Originally Posted by
skauwt
I'm wondering the same thing, as I haven't seen this new one yet. Saw Centurion and, despite some improbable elements, I liked it; but I won't get to see The Eagle for a while because my girlfriend wouldn't want to (and we'll be spending this weekend together at her place), and a week from tomorrow I'm going to Borg up and get a structural upgrade on one hip. I'll only be in the shop for a couple of days, then home with my g/f at her place for a couple of weeks while the new components integrate with the original frame. But it will likely be a week or two before I can drive, so easily as much as 3 weeks after I'm Assimilated before I can see the flick.
Originally Posted by
Woodsheal
The image of the Picts as primitive, dark little Neolithic chaps is apparently derived from Robert E. Howard's "Conan" and "Bran mak Morn" stories!
That's the first portrayal of them as being that way that I can recall from my own adolescence. Loved Howard's stories though!!
As I mentioned earlier, the Romans seem to have thought of the Picts as "some sort of Germans" because they were big, fair-haired folk.
"It's all the same to me, war or peace,
I'm killed in the war or hung during peace."
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