Comments on: RobEmoWatch 3: bodycountdown diddlydee dum https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch Lollards in the high church of low culture Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:16:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Elisha Sessions https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-45070 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:25:40 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-45070 i’m midway thru the 2nd ep and sukrat i must take a TINY niggle with your contention about keith allen’s diction – his diction is alright; the problem is in the helpfully amorphous category of his “line readings.” specifically, they’re awfulandmorespecifically, he rushes…. over the ends of his lines, only to pause for no effect just moments later. in TV you don’t get to rehearse much, so we are most likely seeing him push and test how much scenery he can fit in his mouth at once. i also sense a bit of “i’ll be damned if i sound old-fashioned.” it is getting the better of him. (but as you note, robin does seem to love it.)

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By: Alan https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-45004 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:32:15 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-45004 This was the first one i liked. Written by the guy who did the DrWho “Father’s Day” ep. I think each story gets to deploy a little of the WoT parallels, and this time it seemed to be 9/11 “the govt were behind it!” conspiracies. arf. i didn’t get it was pieface at all – i thought it was Joe, so well done there.

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By: Andrew Farrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-44986 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:28:38 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-44986 Bah Krool was to be struck out – I didn’t read the note directly above this text box closely enough.

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By: Andrew Farrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-44983 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:13:32 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-44983 Yeahno I was thinking that, but for some reason the quick cutaway from the first severing gave me some wiggle room but the bored ‘scissors’ gesture for the n-th one took it away.

I am warming to your theme, though, and really liked the helpful explanatory speech about how sometimes people can go wrong out there on Krool in the Holy Land, which might be on-message as regard what happens when Good King John returns. Or possibly the start of the message, Nottingham is presumably always the microcosm for what will happen when Father returns.

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By: Tom https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-44959 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:42:51 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-44959 The tongue-severing was the deal-breaker for my squeamish spouse!

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-44956 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:31:37 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-44956 yes i know but they WERE only implied — i think this is an important distinction (at least in the fairly arcane argument i am making): you could still sort of think of the SoN as a panto-cuddlily “evil” man who TALKED big bad stuff but didn’t ever quite do it

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By: Andrew Farrell https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-44950 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:02:47 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-44950 Er, there was clear (-ly implied) actual tongue-choppings in the second episode, though!

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By: Elisha Sessions https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-44927 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:01:41 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-44927 yay!!

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By: DavidM https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-44846 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:38:22 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-44846 Robin and Marion are both incredibly unattractive and, weirdly, both have huge, lumpy chin under-bites. Poor, scrawny Robin’s face is actually concave.

Other than that, this programme is really boring.

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By: byebyepride https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-44826 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:32:56 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-44826 Although the only version of the RH tales I really know is Ivanhoe, and Scott is obsessed with this sort of question. (Why I like his books so much!)

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By: byebyepride https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-44825 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:31:10 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-44825 Does ‘outlaw’ need to recomplicated? I like the term because it does specify a relationship to law, plus it is vaguely spatial or territorial (I did like the shot at the end in which the armoured vehicles / knights pull up impotently at the edge of the woods while the guerillas scamper off into the undergrowth — suddenly the armour looks pathetic and defensive rather than in your face aggressive, working the same ambiguity that a man with a visor on his helmet cannot be seen, but also cannot see very much). This seems crucial to RH since the whole question is who makes the law, or, which set of laws applies here and now, in the absence of the transcendental signified (sorry) father (sorry) king. i.e an outlaw bends the laws, puts the laws out of joint, by revealing that there is no space which is without law. Terrorist seems to me more of a social imaginary question — i.e. the freedom-fighter / terrorist janus-face thing is a question of legitimacy rather than law, and derives from social (pseudo-natural) rather than legal framework.

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-44784 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:10:07 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-44784 that was the best bit!

except she should have sed OW!! really loudly and then been all “oops sorry” to the sherriff and everyone comedy gold ect ect

i like his hapless sleaziness! — it fits his general “i have a beard yet i’m only 12” demeanour

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By: Sarah https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/comment-page-1#comment-44780 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:57:23 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/10/robinwatch/#comment-44780 I never spot the ‘obvious’ things in telly but I spotted Maid Pieface from the off! FULL MARKS FOR ME!

Anyway, there was NO NEED/ALL THE NEED IN THE WORLD FOR:

peon: i shot the sherriff!
sheriff: you only shot the deputy

We found a mouse in our kitchen the other day, I would like R. Hood to have a bish at it with an arrow – the first kill is free, etc etc.

ALSO: what was the bit where he shot Maid Pieface ON THE BUM??? What did he shoot her with?? I am actually quite uncomfy with Rob and Pieface, he has a terrible dynamic with ‘in the market’ ladies ie non-stop sleaze oh let me in your bed oh let me hit you up the bum with an arrow oh every single conversation ends up with him hitting on her after three seconds and she (impressively) remains still pie, I mean, po-faced at him haha. ARGH HE IS SPOIRAL!

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