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[morganmuffle]

So would someone with a paid/permanent LJ mind linking to this just as an experiment... I want to see how this whole pingback this they announced in the news post works

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[trobadora]

I'd help, but I've disabled pingbacks on mine. Sorry!

[morganmuffle]

*g*

Fair enough! I haven't decided if I'm going to leave them on or not yet but I wanted to play with them a bit first before I decide.

[trobadora]

I may turn them on again in future, but I thought I'd better turn them off until I've made up my mind. Better to err on the side of caution. But if you don't mind, I'd love to hear your thoughts after you've tried them out a bit!

[morganmuffle]

That probably is sensible but I'll let you know. I don't think that many people link to me really so it's probably not going to be very useful for me (though perhaps it'll prove that assumption wrong *g*)

[effervescent]

I tried, but I'm not sure if it worked?

[morganmuffle]

Thank you! Nothing so far but they did say it took a little bit of the time for the bot to pick stuff up so we'll see.

[klo_the_hobbit]

Good wasn't it? Managed to be incredibly funny and incredibly unsettling and yes, all good things.
I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the character, but me and Nicky fell in love with the ridiculously thin boy with insane hair. Are you very suprised?

[morganmuffle]

Biondello?

LOL If I'd thought to guess who you might like I think I'd probably have got it right *g* He was pretty funny though and I did loce the way he and the other servant guy sort of bonded...

It really was very funny at the beginning, and very unnerving later.

[klo_the_hobbit]

I believe that is his name, yes.
It wasn't wildly difficult probably. He was a bit trampy and lithe and funny. Apparently thats how I like them *eyeroll*

[morganmuffle]

There's nothing really wrong with that! After all I liked the one with quite pretty eyes and then the very pretty girls... that probably wasn't outside the realms of guessing either!

(I was very impressed with Bianca actually, I mean I know the character's a bit of a cipher but previously she'd done Poirot and St Trinians which isn't exactly a lot...)

[morganmuffle]

... in the RSC production she definitely doesn't hate the bonnet. In fact we'd never seen the bonnet before and the only one we HAD seen Katherina was defending and whilst I know I don't know the play all that well I don't remember her hating it?

But then I also don't think that speech as written really says much about a husband being dutiful (except in so far as she suggests a husband is out working for the wife but nothing about how he should treat her and Petruchio? Is not a dutiful husband he's a twat... he starves her deliberately!)

But then I suppose that's why the play always provokes debate.

[morganmuffle]

The BBC one definitely made it seem like the speech went both ways and I rally loved it but I felt it was possibly interpreting the text in a way I didn't see when I read it.

But it's been ages since I read it too so perhaps I should add it to my "to read" pile. That scene definitely wasn't there last night! *g* Last night it was very much just a way of him showing his power/control over her.

[donna_k]

I have linked to this page in a public post - do we think it will work? :)