”
tuck: “not heresy, john! progress!!”

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