Paladins in Troubled Times picspam

The picspam I threatened earlier.  Uhm...much bigger than intended, all from eps 9-24.  The pics are fairly decently sorted into characters and character combinations, with no context say for what you can glean from the subtitles.

Though those can be INTERESTINGLY AND INAPPROPRIATELY MISLEADING OUT OF CONTEXT.  Observe:

 

  



 

( lots and lots and lots of caps )

Camelot 1.5-1.7

Wow, some of this was actually almost good. Though, if they kill Ygraine at the end of the season (which I suspect they’re leading up to) I’m probably gone. While Morgan is unsurprisingly my favorite, I’m judging the show more harshly when it comes to Ygraine, and having her still be around for the main story and not just disappearing after giving birth and having her child(ren, given that a lot of versions have Morgan and Morguase being sent away with Merlin urging Uther to kill Morgan because she'll be trouble) stolen is pretty much my main incentive to watch.

Also, Gawaine, Kay and Leontes can stay, but please, feel free to get rid of the rest of the men. Actually, I'd prefer it if you would.

( Spoilers are long winded. Like an English major. )

Never change, romance novel publishers. Actually, do.

Or at least, Harlequin.

The other day, I picked up this book by Helen Dickson:

Mostly, because I liked the cover and it said ENGLISH CIVIL WAR on the spine. I did, of course, laugh at the title for a while. No, Harlequin Historical books don't fare much better than regular Harlequins when it comes to titles, though they are more likely to be decent books.

Anyway, then I kept being bugged about why it looked so familiar, and then I remembered this book, which I read a while back:

 

 

Harlequin, you've probably had 10 titles in the last 7 or 8 years, if that, set in that time period*.  It's like if you only had 5 images to spread between your dozens and dozens of Regencies and Victorians!

I...uhm...may have taken to picking up Harlequin Historicals at the bookstores lately.  Mostly because they kindly put the setting on the spines, and so while browsing through it's "blah blah REGENCY blah blah VICTORIAN blah blah REGENCY blah blah WESTERN blah blah REGENCY blah blah TUDOR! EUROPEAN**! MEDIEVAL! ENGLISH CIVIL WAR!" which is so much easier than investigating any title that sounds interesting.

Incidentally, I haven't read any books by Dickson (though this one sounds similar to the Angelica/Rainsborough plot in Devil's Whore), but I do not recommend the Thornton.  It's a "we were in love and things happened and there was this war and we were torn apart, but now we have found each other again" plot, hich...often does not work for me as a romantic plotline, but can in this setting (and, in fact, did in the last romance novel set in the period that I read before it) but not this one.  It's one of those where she did something self-sacrificing to save him but he thought she betrayed him and now he hates her (until he loves her again) and she's forced to go to him for help and he spends the whole book ounishing her for her "betrayal" and she has to put up th it because he's her only recourse.  And in this case, it was apparently more traumatic for him to see her having sex with someone else than it was for her to be forced to marry someone she hated and be emotionally, physically and sexually abused until  she was eventually able to escape.


*Nicola Cornick should write more.  I haven't been able to get into the couple of Regencies of hers that I've tried, but I recall liking her Civil War book.
**This has meant "15th-18th century Italy" in the ones I've come across so far.