"Face the front, please, Little Ron."

[usuallyhats]

- Happy belated birthday, stoplookingup! Hope you had a great day.

- Oh dear, I really am terrible at posting during the holidays. Here are some things what I have been doing:

1) Saw Sherlock Holmes. Loved Sherlock Holmes. It was smashing! There were fights and explosions and jokes and deductin'. Jude Law made a fantastic Watson, RDJ was brill (but then he generally is) and they had BOATLOADS of chemistry. I love what they've done with Irene Adler, and Mary was great too. (OT4 time now, please.) The whole thing was done with loads of wit and verve and joy. Bring on the inevitable sequel, says I. I did zone out once or twice during the exposition, but that may just have been because I was distracted by my attempts to unstick my feet from the cinema floor.

2) Had lovely people round last night, played games and also watched the first three episodes of Maid Marian and her Merry Men (apologies to anyone who will now have the theme tune in their head for the rest of the day). This is by far the best version of Robin Hood ever and I defy anyone to tell me otherwise. YES.

3) Working on stuffs for fandom_stocking, somewhat hampered by my inability to write ficlets without getting carried away and going on and on and on.

4) I have done other things but either I have forgotten about them or they are uninteresting to people who are not me, so there we go.

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

LOL at #4!

Writing short fics is HARD!! My Hermans generally run away with the plot!

[usuallyhats]

I know! I keep thinking, oh, I'll just explain that, and expand that, and then it gets out of hand...

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

LOL I know what you mean!

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

*begins singing the Maid Marion theme*

Best. Version. Ever. *luffs that show*

Wait does that mean its out on DVD now? That would be awesome.

[usuallyhats]

It is! Lovely shiny discs full of extras, hurray!

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

*bounces excitedly*

I cannot wait to have a job again so I can have all four series all for myself...

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Whoa, old-school! (I have a "Maid Marian" comic book somewhere in my stash. It was indeed lolarious and an appropriate parody of the Robinverse.)

[usuallyhats]

I had some of the comic books too! I've just rescued them from my mum's cull of children's books.

(I love your icon!)

[everlasting-day.livejournal.com]

Robin of Sherwood is the best (serious) Robin Hood ever! Maid Marion is utterly fab, though. Like Blackadder but for kids (and by extension, everyone). I'm young enough to have actually seen it when it was first on CBBC, which paradoxically makes me feel really old.

[usuallyhats]

Like Blackadder but for kids (and by extension, everyone).

Like Blackadder, but even sillier, which I can't help but approve of. I watched it first time round too - I think I was just the right age to appreciate it.

I keep meaning to watch Robin of Sherwood, I've heard so many good things about it.

[everlasting-day.livejournal.com]

I was probably a mite too young for it, but I still thought it was great. It really does hold up these days, which is really nice because there's nothing worse than beloved childhood TV being not so good when you watch it all grown up.

Robin of Sherwood is great, from the time when ITV used to be good and had regional programme makers and whatnot. It's all lovely and mystical woo-eighties, with great writing and locations and characters and acting. I'd recommend it to anyone.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_catharine_/]

Thank you for having us over, and for yummy chilli. :-)

I'll be thinking of this on p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pancake day!

[usuallyhats]

Heeeee!

Thank you for coming! :)