Robin Hood 2.8-2.13

First off, a Marian vid, spoilery only for the season 1 finale:

Also, good Djaq videos don’t exist. I’m just saying.

Comments are mostly about the finale, and include spoilers for the end of the second season of Robin of Sherwood.

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House of Eliot: Season 1 (complete)

Set in the 1920s, House of Eliot is an early 90s BBC production about Beatrice and Evangeline Eliot, two girls who are left penniless and in debt after their domineering father’s (he refused to let either girl go to school, forced Bea-who is 12 years older-to be Evie’s mother and mentor, refused to let Bea help with the War, and caused he to lose her first love) death. After trying out other jobs and befriending the Maddox siblings-Penelope, who runs a mission, and Jack, a photographer-they eventually open their own fashion house.

The season (I believe there are three total) begins with their father’s death, and ends answering the question of whether or not they’ll be a success. They characters are fairly normal-Bea is smart and practical and independent, Evie is romantic and has Deeply Questionable taste in men, Penelope is almost obsessively committed to her cause, Jack is forward thinking and is a womanizer who doesn’t realize the Right One is already there (a trope I’m tired of, but that’s handled extremely well here), their Aunt Lydia is well meaning, but snobbish, their maid Tilly is utterly loyal, etc.-but very well done and endearing, as are their various relationships.

There wasn’t quite as much 1920s clothing pr0n as I’d expected, but that’s ok. Mostly, the series focused on the lives of women in the 1920s trying to find their footing, and then trying to find their way through the business world to success. The first half focused a lot on Bea and Evie experiencing real society for the first time and being out and about in it, and the second half shifted the focus over to the business world, as both moved beyond their sheltered existences and came out of their shells, even as the lives of everyone else around them also changed.

I look forward to the subsequent seasons.

And so cherished childhood memories wither up.

George Lucas on Marion ravenwood.

G — He’s thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve. It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.

S — And promiscuous. She came onto him.

G — Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it’s an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she’s sixteen or seventeen it’s not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he…

I...what?  Women who come on to men are promiscuous-especially if they're young teenagers, and statutory rape is more interesting the younger the minor is?

Am I the only one who took Indy and Marion's exchange in Raiders of the Lost Arc as their ages probably being around 25~ and 17-18?  Young enough for him to be robbing the cradle and probably taking advantage of a schoolgirl crush, but old enough to be convinced that she had at least some idea of what she was getting in to?

Gaming and the female as exotic.

I'm catching up with Hathor Legacy and (A) don't know enough about gaming in general or these games specifically to have an opinion on the article's stance and (B) don't have enough time before work to think about this and form an opinion to post, but some here might find this interesting, whether gender and race in gaming/fiction interest you or not:

What Portal Did and What Mirror’s Edge Didn’t Do (or: The Female as Exotic)