Babbling

[selenay]

So, first episode of Robin of Sherwood down and I now understand why munchinknott and others were squeeing over it. Heh.

Also, I can completely see why Mercedes Lackey used Michael Praed as her mental image of Vanyel. It's like watching Vanyel, only in green with a Maid Marion fetish rather than in white with a Stefen thing. I watched Robin when I was a kid (um, why did my parents let me watch that?), but hadn't really put all of this together until watching it today as an adult. I'm sure that the covers of the Vanyel books helped me with that mental image, but...um...wow. And it's finally done for my image of Frail!Vanyel - if she was using MP as her image, then Vanyel is slender, yet beautifully toned and wiry and absolutely not frail. I would, however, not feel at all guilty about using the word 'beautiful' in connection to him. Masculine beauty, but still definitely fitting the word.

Sadly, there is no Stefen comparitor here. Darn. Wonder who ML based his image on?

Possibly this is a good thing. I'd be mentally slashing Robin with the Stefen-look-alike rather than following the canon Maid Marion thing.

Although I might have spotted sparkage between Robin and Little John.

No! Don't go there! Bad brain.

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[historyterry.livejournal.com]

Am quite up to watching some of this tonight, btw. It'd be a nice reminisce. If you can put up with the usual comments, that is... :-).

[selenay]

It would have been fun if we could have stayed awake for it. Darn! Just have to watch it on my own, now...