On Whining About Bad Televisual Representations of the Terror! With a Necessary Exclamation Mark!!~~

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I think it's my duty as an Angry Citizen(ess) to share my self-rightous outrage, and my favourite topic to share it is on All The More Or Less Bad And Terrible Representations of Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthon, etc. In Films And, Sometimes, Novels.

First of all, I analysed the photo I posted earlier further (I was about to leave when I did that post, so I didn't have time):

Apart from Couthon, whom we won't even speak about, what is wrong:



1. That guy as an emo haircut.
2. Why is that guy having a red sash? Is it PROTO-SOCIALIST Collot or Billaud? And why is Robespierre the only one standing out again with his tricolor sash? They all had tricolor sashes!
3. I suspect that guy is Carnot: because he is adopting a falsely military "yo" attitude with his sword and all, except he clearly has the type of haircut that would be popular during the Empire, or the Consulate, or whater: A LOT LATER THAN YEAR II. Idiots. Also, that person doesn't know where to put his cocarde. Really not.

Someone noted how Robespierre looked a lot more masculine (!) for once. And so does that "Saint-Just" apparently. BUT THEN, suddenly, I spotted something that seemed dead wrong with that horrid Saint-Just's hand: is that a ring there? A ruby ring? And, perhaps, two rings?

Oh, but wait a moment, Robespierre's got a ring too:



They're making a British statement on Prop 8. Oh yes they are.

And they fail at everything. Unless it's part of the plot and they have secret poison rings. Who knows.

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[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Yes, I considered that option, but you have to think TELEVISION!LOGIC: the Prieurs are completely pointless to any plot. Carnot would make sense, since they need the thermidorian legend of "the one who saved us all while the others were tyrants and/or anarchists", or perhaps they want to bash him on the Vendée and call him a nazi à la Pierre Chaunu. So they need Carnot. They obviously need the evil "triumvirate", otherwise nothing would sense, as we know. They'd need Collot and Billaud, to bring on evil leftist extremism and sans-culottism. Or Collot or Billaud. Or maybe they can just merge them together? We can never differentiate the two anyway, do we? Apart from this, I really doubt anybody cares about Hérault, Jeanbon Saint-André (who's always on missions anyway) and... unless it's Barère? But then, who's more useful: Lindet or Barère?

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

This is all true. :(