only 1 week to go...
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weaselettOnly have a week before my exams start - first University level exams, three hours in a room, with a question sheet. Argh. Tis scared.
First exam may well be the worst - through legislation i can remember....fingers crossed.
No progress has been made on any fics - or at least not enough to mention...*hangs head* but no revision has been done yet either, soo, yeah....am a failure.
In, just over two weeks time however - i will have plenty of time to work on fics - as, two weeks wed, is my last exam, and as far as i am aware my last day. WOOO!! lol.
Have finally seen the first four eps of Stargate season nine - tis weird without Jack - and there has been very little if any explanation of where the hell he's gone. *shakes head*. Also spent a few moments of Avalon with my fingers in my ears, cos, man, tis painful myth killing. Yep - am so British some days it hurts. Am snotty. Also, saw an episode of Due South *dies*. How i missed it. Have to resist the urge to buy the boxset - must resist the urge....
And now - the Tristan and Isolde Review - behind a cut - so anyone who hasn't seen it doesn't want to be spoiled...look away now!!
Ok - well, james spent the whole thing waiting for our medieval and post medieval lecturer Ian to step in from the side of the screen, so yeah you have been warned!!
The history, was, ummm, interesting to say the least. But it was a good revision exercise - spot the error - could write that thing i have to write in....yeah am sooo not thinking about my third year yet....ummm yeah could right a book. lol.
Just for tose who have seen the film and don't know about the Anglo-saxon 'invasion' of Britain (not the first, not the last....we're walk overs once you get your boat over, honest *sighs*) The Jutes (one of the four main 'clans' from the germanic ish area of europe) weren't ambling around in the north in a place called 'Juteland' That particular area of Britain (Yorkshire and Northumbria, ish) was the Danelaw - vikings, they got here before the angles and saxons, then got kicked out by said peoples - the jutes were here-ish - there only be evidence for them around here in the south - and much of that is recent evidence. Cornwall, was a minor kingdom, barely worth being mentioned (hence why the whole, 'Arthur pendragon' thing has been thrown out the window, LONG ago.) whereas Wessex, Saxon land, (Wessex coming from 'West Saxons', furthering my theories about history being all about drunk people. someone slurred West saxons, and the kingdom became Wessex) is the place that over ran the others,and gave us a king, hurrah. Not. Has william been mentioned....sorry *blushes* wrong time.
Books did not exist at this time - and if they did, we would not have the report of a tapestry to go off *rolls eyes* scrolls on the other hand, and good old roman stone slabs, did.
The likelyhood of a burial boat not burning and then drifting off to Ireland to land on the coast in line with Dublin, from Cornwall, is slim. The da's comment about strong currents is going be ignored. Mainly due to the fact that i think he has a block when it comes to Bristol. Was also kinda entertained to see that towns existed in the exact same places as Dublin and Belfast do now. Not to mention that fact that the Irish had somehow gained control of the whole of Britain without actually being here.... even the Romans failed on that one. They had to be here, and they left Wales and cornwall the hell alone for the most part. Not to mention the scots.
And that is just a few of the problems with the 'research' that sooo obviously went into the making of the film..... *sighs* It would be nice, to just once, see an american film, based on British myths/history, hell on European history, that's actually been researched. King Arthur, i could ignore the crud - but this one - it was impossible. Tis a little depressing.
BUT if you close off the part of your mind that reckonises fact, Tristan and Isolde is an alright film. Could watch it again. But don't think i'll be buying the DVD for myself. Isolde's accent, wasn't Irish, and didn't seem to stay especially constant, not that poor Sophie didn't try... whereas only one of the other Irish characters had an Irish accetn rather than Scottish - but i guess, if they said they were scots (the scots can from ireland, to the south of scotland - north scotland is picts, and a few others) they could kinda get away with it. Also to be ignored is the roman things that appear, cos, um, wrongness, yeah....
The thing is, a lot of it from what i can tell, is due to the choices made in the version of the Tristan and Isolde myth that they used. Cos,some versions of it are better, and more realistic than others. In other words, when its cornish and Welsh, or Welsh and Irish.
Of course, for James the thing that pissed him off the most was the fact they all understood one another - and seemed to speak the same language. Instead of Cornish, verius dialects of Gaelic, and Anglo-saxon languages. But, it was only a film...lol.
First exam may well be the worst - through legislation i can remember....fingers crossed.
No progress has been made on any fics - or at least not enough to mention...*hangs head* but no revision has been done yet either, soo, yeah....am a failure.
In, just over two weeks time however - i will have plenty of time to work on fics - as, two weeks wed, is my last exam, and as far as i am aware my last day. WOOO!! lol.
Have finally seen the first four eps of Stargate season nine - tis weird without Jack - and there has been very little if any explanation of where the hell he's gone. *shakes head*. Also spent a few moments of Avalon with my fingers in my ears, cos, man, tis painful myth killing. Yep - am so British some days it hurts. Am snotty. Also, saw an episode of Due South *dies*. How i missed it. Have to resist the urge to buy the boxset - must resist the urge....
And now - the Tristan and Isolde Review - behind a cut - so anyone who hasn't seen it doesn't want to be spoiled...look away now!!
Ok - well, james spent the whole thing waiting for our medieval and post medieval lecturer Ian to step in from the side of the screen, so yeah you have been warned!!
The history, was, ummm, interesting to say the least. But it was a good revision exercise - spot the error - could write that thing i have to write in....yeah am sooo not thinking about my third year yet....ummm yeah could right a book. lol.
Just for tose who have seen the film and don't know about the Anglo-saxon 'invasion' of Britain (not the first, not the last....we're walk overs once you get your boat over, honest *sighs*) The Jutes (one of the four main 'clans' from the germanic ish area of europe) weren't ambling around in the north in a place called 'Juteland' That particular area of Britain (Yorkshire and Northumbria, ish) was the Danelaw - vikings, they got here before the angles and saxons, then got kicked out by said peoples - the jutes were here-ish - there only be evidence for them around here in the south - and much of that is recent evidence. Cornwall, was a minor kingdom, barely worth being mentioned (hence why the whole, 'Arthur pendragon' thing has been thrown out the window, LONG ago.) whereas Wessex, Saxon land, (Wessex coming from 'West Saxons', furthering my theories about history being all about drunk people. someone slurred West saxons, and the kingdom became Wessex) is the place that over ran the others,and gave us a king, hurrah. Not. Has william been mentioned....sorry *blushes* wrong time.
Books did not exist at this time - and if they did, we would not have the report of a tapestry to go off *rolls eyes* scrolls on the other hand, and good old roman stone slabs, did.
The likelyhood of a burial boat not burning and then drifting off to Ireland to land on the coast in line with Dublin, from Cornwall, is slim. The da's comment about strong currents is going be ignored. Mainly due to the fact that i think he has a block when it comes to Bristol. Was also kinda entertained to see that towns existed in the exact same places as Dublin and Belfast do now. Not to mention that fact that the Irish had somehow gained control of the whole of Britain without actually being here.... even the Romans failed on that one. They had to be here, and they left Wales and cornwall the hell alone for the most part. Not to mention the scots.
And that is just a few of the problems with the 'research' that sooo obviously went into the making of the film..... *sighs* It would be nice, to just once, see an american film, based on British myths/history, hell on European history, that's actually been researched. King Arthur, i could ignore the crud - but this one - it was impossible. Tis a little depressing.
BUT if you close off the part of your mind that reckonises fact, Tristan and Isolde is an alright film. Could watch it again. But don't think i'll be buying the DVD for myself. Isolde's accent, wasn't Irish, and didn't seem to stay especially constant, not that poor Sophie didn't try... whereas only one of the other Irish characters had an Irish accetn rather than Scottish - but i guess, if they said they were scots (the scots can from ireland, to the south of scotland - north scotland is picts, and a few others) they could kinda get away with it. Also to be ignored is the roman things that appear, cos, um, wrongness, yeah....
The thing is, a lot of it from what i can tell, is due to the choices made in the version of the Tristan and Isolde myth that they used. Cos,some versions of it are better, and more realistic than others. In other words, when its cornish and Welsh, or Welsh and Irish.
Of course, for James the thing that pissed him off the most was the fact they all understood one another - and seemed to speak the same language. Instead of Cornish, verius dialects of Gaelic, and Anglo-saxon languages. But, it was only a film...lol.
