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Horses of Merlin Picspam!!!
and some horse-related geekiness from me

Some beautiful jousting greys. The horse on the lower right is an Andalusian type, while the dapple grey to its left appears to be a draft cross of some kind. 

This is "Arthur" jousting (hooray for stunt doubles!). I don't think this is Torrento, either, but with action shots it is hard to tell.






Two pics of this horse because I love it's stirrup-shaped brand.





Horses at night preparing to do battle with the dragon. They don't seem too concerned.





On the way to...somewhere, Morgana & retinue are accosted by bandits. The attack begins in the second frame, as you can see the horses begin to "startle". They appear to be spooking but they're actually responding to their rider's cues! As you can see from the two lead horses their postures have changed and ears have shifted back, usually meaning they're paying close attention to their rider.

 

I love Morgause's horse, a beautiful probably-Andalusian grey. Someone told me that Arthur's horse in this scene is, in fact, Torrento, so there you go. Someone needs to fix his mane, though...it's on the "wrong" side (a horse's mane should fall to the right), although maybe that's just an American thing? Maybe someone can fill me in.

 

Unicorns are horsey creatures so I'm including it. I love the horse who plays one here. Unicorns are often played by Andalusians  (as I think is the case on Merlin) as they have the required "majestic" look. I have to say, I stared at that first shot for a long time, because as a former owner of a grey horse I have to admire just how white the horse is. That's no easy feat!





On the left, Merlin prepares to ride out to the Isle of the Blessed on his trusty bay. On the right, we're on the same quest with a different horse. Hmm, maybe he stopped to change horses? :P






Morgana rides out to meet Alvarr, with Merlin following. I think it's interesting how Morgana and Arthur both (I think) ride with two hands (English style) on the reins, while Merlin uses one (Western style). I wonder if it is because Merlin is from the "country"? Don't know.





I love Merlin's horse in the left frame..it's hard to see but he (she?) has a very nice profile. Merlin's horse seems to change quite a bit! In the second shot he is leading a cob-like dark bay. It seems they try to make sure Arthur is always on his bay (it's not always the same horse, but they all look very similar) while Merlin's changes, possibly to infer that he rides whatever horse is available?




And that's all I've got. I hope you enjoyed the horsey-picspam and tolerated my horse geekiness. Thanks!

Screencaps by Emma-Jane, found here

 

Comments

[blameitonmerlin.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, right? I went to Montana for field camp and was SO HAPPY to finally SEE sequences and whatnot without having to use my imagination or trek through underbrush. Plus, LIMESTONE. Most of the limestone here is eroded like woah, and while we do get to see some structures we mostly have the US Highway system to thank for that (yay dynamite!);so many of my fieldtrips were to questionable highwayside locales.

My Petrology teacher tried to recruit me but I was already doing research on sea-level rise at that point and was just starting to nail down the art of foraminifera identification. I wasn't about to give that up to perfect my thin section analysis technique :)

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

LIIIIMESTONE IT IS MY SECRET GEOLOGICAL LOVERRRR <3 <3 <3

Oh roadcuts are SO much fun. In a couple of weeks I get to help take eighty-odd second-year students up to Wanganui, force them to wear sexy sexy hi-visibility vests and line them up along a stretch of highway with hairpin bends at either end and then say 'here is your Jacob's staff, here is your Abny level, you will eat with it, you will sleep with it, now please to measure the true thicknesses of these dipping units ...' Admittedly our highways are only two lanes, but oh well (we have only two places in the entire country with highways upwards of two lanes, fun fact!)

FORAMS! I did radiolaria for my honours - what forams are you looking at? *bounces* I had to give up on micropal because my eyes and glasses were getting ruined by microscopes and also because molluscs are seductive, but I still love them like fire ...

[blameitonmerlin.livejournal.com]

Limestone is awesome. We had little plastic vials of low-molar HCL that we used to test for limestone. Leading to the not-very-creative catchphrase of "Time to drop acid!".

Haha oh I wore those visibility vests many times. So fashionable! But after learning how cool roadcuts can be I got a bad habit of trying to look at them all the time...which, when driving up in the White Mountains is every 5 seconds or so...maybe not such a good idea. So I let other people drive and yell at them to pull over when I see some cool stuff :)

My forams were mostly benthics; the ones I was looked at for my honors thesis were shallow water guys, but we had to ID some deep sea benthics for my marine geo class and a few other small projects. I agree...they are hard on the eyes and glasses. I spent a few weeks once doing grain-size counts for a paleodepth analysis. I thought I was going to go cross-eyed!

[agenttrojie.livejournal.com]

Famous quote from our structural geo lecturer 'Now guys, I want to see you dropping acid at every outcrop!'

Heheh, I was doing some fieldwork with one of my officemates once out in the Wairarapa and we BOTH had our heads out the window looking for a specific horizon, driving along chanting at each other 'mudstone, mudstone, gravels, mudstone, gravels, SHELLBED STOP STOP!' and we nearly came off on the gravel roads a few times ..

Ooh, shallow benthics. I love benthics, they come in the coolest shapes! We do a foram palaeoecology lab for our second years and it has both planktics (mostly globigerinids) and benthics, and I get to enthuse about my deep and abiding love of uvigerinids, it's great :D