Today is my Friday - I have the next two days off from the dayjob, which I need really, really badly. Tomorrow night, I see Rammstein!
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The costumes are something else! And Alun Armstrong is a treasure.
I'm incredibly fond of the Lady Sarah/Will stuff, which biases me, but I think it's something that the romance wasn't invented out of whole cloth, as sometimes writers do with fictionalizations of the lives of historical people. Their relationship is inspired by William Garrow's actual relationship with Sarah Dore.
They could have still left it out, or made it a minor part of the story, of course.
I'm currently beta-reading a Sarah/Will fic where the author was running with some spec I did that Will is a virgin and... ZOMG. THESE TWO. I DON'T EVEN.
Yes! :) Though, by "historical" I mean as historical as anything they do -- they tweak things rather a lot to make Garrow's admittably admirable contributions fit within a straightforwardly heroic narrative when, um, in fact they often didn't. That treason case that series one ended with? Apparently the actual William Garrow was the prosecution in the case that was molded after, not the brave defender!
With Will and Sarah's relationship they have a lot of room for wiggling, though, since little is known of the precise details of their connection and there's a lot of mystery. Occasionally descendants of the actual couple will pop up on the BBC blog to complain about the portrayal, though. Lol.
I totally would read that story. Feel free to send the link my way when it's posted.
Will do! It's quite beautiful. It does have massive spoilers for the second series, though.
He did do some truly cool stuff, though, like in 1783 he got a Mary Wood and Sarah Slade, a mother and daughter, off for theft. And in one particular moment, this exchange took place:
Samuel Yardley: [The items] were in the prisoner Slade's lap, and this key I found on her, which opens the prosecutor's door.
Mr. Garrow: How do you know that, did you ever try it?
Yardley: No.
Garrow: Then do not tell us any thing of it.
LOL Burn. So moments like that are totally accurate, happily.
I'm incredibly fond of the Lady Sarah/Will stuff, which biases me, but I think it's something that the romance wasn't invented out of whole cloth, as sometimes writers do with fictionalizations of the lives of historical people. Their relationship is inspired by William Garrow's actual relationship with Sarah Dore.
They could have still left it out, or made it a minor part of the story, of course.
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So, yeah. My bias, it is vast! ;)
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I totally would read that story. Feel free to send the link my way when it's posted.
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With Will and Sarah's relationship they have a lot of room for wiggling, though, since little is known of the precise details of their connection and there's a lot of mystery. Occasionally descendants of the actual couple will pop up on the BBC blog to complain about the portrayal, though. Lol.
I totally would read that story. Feel free to send the link my way when it's posted.
Will do! It's quite beautiful. It does have massive spoilers for the second series, though.
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LOL about the prosecutor role! I assume he didn't make a speech that lasted hours, though.
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That site being, of course, the official archive of the Old Bailey court records. Truly a den of cyber iniquity if ever there was one!
((facepalm))
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Samuel Yardley: [The items] were in the prisoner Slade's lap, and this key I found on her, which opens the prosecutor's door.
Mr. Garrow: How do you know that, did you ever try it?
Yardley: No.
Garrow: Then do not tell us any thing of it.
LOL Burn. So moments like that are totally accurate, happily.
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