Moves in Curves

OMG. Seriously. Can’t stop laughing. I LOVE IT.

I’m on a horse.

Here’s the shipped tweets I made last night. I think I may do this for all of the final season – record my live-tweets rather than contribute yet another synopsis of the show to the intarwebz. So here you go. Season 6, episode 1-2.

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This scene, right here, this is why I love Grey’s Anatomy, and especially why I love Bailey. And Sloan the man-whore. “So let us all close our knees…”

Is it odd that I can forgive historical inaccuracies in the plot more easily than I can in the clothes? Seriously, I’m totally willing to suspend my disbelief and pretend Henry VIII looked like Jonathan Rhys Meyers, for example, or that Lord Bothwell Duke of Orkney was a good guy, but damn, put the right shoes on them!

I love a good period film, I really do, and I love bitching about inaccuracies in the timeline or perceived characterizations of historical figures, and I even love giggling over who Hollywood casts to play those figures (that’s who you think Achilles looked like? Really?), but I really need them to wear the correct clothing to the time period. Inaccuracies in jewelry are a pet peeve of mine to a lesser degree, I don’t get nearly as worked up over using modern faceted gems in a time period hundreds of years before gems were faceted as I do about, for example, Richard III wearing a motorcycle jacket and pretending it’s a doublet.

This is why I love Rome right now. I got one look at their shoes and went into transports of archaeological delight. Yay HBO! Maybe you should show Showtime how to do garb research before they start filming the next season of the Tudors, eh? It gets progressively worse every year, despite plenty of archaeological evidence from the time period for the cut, construction, fabric, stitching, accessories, etc.

Mon, 10pm, ABC: Castle

Tues, 8pm, CBS: NCIS (and probably NCIS-LA afterward, though it’s not as good, and then the Good Wife)

Wed, 10pm, ABC: Eastwick

Thur, 8pm, Fox: Bones

Thur, 9pm, ABC: Grey’s Anatomy (and probably Private Practice afterward, though again, not as good)

Aside from that, I’ll be writing. It’s NaNoWriMo time again!