University of Armitage Studies

[MrsLucasNorth]

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 !

Enjoy!

Scrub that one, better one here

Can't you tell I'm bored?
Here is a sign from the rest rooms at Thames House

That reflection is just in the wrong place, Theresa! Good pic though - nice suit, exactly like DH's 'good' suit :)

I was looking for a much smaller person in there. Got the scale all wrong. Had to look 4 times. Think there may be very little to keep us going over the next twelve months,after a bit of a feast in the past couple of years. Very worrying

According to what I could Google, there is going to be a Hobbit part 2 out in 2013.
So looks as if he's going to be busy but not visible for long stretches. :(

Captain America is nearly finished, supposedly.

I suppose we'll just have to carry on writing our own virtual RA characters, until he comes back on the scene.

Yeah I heard TGH was bad from some people. Hasn't stopped some people from writing fanfic for it though I haven't read any of that. I do read the Sparkhouse fanfic though...

I believe the Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed in 1 hit and the post-production/marketing stuff was what spun it out over 3 years. Assuming they film Hobbit the same way over maybe 12 months it might not be so bad.

He'll have also had the best part of 6 months in between Spooks and The Hobbit so presumably will have been doing something (Strikeback ?) In the meantime.

I'll be putting series 7 & 8 of Spooks on my Christmas list just in case though!

Let us not forget that the absence of Mr Armitage from our telly screens will give us more opportunity to sit by the fireside, reading from the canon of English literature ...

Now, in Mr. Thornton's face the straight brows fell low over the clear, deep-set earnest eyes, which, without being unpleasantly sharp, seemed intent enough to penetrate into the very heart and core of what he was looking at. The lines in the face were few but firm, as if they were carved in marble, and lay principally about the lips, which were slightly compressed over a set of teeth so faultless and beautiful as to give the effect of sudden sunlight when the rare bright smile, coming in an instant and shining out of the eyes, changed the whole look from the severe and resolved expression of a man ready to do and dare everything, to the keen honest enjoyment of the moment, which is seldom shown so fearlessly and instantaneously except by children. Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.

However, to keep us going in the meantime...

jp1

jp2

There are a few extras on those DVDs too, Mrs LN. A bit about the Moscow shoot, etc. Every little helps.

Flowers, I could swear Mrs G timetravelled and caught an episode of Spooks or similar before writing that description. The part was made for him.

Horses for courses, Flowers...

Did we see the reasoning behind the decision to spirit our man away to Middle Earth? Worth it for the photo at least.

Yes, it's uncanny isn't it, Theresa?

There are some , but also some disturbing ones. For me, anyway.

Did you all see the dodgy hair I referred to in earlier modules?

Have you ladies checked out the

Sky One Strike Back Microsite

yet? Several behind the scenes videos and pictures and other goodies on there...

Was that photo in the plane thingy really him? With my eye sight it looked like Stephen fry!!

They say it is him, Fettle. He is playing an evil Nazi spy Shades of Herr Blick in his sinister black leather raincoat?

YT is like frozen treacle today,

at idea of Stephen Fry as Mr Armitage's body double, although I suppose they are of roughly similar height.

So the JP vid finally loaded. I can put up with war movies. Sad fact of life is sometimes you need the soldier boys. And if I had to pick one of them to point his great big gun at me, it's be this guy.

at the dodgy hair. Even so---

I hadn't noticed that his hair was dodgy. I clearly have low tonsorial standards.

I know we need the soldier boys. Someone in my past had done it all for real. It traumatised him and it traumatised me. So I wish John Porter well but have no wish to watch him in action.

Dodgy in just s few shots. otherwise yummy as usual. Someone close to me went down the same route, Flowers. In view of that I find the individual heroism aspect all the more inspiring. In movies though it's often done in a cheesy horrible way, I grant you.

I shuld be intrested to see how Mr Armitage deals with the character.

I find bravery and heroism inspiring beyond words - perhaps even more so now, with the benefit of so many years' hindsight and the perspective and understanding which (I hope) that brings. But I find watching it unbearable, because it brings back memories which I didn't know I still had.

I suppose I am more distanced from mine than you are,Flowers. Which makes it easier for me.

A shame you have to miss this. Hopefully there will be lots of other eminently watcheable goodies along for you soon, and meanwhile, Mr Thornton is more than beauteous enough to keep you satisfied, I am sure.

Hmm. Weirdly, this all happened aeons ago and I never give it any thought except when news footage or a dramatised version is shown on the telly and then long-dormant memories surface. John Porter is a bit too close for comfort.

Hey. I must be getting maudlin in my old age. Enough of this.

Let's go back over some old study materials. This one is about .