To Vinland!

Well, Airport Security in Amsterdam seems to have decidedly sensitive metal detectors, what were set off by the buckles of my Kilt. and the number of KLM staff who complimented me on my skirt... Fortunately I restrained my instincts, and thus am sitting awaiting my third and final boarding call rather than being on my way to a canadian police station...

Flight itself was fine, they didn't manage to outright kill me with the meals, which is always useful...
and now to get onto something other than me...
In-Flight Movies...
The flight had an interesting method of doing them. each seat has a tiny screen in the back of it, and each person can select their own in-flight entertainment from a fairly wide library. And so, I shall review mine...

I watched two and a half films, an Episode of NCIS (Which we shall ignore) and listened to much Queen (Which we shall also ignore) coincidentally, our treatment of these is not because they are bad, but because their epic requires no description...

So, Films.
I started with Expendables...
I know many bad things have been heard of this film, however my response can best be summed up by the one scene where I almost bolted out of my seat bellowing EFF AY EEH BABY!
If one, like me, watches such films for gratuitous violence and 'splody, one will be pleased. if one is willing to appreciate a semblance of plot one will be even more pleased...
It seems to be a return to the classic days of action flicks... less concerned with accuracy than with looking entertaining... and the cast does a good job of taking it just seriously enough. and the black guy has what is effectively a boltgun. Oh, and did I mention the FAE?

The Next Film on my agenda was the latest incarnation of Robin Hood.
Let us start with the bad...
First off, their is no evidence the man Robin Hood ever actually existed... their was I believe a Robin of Locksley, but there is no record I have heard of of him being outlawed, let alone for theft from the rich to give to the poor...
Then, (Spoiler Alert from this point in...)
One cannot cross the English Channel in Oar-Driven Landing Craft in the 12th century. one would die... and so would ones army.
Also John did sign the Magna Carta, although it was effectively at Sword-Point...
Quibble Four, Sending Children, even outlawed semi-feral children mounted as cavalry against hardened men-at-arms is both morally reprehensible and akin to murder...

End of Quibbling
and now for the good points...
I saw no major cases of Innacurate clothing or buildings (Admittedly twas on a tiny screen, so they might have slipped through)
Second, The Earl Of Pembroke appeared
Third, there were a large number of axes...
including one that appeared to be Sympathy's head on a six foot shaft... I almost want one...
Fourth, One of Richards Sub-Justicars appeared
Fifth, Many of the minor nobles, the northern barons, who are mentioned are the actual ones who held the fiefs attributed to them at the time... and several of them did indeed spend some time outlawed by john...
Sixth... The future regent of England showed up
Seventh... Eleanor of Aquitane
Eight... and this is simply a repeat of numbers 2, 4, and 6... WILLIAM MARSHAL played a considerable role... they even had his heraldry right... Green and Yellow, With the Red Lion Rampant...
and he was portrayed as just as epic as he was...

Seriously, anyone who has studied that period of history will spend the film going I know him, and him, and him, and him, and her, and her, and him the whole way through... When Sir Marshal first appeared, I believe the operative word was Nerdgasm, as not one coherent word was uttered for the next five minutes...

The final half film was the start of Beauty and the Beast, which as it's epic should be understood by all shall also recieve no mention beyond this...