Here is a thing
I am very tired from the hospital visit (plus parents) yesterday, as it was in the afternoon. Afternoons are resting time, not doing excessively tiring things time. So I will catch up sometime soon when I am able. In the meantime, I am getting by through rewatching The Shadow of the Tower again. This inevitably led to me having a go a giffing the cute but very probably anachronistic monkey, so I am sharing that with you now, because the internet can obviously never have enough cute animals:
And in things I shouldn't have giffed but it was in the same episode and seriously, the things old-time BBC wouldn't bother to do retakes on* (especially when they've done a scene involving animals earlier no doubt). James Maxwell should be waaaay more cautious about how he gets out of bed on national telly when wearing 15th C nightshirts, that's all I can say and now I've disturbed myself:
ETA: Also explain to me the really good historical reason that John Cabot ends up with the Earl of Lincoln's outfit, because he does. (It's not that The Shadow of the Tower was cheap, it's just that it spent all its budget on dogs, monkeys, horses, a million candles, and CSO for scenery, because it was a TV show with no sense of self-prservation whatsoever and a good sense of the proper priorities in life.)
* The best one still being that bit in the BBC 1978 Julius Caesar where the guy dies on top of David Collings the wrong way round and Richard Pasco has to stand there and give a speech about how he's facing the other way around when clearly he isn't.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth -- Comments there:
And in things I shouldn't have giffed but it was in the same episode and seriously, the things old-time BBC wouldn't bother to do retakes on* (especially when they've done a scene involving animals earlier no doubt). James Maxwell should be waaaay more cautious about how he gets out of bed on national telly when wearing 15th C nightshirts, that's all I can say and now I've disturbed myself:
ETA: Also explain to me the really good historical reason that John Cabot ends up with the Earl of Lincoln's outfit, because he does. (It's not that The Shadow of the Tower was cheap, it's just that it spent all its budget on dogs, monkeys, horses, a million candles, and CSO for scenery, because it was a TV show with no sense of self-prservation whatsoever and a good sense of the proper priorities in life.)
* The best one still being that bit in the BBC 1978 Julius Caesar where the guy dies on top of David Collings the wrong way round and Richard Pasco has to stand there and give a speech about how he's facing the other way around when clearly he isn't.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth -- Comments there: