What are you watching on TV right now?

Mottie said:
If an opposing armies didn’t come within range of each other’s archers, what was the point of archers?
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Ah yes, the strategic importance & the bravery of being out of range.

On on on cried the leaders at the back.
 
Dork Lard said:
Ah yes, the strategic importance & the bravery of being out of range.

On on on cried the leaders at the back.
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I don't get what point you are making. If armies were not in range of the archers, what’s the point of archers? Surely at some point in one of those battles, the armies must have been in range of each other’s archers unless they were just going to keep apart and hurl abuse at each other?
 
Mottie said:
I don't get what point you are making. If armies were not in range of the archers, what’s the point of archers?
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Longbow : A Social & Military History by Robert Hardy (Siegfried Farnon). Buy it, it will always be worth what you paid for it & it really is a very interesting book with lots of pikturez . . . .

Or, a briefest of explanations of medieval tactics (sorry, no piccyz) : www.britannica.com/topic/tactics/Bowmen-and-pikemen
 
OddsBodkin said:
I'm confused; did you get to the end of season four, part one without going on to watch part two?
They split season four into two halves, with the final 7 episodes airing on Netflix from the end of April.
Explainer: no spoilers. There is no season 5.
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Yeah, we watched pt 2 season 4. Nothing really happened to Marty. Unlike Ruth!
 
Mottie said:
Yeah, we watched pt 2 season 4. Nothing really happened to Marty. Unlike Ruth!
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It was foreshadowed in the way she saw Wyatt her family around the trailer once again, and her comment 'poor people don't make speeches' as she left the casino for the final time. A piece of social commentary by the scriptwriters.
Her revenge for the murder of Wyatt was always going to blow back on her - but that's the way it's done in the Ozarks!
Beautiful country. But take care how y'all walk in the woods now, y'hear!
 
I went to bed a little early last night, to watch a bit of TV in bed, then promptly dozed off - which is fatal for me. I woke at 1:30, turned it off, then couldn't get back to sleep. I turned it back on couldn't find anything live to take my interest, so I looked at streaming and found a series called 'Reggie Perrin' on Freevee - not the original version a new version with Martin clunes.
 
Watching the verdict in the Johnny Depp libel trial.
He has won 15million in damages against Amber Heard.
The jury found she lied through her teeth.
 
I’ve seen a few bits on the news where each have them been on the stand. Both seemed believable but then again, they are both actors!
 
Forty years ago today the Falklands War ended and it was sobering to hear from men who fought in that conflict recall their experiences in sunday nights documentary. I watched it last night and was impressed with how honest they were. A mixture of bravery and incompetence seemed to be the way it was fought. Leaving the troops aboard Sir Galahad was a tragic oversight by commanders and survivors are still traumatised but there was still time for moments of glory in the finest tradition of the British Army, like the bayonet charge by Scots Guards in the battle for Tumbledown which i think is the last occasion men fixed bayonets and charged fixed positions, taking them in hand-to-hand fighting that left no room for mercy.
The last word went to the squaddie who was on point checking prisoners bags before they boarded a ship to return them home and he stopped one guy who opened his bag to reveal a body. An officer who spoke English told him the body was his dead brother who he'd promised his mother to return, should either one of them be killed.
A thoughtful programme that brought closure for some, pride for others, and a reminder that British Forces still maintains the security of the Commonwealth, no matter how small your country.
 
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