Black Hat Brigade: Episode 9
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wingedbeastSetting: Mid-evil tavern. Darkly lit and moderately populated. The camera focuses on a tray of four pint-cups as it is carried to a table in a shadowy corner.
Susan Pevensie wears a long black dress as well as a black bodice over white blouse. Her bow is slung over shoulder and her quiver is shifted to the side. As per her standard, she wears a wide-brimmed black hat.
Susan: I am given to understand that taverns, in this time, were not often patronized by women.
The woman opposite Susan wears a red dress with green trim. Her black hair, while smooth and shining, has a wild stance about her. Her eyes match with a look of wild intellect.
The woman: I am Morgana Le Fay
Susan: A touch expository, don't you think?
Morgana: Yes, yes, you've hung your lantern. As I was saying, I am Morgana Le Fay, the representative, in Arthurian Legend, of uncontrolled womanhood and frightening pagan powers.
Morgana: Besides, if we were bound by accuracy to the times, we would have less castles and more wooden fortresses. And, moats would be dry and filled with spikes, rather than water.
Bufford "Mad Dog" Tannen sets down the tray.
Bufford: I thought that the Arthur story was about stuff like "might for right, not might makes right" that kind of thing.
Morgana: There is that, but it's in combination. La Mort D'Arthur explicitly identifies King Arthur as the first Christian king of England. It didn't change anything of the politics, even to the point of having previous kings be, well, kings. But, it was about matching virtue to "good" Christian patriarchy and frightening evils to "evil" pagan uncontrolled women.
Morgana: That is why I am named Morganna of the Fair Folk, a reference to pagan beliefs.
Bufford's mouth hangs open and his brow furroughs for a moment:... Yer gonna have to give me some time to try to understand all that.
Mordred chuckles and reaches for his pint: You're not alone. I feel like that and she raised me.
Susan: Not that I don't enjoy your company or literary analysis, but...
Morgana: Post-industrial characters so rarely want to take the time and enjoy conversation.
Mordred: Word of the Black Hat Brigade has made it to several heroes. King Arthur now holds court to discuss what to do about the threat.
Susan: In a reasonable world, they wouldn't see a threat.
Bufford's eyes narrow at nothing.: But, they do. Of course they do.
Morgana: Spoken like someone who knows how they think.
Bufford: It's how I thought in my movie. It weren't even thought. It were power. Either I have it all or I got none of it.
Susan: It seems there's one thing that must be at least tried.
Mordred: Do you think it will accomplish anything?
Bufford: Hell no.
Bufford quickly chugs down his pint of ale: But we gotta do it, don't we?
Susan: Quite.
Susan Pevensie wears a long black dress as well as a black bodice over white blouse. Her bow is slung over shoulder and her quiver is shifted to the side. As per her standard, she wears a wide-brimmed black hat.
Susan: I am given to understand that taverns, in this time, were not often patronized by women.
The woman opposite Susan wears a red dress with green trim. Her black hair, while smooth and shining, has a wild stance about her. Her eyes match with a look of wild intellect.
The woman: I am Morgana Le Fay
Susan: A touch expository, don't you think?
Morgana: Yes, yes, you've hung your lantern. As I was saying, I am Morgana Le Fay, the representative, in Arthurian Legend, of uncontrolled womanhood and frightening pagan powers.
Morgana: Besides, if we were bound by accuracy to the times, we would have less castles and more wooden fortresses. And, moats would be dry and filled with spikes, rather than water.
Bufford "Mad Dog" Tannen sets down the tray.
Bufford: I thought that the Arthur story was about stuff like "might for right, not might makes right" that kind of thing.
Morgana: There is that, but it's in combination. La Mort D'Arthur explicitly identifies King Arthur as the first Christian king of England. It didn't change anything of the politics, even to the point of having previous kings be, well, kings. But, it was about matching virtue to "good" Christian patriarchy and frightening evils to "evil" pagan uncontrolled women.
Morgana: That is why I am named Morganna of the Fair Folk, a reference to pagan beliefs.
Bufford's mouth hangs open and his brow furroughs for a moment:... Yer gonna have to give me some time to try to understand all that.
Mordred chuckles and reaches for his pint: You're not alone. I feel like that and she raised me.
Susan: Not that I don't enjoy your company or literary analysis, but...
Morgana: Post-industrial characters so rarely want to take the time and enjoy conversation.
Mordred: Word of the Black Hat Brigade has made it to several heroes. King Arthur now holds court to discuss what to do about the threat.
Susan: In a reasonable world, they wouldn't see a threat.
Bufford's eyes narrow at nothing.: But, they do. Of course they do.
Morgana: Spoken like someone who knows how they think.
Bufford: It's how I thought in my movie. It weren't even thought. It were power. Either I have it all or I got none of it.
Susan: It seems there's one thing that must be at least tried.
Mordred: Do you think it will accomplish anything?
Bufford: Hell no.
Bufford quickly chugs down his pint of ale: But we gotta do it, don't we?
Susan: Quite.
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Date: 2015-07-31 02:10 pm (UTC)Now this is getting really interesting!
I love your scene-by-scene posts.
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Date: 2015-07-31 04:25 pm (UTC)BTW, ideas on how this can go will be well appreciated.
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Date: 2015-07-31 04:32 pm (UTC)I'd like to see the Black Hats interacting with their heroic counterparts - the one with Scar trouncing Simba in conversation was terribly entertaining.
Or, I'd like to see more of their actual goals - if Susan's not interested in taking over the Pride Lands but Scar still is, frex, how do they handle that? Their many motivations will give them room to bounce off each other, and once they have a rough plan hammered out, their interactions with the White Hats may be far different than originally scripted.
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Date: 2015-07-31 04:43 pm (UTC)In cases of legends, like King Arthur or Robin Hood, where there are multiple iterations and multiple imaginings, there can be reimaginings, to show characters in a better light. But, the legends are what they are.
So, Scar's not going to take over the Pride Lands in his movie he was killed and that's it. That said, you do give me ideas for other things they could want in future stories.
And, there's going to be some Black Hat/White Hat interaction in the next scene.
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Date: 2015-07-31 05:01 pm (UTC)Yay! I'll look forward to it.