robin hood 3x2 and why he is a dick

[basilthehamster]

i'm starting this post with a little bit of blogging, so if you are just looking for the episode recap you can skip my rambling and philosophizing (i like that word, philosophizing. i will use it more often.) and i won't be offended.
i had never heard of Kimya Dawson or the moldy peaches before Juno came out, but i really wish i had so it wouldn't

Comments

[mideltone_one]

Thank you so much for these reviews - I really enjoy the way you write them, and the odd way they chime with what I'm thinking.

Anyway, in the best British tradition of buttering you up before putting the knife in (how smutty does that sound!), I thought I should just point out that Jonas says '"run" like it has an umlaut' because he has a Lancashire accent - it's not Irish at all. Given that they're all supposed to be fairly local, they have a weird mix of accents. Allan a Dale has a North London accent, Litle John's is Scottish, and Kate sounds like an idiot whatever accent she uses

[basilthehamster]

first of all, don't ever worry about giving me constructive criticism. unlike some others i could mention, but won't, i like to learn and improve where i can. so it's all good.

but that being said, i never said that robin used an irish accent, but that jonas is irish and being around all the irishness, his fake english accent was especially crappy this time. i don't think he intends his accent to be lancashire, that's just the best he can do. cuz robin is a noble and grew up in locksley - why the hell would he talk like a northerner? he ought to sound like Much.

If he's got loads of men in the forest, can he not just shout "fire"? Granted if Kate was involved she'd probably try to set fire to the forest. I wonder if her mother regrets letting her drink the lead glaze from the pottery when she was young.LOL! her mother probably regrets a lot of things. notice how she didn't seem all that surprised that her son was killed and that it was kate's fault? and kate mentioned having a little sister who is young enough to not remember RH,

[mideltone_one]

his fake english accent was especially crappy this time
I've seen him being interviewed, as himself, and that is his accent. He doesn't put in on for the show. He moved to Lancashire when he was six, and (according to something I heard on the radio long ago) the vocal chords can adapt to pick up an accent flawlessly until the child is about seven. So if he'd moved later we might have him saying "Oim Robin Hood, to be sure."

I don't have a problem with Robin's accent, I just think he need a slap round the face from time to time when he gets too big for his boots (hourly should just about cover it.)

she's probably got like 6 others as backup. cuz ya know, kids these days, they die so easily...You jest, but apparently parents did use to give two or more of their children the same name, because they didn't expect them all to make it out of childhood, and they didn't want the name to die out

[basilthehamster]

ah, i see. i didn't know that. i've never seen him in interviews cuz i just don't give a fuck what he has to say. lol. it still makes no sense that robin hood have that accent, not being from anywhere near there.

[mideltone_one]

Personally I don't care so much what any of them say or do, as long as the camera stays on Allan for the majority of the show, I'm happy.

[basilthehamster]

p.s. i looked it up and the dickens book is "chuzzlewick" not chuzzlebutt. close, tho.

[mideltone_one]

Martin Chuzzlewitt

I can't read Dickins because of the stupid names. There is a BBC radio comedy series parodying this called Bleak Expectations which has the characters Pip Bin (inventor of the bin) and Pippa Bin (his sister) who are sent to terrible boarding schools (St Bastard's and St Bitch's, by their evil guardian Mr Gently Benevolent "who was, ironically, a complete bastard."