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University of Armitage Studies

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MrsLucasNorth · 16/11/2010 20:44

And here are our study materials for the evening. Not sure if we've had them before, but have tried to find new ones - is getting trickier Grin!

Enjoy!

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Theresaholeinyourmind · 22/11/2010 23:26

YT has started blocking some Sony stuff in some areas, this must be another one. Crazily enough they seem to have left the Robin one up. Sigh.
Luckily there an awful lot of them left that I can see

MrsLucasNorth · 22/11/2010 23:27

Oyster have just seen your last link...you're gooood!
How do you find time to do anything else???!!!

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PrairieOyster · 22/11/2010 23:31

It's a great site - some of those are not available on YT and of course, there is also......the high definition option...at least for some of them

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

PrairieOyster · 22/11/2010 23:35

The North and South videos are not on that site though, they are here and there.

Theresaholeinyourmind · 22/11/2010 23:36

Oyster, do you know why nearly all the vids include that awful armour he tries on, it makes him look so ungainly, even though he has no shirt on.

PrairieOyster · 22/11/2010 23:40

I really have no idea!!!!

Theresaholeinyourmind · 22/11/2010 23:42

Not much of a turn on, is it?
Or is that just me being picky?

PrairieOyster · 22/11/2010 23:44

I'm not looking at the armour...

MrsLucasNorth · 22/11/2010 23:45

It's you being picky Grin

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Theresaholeinyourmind · 22/11/2010 23:47

But he lurches about in those leg thingies like Frankenstein's monster. I find it too much of a distraction from the admittedly glorious pecs

Theresaholeinyourmind · 22/11/2010 23:49

I far prefer the shot where he takes his undertunic off with his back to the camera.
Totally wasted on Alan, that!

MrsLucasNorth · 22/11/2010 23:52

I'd just like to be the one fitting him for the armour...:Wink

Night night!

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Theresaholeinyourmind · 22/11/2010 23:54

good night

PrairieOyster · 23/11/2010 06:57

His new coat is Burberry

PrairieOyster · 23/11/2010 07:33

Credit to a lady on the RAC who found that link

BodenBabe · 23/11/2010 08:21

Womanizer is one of my favourite examples of the oeuvre. That 3'03 moment is from Between The Sheets. Have you seen that, Oyster? There is the most 'inspiring' RA moment I have ever seen in that.

Burberry - clicked on that link excitedly as DH needs a new coat and I LOVED that one. But nearly £1300?! Er, I think we'll be buying ours from Asda instead.

Re. Frank, when he was young he wanted to sound like Bing and tried to emulate his voice, I think that's what confused us. Frank's best version is when he was older, it's on the OST to When Harry Met Sally. Love that one.

ASmallBunchofFlowers · 23/11/2010 09:30

Morning all. Glad to see that the party continued last night.

I think I prefer the vids that are all from the same show (as evidenced by the fact that I am becoming corrupted by the leather-wearing, apple-biting, glove-removing, sword-brandishing Guy). The others are often a bit too frantic for me.

I agree with Theresa that the lurching across the room in the leg armour is not very appealing, especially in one so long of limb in whom one has such great, ahem, expectations. But I imagine the scene was included because they knew the watching mummies would start to dribble at Guy's naked torso to maintain the dramatic integrity of the piece.

There was, by the way, a lovely moment on Sunday night when his character was celebrating the many benefits of being Mr Armitage. He flopped down into an armchair, flung one long jeans-clad leg high in the air and said "Look! I'm lithe".

Boden - You're absolutely right about the development of Frank's voice. What interests me is that, for me, it is his young voice that sounds 'wrong' and his older voice that sounds 'right'. But then, this whole thread is testimony to preferring Men over Boys!

BodenBabe · 23/11/2010 09:39

"...as evidenced by the fact that I am becoming corrupted by the leather-wearing, apple-biting, glove-removing, sword-brandishing Guy"

I know, me too!! What's happening to us?!?! Still don't like him with silly long hair though (think Theresa said that was S3?)

That sounds very funny about the "I'm lithe" bit. I also LOL'd at the "oh my god, my pecs!" line. Would SO love to have seen this, it sounds hilarious - what a great premise. If you can remember any more funny bits like that, do share. Am desperately hoping a little sneaky clip or two may turn upin the archive at some point. How good was your view, btw, Flowers?

Right, on with the day. Christmas-cake making this morning - though I can never quite think of cakes the same way again after my chapter with GTN :) Then I have to play with DS (as in 'darling son', not as in Ninendo :D) I am a nasty mummy who fibbed to DS that the swimming pool is closed today. But honestly, have you felt how cold it is today?!

If you see me on here or Twitter today, shoo me away :)

ASmallBunchofFlowers · 23/11/2010 10:00

Well, of course, when I say corrupted I simply mean that I am beginning, ahem, to understand why some ladies have fallen so heavily for his disreputable charms!

Yes, the "I'm lithe" line was very funny. As was another line about "look! I've got all this hair", at which he pulled his fringe forward and swished it around in shampoo advert stylee. This is why I think he's such a good sport, as so much of it depended on (an affectionate) mocking of his screen persona.

I will share but really don't want people to start rolling their eyes and say "yeah, yeah, we know you were there, now just shut up about it". But I'm still glad I went. It was my duty, as they say, to take one for the team. As Harry said in the last episodes of Spooks, it was My Turn.

Looking at YT, what seems to be there are the films they show before the plays, which record the backstage stuff - the actors introducing themselves, the writers staring at blank sheets of paper/screens etc. So I expect this year's will end up on YT. The plays themselves don't seem to. They are beautiful bubbles which exist for half an hour and then pop, never to be seen again. Anyway, the film will be a treat because Mr Armitage is about the first actor they question about why he's taking part.

I have achieved a Twitter breakthrough. I have unfollowed TeenageTwitterLucas. He's all yours, BodenBabe.

Right. Off to work.

ASmallBunchofFlowers · 23/11/2010 10:03

PS My view to the stage was excellent. My view across to where members of the cast were sitting was even better. But of course I was concentrating on the plays and did not peep. Much.

MadameOvary · 23/11/2010 10:23

Flowers
What can I say? Apart from thankyouthankyouthankyou
I'm having difficulty getting my breath Grin
We really need a thud emoticom
"Beg" and "Fetch" gasp
Really glad I saw that before I watched the DVD with DP (have told him that I "quite fancy watching it" as "it looks quite good".
It was an involuntary reaction, bit like Marian when she comes in and sees him trying on armour. {grin}

ASmallBunchofFlowers · 23/11/2010 10:30

You're welcome, MadameOvary. I was just concerned that as you have missed out on several weeks' intensive study in the Academy, we need to bring some of the most important of our set texts to your attention.

This one is from the module on

MadameOvary · 23/11/2010 10:50

Wibble
I'm sat here grinning stupidly now.
Thanks Flowers.
I feared I may be lowering the tone as I love leather-clad, bad-boy Guy but I think I might be persuaded over to the gentler side Grin

BodenBabe · 23/11/2010 11:43

Flowers, we will never think "just shut up about it"!, I promise :) Love that hair line too. I agree, what a good sport.

Very proud of you on your Twitter breakthrough. I'm not strong enough to go cold turkey just yet.

MadamO, I've had those involuntary audible reactions, too - I usually manage to turn them into coughs :) Quite how I am going to remain silent (indeed, conscious) when we get round to Spooks S7 & S8 I have no idea.

I am rubbish at remembering which modules we have studied and when, but MadamO you probably ought to focus your research on for a while.

Oh and a propos of nothing in particular, when I was training at work we used to practice editing by playing one particular clip over and over. It doesn't matter what, any old thing will do. For example

MadameOvary · 23/11/2010 12:11

Bodenbabe,

Very funny re turning the gasp into a cough, will definitely remember that Grin

Lovely Lucas and Sarah vid Smile. And Snake Charmer is... (tails off, can't find the words to describe rampant deliciousness of Lucas + lap dance) If any of you are interested I have found a completely gorgeous piece of music which fits that quite well, very swoonsome.
Oh the joy at discovering you can mute one YT window and play your own music over the RA vids!
Hastily adds Not that I don't respect and approve of the song choices, but I am a frustrated vid-maker myself (had a taste of using edit suites at college, no time to do that sort of thing no) this is the closest I get.
Forgive my ignorance BodenBabe, you get to do this sort of thing for a living? If so I am Envy