Still alive, & bearing ficlets

[espresso_addict]

Pokes head above parapet... Not been writing much this year and it shows, but here for completeness are the fruits...

Mrs Reed
Jane Eyre AU drabble

Dark Knight
Guy dreams of Marian. Dark ficlet set early S1
Robin Hood (BBC)

Crossposted from Dreamwidth (with

Comments

[miss_morland]

It's wonderful to hear from you! Love the Jane Eyre drabble. :-) (Not familiar with the other fandom.)

[espresso_addict]

Thanks! The JE one calls for a sequel in which the wealthy widow Reed, with her small child, meets Rochester whilst chaperoning Georgiana Reed at a ball; somehow I think she'd be less receptive to his charms.

The recent BBC version of the Robin Hood legend is weirdly miscast -- the gorgeous Richard Armitage plays the classic bad guy woobie and utterly steals the show.

[kalypso_v]

I thought just about everybody stole the show except Robin and Marian. Richard Armitage was gorgeous and brooding but the scriptwriters couldn't work out what to do with him, Sam Troughton was so good at making bad lines sound funny that they rewarded him by giving him less to do in later series, Keith Allen was fun and had a stunning wardrobe, David Harewood was belatedly brought in and also looked gorgeous but was given practically nothing to do, Lara Pulver was briefly more interesting than Marian before they decided to make her a cardboard villain...

[espresso_addict]

Love your icon. I got the impression from the first two series (I haven't seen any of the third season; aside from Guy of Long Hair & Toby Stephens as Cackling Villain it sounds eminently missable) that the writers didn't know how to write for the age for which the show was intended, which got them particularly stuck with Guy & Vaisey. Armitage & Allen had great chemistry. Robin was loathsome, which surely can't have been intentional. I lost all sympathy for him when he kept attacking Much.

[kalypso_v]

I really have no idea how it got to three series - it was so badly written and the romantic leads were very weak (especially Marian, though they managed to write her out eventually). There were rumours of plans for a spin-off/fourth series without Robin but featuring a new lead character introduced in the final episode, but nothing came of it (almost certainly a good thing).

I'd completely forgotten that Toby Stephens turned up as Prince John...