Under the Greenwood Tree
Apr. 25th, 2006 06:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lesbiassparrowAm I the only person who has seen this? Because it is hard not to think it's a parody of every Thomas Hardy and historical drama made by the BBC and ITV. It's actually quite funny in a sort of hearty peasant, floppy-hatted way.
The only thing that I haven't heard yet is 'ee, by gum.' I am sure that is coming.
ETA: Sadly no 'by gums' though there was a lot of dancing on the green and swinging enthusiastically. And I think it was a happy ending as no deaths in the snow/illegitimate babies/casting out. Hardy must have been in one of his rare cheery moods. (Though I was disappointed that I had managed to misidentify this one as the one where the guy has walled his dead wife up in the chimney, as I wanted to see the big reveal scene.)
Also, I bring you perhaps my favourite quote from all of classical antiquity:
"Sempronia, learned in Greek and Latin literature, was able to play the lyre and dance more elegantly than was necessary for a respectable woman."
The only thing that I haven't heard yet is 'ee, by gum.' I am sure that is coming.
ETA: Sadly no 'by gums' though there was a lot of dancing on the green and swinging enthusiastically. And I think it was a happy ending as no deaths in the snow/illegitimate babies/casting out. Hardy must have been in one of his rare cheery moods. (Though I was disappointed that I had managed to misidentify this one as the one where the guy has walled his dead wife up in the chimney, as I wanted to see the big reveal scene.)
Also, I bring you perhaps my favourite quote from all of classical antiquity:
"Sempronia, learned in Greek and Latin literature, was able to play the lyre and dance more elegantly than was necessary for a respectable woman."
