And those being left behind comforting one another by saying there is no other choice, they could not possibly have done something about it

And the dungeon is very dark and horrible

And me and this rat, we have one another, but we could have climbed out of the dungeon with the help of the others

I think this scene is one of the reasons I haven't gotten very far past the first two episodes because I keep going back and watching some parts over and over

Arthur, bear, ear, earth, hearing, hearth, heart, art 🐻 💜 🌍

Yes this is an interesting way to look at it
the way I look at it, it is also that the old man is very fixed in his belief that he can not leave, he is invited to leave with a brisk 'are you coming or what' and he says he cant
sometimes the invitation to leave isnt nice, and the unknown is big and scary

Sometimes the invitation to leave isn't nice and the unknown is big and scary

Gosh yes this.

and sometimes even when the invitation to leave is not nice or kindly put, even if the unknown is big and scary, and all you seem to have known is a dark horrible hole, then you still need to seize the opportunity of escape when it presents itself
my way out of bad situations certainly wasnt nice, so far....

I also keep feeling that the matter of the old man's escape from the dungeon is treated in a sort of light hearted or semi-light-hearted way and I stop at that each time, partly because it feels such an inappropriate subject for comedy at this time but also partly because the inappropriateness of it seems to highlight it in a way that actually feels like it honors it in a way that I am really appreciating and so I'm just dwelling on these early parts of the show, recognizing a lot about what they are doing for me

To seize the opportunity of escape when it presents itself

To seize the opportunity of freedom when it presents itself

As in one of the times I left, I was abducted by the government to be locked away somewhere, I escaped to find my house (the house I had badly suffered in too) to be locked and barred.
And then I was free. I hid somewhere for a while, then traveled out of the country

Blessings to increasing experiences of increasing freedoms and liberatory relief

was that nice? hell no. was it an escape? hell yes, a houdini like escape even

Better than Houdini

I'd say in a sense, it even IS nice to turn evil on its head, to take it and laugh and turn evil around back into live

Robin of Sherwood Podcast introduction episode Robin Hood Michael Praed Jason Connery Judi Trott Television nostalgia

8/25/20

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In this podcast we discuss the classic 1980s TV series Robin of Sherwood, starring Michael Praed, Judi Trott, Ray Winstone and Jason Connery.
In this episode we talk about the television landscape of 1984, why we love Robin of Sherwood, what our favourite characters and moments are, the benefits or otherwise of finding people by simply waiting up a tree, elusive merchandise and the lengths taken to acquire it and whether Richard O'Brien was aware that he was being filmed.

Part of me has wanted to live in a forest since seeing Robin of Sherwood, and even more when I saw a documentary of an English woman and a Healer from a Indigenous Amazon people, had fallen in love and she moved to a part of the Amazon in the corner of what is now named Peru, next to what is now named Ecuador.