We don't know how much is scripted. On such shows they tend to have a basic script to guide them. Not taking anything away from him. I just wanted to ensure the writer gets credit too (if they deserve it) as people usually never know their name
I'm amazed at the wonderful production values of this series, and Tony adds so much. He's so keen and enthusastic that the viewer shares in his hard/distasteful/down right horrible adventures- even when he's terrified! Great series, research quite good, and production impecabble, and it gives a lot of new facts whilst being terrificably entertaining.
Whipping boy. That is particularly rotten. Any royal brat could just be as naughty as s/he pleased, without getting punished. Because the poor innocent kid would get it instead. *Scowl*
If I understand the theory of how it was to be done properly, the whipping boy was another Noble's child who was companion to the Prince. Taught alongside, possible friend & companion, who suffered for the Prince's failings. Supposed to be an object lesson for future life as King, where faults & bad decisions affected other Nobles & the subjects. Hard to maintain loyalty & friendship if screw ups are constantly causing punishment to be applied.
Utterly twisted and unjust in any case. Somehow I doubt the prince would understand all of that, let alone care. Horrid lot for the noble kid who took the punishment for not only his own mess-ups, but for some pampered brat who got away with everything because he was highest in the pecking order.
What's that got to do with it? I'm not talking about the afterlife and who gets ST. before their name. Spoiled brat A. does something wrong. Child B. is the one who gets punished for it. So yes, Brat A. gets away with what he did, completely... Until he dies, of course, but he probably only experiences trouble for his actions later on when he is king, and then people try to kill him for whatever reason.
That's only what the king believed, and it's bullshit. Authority from god, my foot. It was the king's authority. Not God's. He thought he was a god, or the nearest thing to God, and that was utter self-serving rubbish.
Coming closer there. It may be 'unfair' to the Whipping Boy, but the point is to train the future King to think first of how his actions might affect others. Minor punishments of children (fair or not) being less important than having a King who doesn't worry about how his actions affect his subjects - to the point they'd rather do away with him. Pointing out the unfairness, in a way that won't be forgotten, is the very point of the exercise. It's easier to take a punishment yourself than see it applied to a companion. Unfair for subjects to be hurt by the faults of their King, but it's the reality the King has to face up to & learn to avoid whenever possible. True psychopaths who don't care how their actions affect others may end up weeded out young, by unfortunate 'accident'.
Robinson: "You're so smart!" Falcon: "Yeah, I totally know how swinging a string works." 🙄 ... Falcon: "Don't touch my rabbit, freak!" 😠 I'm guessing those birds aren't fans of his.
How on earth did the Romans figure out that smashing up those shellfish, boiling them, and leaving them to ferment for ten days, would create purple if you dip fabric in the liquid and expose to air! Incredible
At the beginning the jousting expert states that Henry VIII was not injured by the accident. In fact, evidence suggests that it was the beginning of a series of concussions leading to traumatic brain injury (of the sort that plagues modern football players and others) that led to his later erratic and sometimes violent behavior. news.yale.edu/2016/02/02/did-henry-viii-suffer-same-brain-injury-some-nfl-players
True, that makes things much harder for a novice rider like Tony is. It's better for the horse though. Mind you, his fall, while comical, could've been much worse,
The fact that many of these jobs disappeared due in large part to mechanization from the industrial revolution. Where machines can do many of these jobs, or there is devises to now do this or synthetics to take the place. Plus chemistry that changed having to use huge amounts of shell fish or other things.
Not one of the jobs I've done in this one... except being of Royal blood, Swedish not English... but, as we haven't been in Sweden since 1700, I don't think being an Earl counts for much these days. Amendment... I've done removals.. moving folks goods from old house to new, everyday different people, not one family being the only real difference.
He hits it now and again whenever he gets into jobs of the late industrial age. It was quite a change-over period, because there was increasing modern sanitation, fewer domestic workers and farm labourers, more global trade, and the political upheaval that led to the first world war. It was a period of great immigration from Europe as well as England.
Can I just point out that wearing a sallet and bevor for jousting is a really, really stupid idea. You're basically being asked to be stabbed in the face. The other guy wearing the armet/close helm has the right idea, though usually jousting was done with specialised jousting armour, that was incredibly rigid and protective - it was basically sports equipment. More often than not the jouster had to be bolted into the armour. Also, the aim wasn't to "knock your opponent to the ground", it was to break your lance on them, scoring points based on where you hit them when the lance broke.
Try doing on a motorcycle just wearing a leather jacket and a open face helmet... seen that done a few times at rallies.... Well it seems a very good idea after a gallon or two of real ale!
The "aim" of jousting was actually to capture your aponent. You'd knock them off then drag them away, where they were then forced to surrender their armour and weaponry unless they pay you.
@@obscurazone No, where'd you even get that idea? The point was to shatter your lance against them, and you'd get points depending on where abouts you hit them when your lance broke, with the most points being awarded for breaking it on the tip of your opponents lance, though both competitors would recieve the same amount of points. Next was the helmet, then the shield, then anywhere else on the body. Dragging them off and making them pay you to keep their armour. That's ridiculous. 🤣
just the thought a bird is worth more than your life.. id be all bugger off king. you lazy sod. laughs.. yeah i would of lost my head if i lived back then im sure. but then if i was told my place and how the kings are above me from birth.. maybe i would think different. but i cant help to think the surfs behind the kings back talk some major smack.. :)
That bird refused to let go its kill after Tony waded through the stream to get at it.. Can you imagine having to fight a bird like that for their prize, knowing if you damaged the bird in anyway, it's you that'll get the axe? Literally.
God, why is the narrator like a 90 year old geriatric patient?? I've watched almost all of these episodes and he strugglers to do the easiest tasks. Example : he had to cross a stream, and he hobbles into the water like he has 2 broken hips and complains how HARD it is to wade through shallow water... And he fell out of a saddle because the horse was walking?? What is wrong with this guy??
Well then maybe *you* should re-do the series and get everything right and show the rest of the human race how to really work. Sheesh, what a whiner. I suggest you start with the Georgian period, working atop a ship. Then try the Stewart period, cleaning out a sheep to make violin strings. Then try being a legger in the urban jobs episode. Don't complain about someone else's performance until you can do it better and get some production company interested in you.
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I love how Tony always gives credit to the unknown, unnamed regular people in these documentaries. Bravo!
We don't know how much is scripted. On such shows they tend to have a basic script to guide them. Not taking anything away from him. I just wanted to ensure the writer gets credit too (if they deserve it) as people usually never know their name
@@DreamBelief tony is the writer, twit.
@ 30:00 when Tony falls off the horse, the horse goes and checks on him like "you ok?"
A montage of Tony choking on various fumes shown in this show would be entertaining.
I just realized that Tony is working with Ruth form the Tudor, Monastery, Victorian, Edwardian, and Wartime Farm series! She's lovely!
I'm amazed at the wonderful production values of this series, and Tony adds so much. He's so keen and enthusastic that the viewer shares in his hard/distasteful/down right horrible adventures- even when he's terrified!
Great series, research quite good, and production impecabble, and it gives a lot of new facts whilst being terrificably entertaining.
And he always tastes stuff even when he knows it's going to be awful. He's amazing.
That falcon coming to back to defend it's kill when Tony waded through the river 😂
RUTH!!! This makes me so happy! :)
24:15 is the best bit! Love Tony Robinson!
A cunning plan executed skillfuly and quietly by Baldrick
That brown falcon is so cute. Such a beautiful animal. :)
Heel erg bedankt, Reijer!
Whipping boy. That is particularly rotten. Any royal brat could just be as naughty as s/he pleased, without getting punished. Because the poor innocent kid would get it instead. *Scowl*
If I understand the theory of how it was to be done properly, the whipping boy was another Noble's child who was companion to the Prince. Taught alongside, possible friend & companion, who suffered for the Prince's failings.
Supposed to be an object lesson for future life as King, where faults & bad decisions affected other Nobles & the subjects.
Hard to maintain loyalty & friendship if screw ups are constantly causing punishment to be applied.
Utterly twisted and unjust in any case. Somehow I doubt the prince would understand all of that, let alone care. Horrid lot for the noble kid who took the punishment for not only his own mess-ups, but for some pampered brat who got away with everything because he was highest in the pecking order.
What's that got to do with it? I'm not talking about the afterlife and who gets ST. before their name. Spoiled brat A. does something wrong. Child B. is the one who gets punished for it. So yes, Brat A. gets away with what he did, completely... Until he dies, of course, but he probably only experiences trouble for his actions later on when he is king, and then people try to kill him for whatever reason.
That's only what the king believed, and it's bullshit. Authority from god, my foot. It was the king's authority. Not God's. He thought he was a god, or the nearest thing to God, and that was utter self-serving rubbish.
Coming closer there. It may be 'unfair' to the Whipping Boy, but the point is to train the future King to think first of how his actions might affect others. Minor punishments of children (fair or not) being less important than having a King who doesn't worry about how his actions affect his subjects - to the point they'd rather do away with him.
Pointing out the unfairness, in a way that won't be forgotten, is the very point of the exercise. It's easier to take a punishment yourself than see it applied to a companion.
Unfair for subjects to be hurt by the faults of their King, but it's the reality the King has to face up to & learn to avoid whenever possible.
True psychopaths who don't care how their actions affect others may end up weeded out young, by unfortunate 'accident'.
Robinson: "You're so smart!"
Falcon: "Yeah, I totally know how swinging a string works." 🙄
...
Falcon: "Don't touch my rabbit, freak!" 😠
I'm guessing those birds aren't fans of his.
Birds see him as an accessory to speckled Jim's murder, that's why.
Tony, so brave to taste that fermented mollusk soup!
How on earth did the Romans figure out that smashing up those shellfish, boiling them, and leaving them to ferment for ten days, would create purple if you dip fabric in the liquid and expose to air! Incredible
Best one yet 😉
It’s just so amazing the `tricks` that got us here to the 21st centuary! Thank you... really kind of you! 😊
poor Baldrick.
At the beginning the jousting expert states that Henry VIII was not injured by the accident. In fact, evidence suggests that it was the beginning of a series of concussions leading to traumatic brain injury (of the sort that plagues modern football players and others) that led to his later erratic and sometimes violent behavior.
news.yale.edu/2016/02/02/did-henry-viii-suffer-same-brain-injury-some-nfl-players
I had no idea about that, that's just blow my mind now! Makes a lot of sense!
I want to know how he fit his fat arse into a suit of armour. Musr have been a very round looking suit. Feel sorry for his horse.
NFL... ah I sussed it... American Rugby!
Paul M- he wasnt always over weight. when he was a young man he was known to be quite good looking and fit.
Gallifreyan Refugee ah he pulled. Marlon Brando!
It's Ruth!!
Your pic is adorable! ^-^
I loved the bit with the birds! They are so smart and will do anything to get their pound of flesh ... poor old Tony :D
That part really freaks me out.
What weirds me out about the falconer's job is the punishment for a lost bird. *Shuddr* ugh!
... a degree of reverance to the royals here methinks. No chamberpots but Ruth Goodmans' demo of laundry gave a glimpse ...
25:19 Tony's riding without a bit. Good.
+egparis18 he was having trouble keeping his hat on because they made him ride with a hard hat under
True, that makes things much harder for a novice rider like Tony is. It's better for the horse though.
Mind you, his fall, while comical, could've been much worse,
T. H. White wrote _The Goshawk_, about his incredibly arduous struggle to tame a wild hawk. He used the Biblical simile of wrestling with an angel.
The fact that many of these jobs disappeared due in large part to mechanization from the industrial revolution. Where machines can do many of these jobs, or there is devises to now do this or synthetics to take the place. Plus chemistry that changed having to use huge amounts of shell fish or other things.
Can you imagine how much that poor guy who almost killed henry was pissing himself? Lol
Why is the Royal Post horse two toned?
The German chemistry helped change the clothe dying priocess.
Armour gave u a chance to survive close edged weapons combat.
The real coats of mail were riveted.
@42:30 did he say "get the yack and die."? That sounds like an awful way to go!
To get the actual dye takes about ten days fermentation.
The cost of making armour huge.
"Wood ya lyke two haav a go!? Wood you? (^_^)
Not one of the jobs I've done in this one... except being of Royal blood, Swedish not English... but, as we haven't been in Sweden since 1700, I don't think being an Earl counts for much these days. Amendment... I've done removals.. moving folks goods from old house to new, everyday different people, not one family being the only real difference.
So Tonyn has gone from makimg green, to making purple!
1 million£ in todays money for fireworks...and they say people were poor those days! (ironi) The bare thought makes me sick
How did those Klingons make their batleths that's what I want to know.
@16:14 LoL
Purple cost a lot in ancient times.
Why is that Tony never went into the Edwardian period with this series?
35 minutes in they're talking about the period of Edward VII.
He hits it now and again whenever he gets into jobs of the late industrial age. It was quite a change-over period, because there was increasing modern sanitation, fewer domestic workers and farm labourers, more global trade, and the political upheaval that led to the first world war. It was a period of great immigration from Europe as well as England.
Can I just point out that wearing a sallet and bevor for jousting is a really, really stupid idea.
You're basically being asked to be stabbed in the face. The other guy wearing the armet/close helm has the right idea, though usually jousting was done with specialised jousting armour, that was incredibly rigid and protective - it was basically sports equipment. More often than not the jouster had to be bolted into the armour.
Also, the aim wasn't to "knock your opponent to the ground", it was to break your lance on them, scoring points based on where you hit them when the lance broke.
Try doing on a motorcycle just wearing a leather jacket and a open face helmet... seen that done a few times at rallies.... Well it seems a very good idea after a gallon or two of real ale!
The "aim" of jousting was actually to capture your aponent. You'd knock them off then drag them away, where they were then forced to surrender their armour and weaponry unless they pay you.
@@obscurazone No, where'd you even get that idea?
The point was to shatter your lance against them, and you'd get points depending on where abouts you hit them when your lance broke, with the most points being awarded for breaking it on the tip of your opponents lance, though both competitors would recieve the same amount of points. Next was the helmet, then the shield, then anywhere else on the body.
Dragging them off and making them pay you to keep their armour. That's ridiculous. 🤣
The snivelling little toad !
just the thought a bird is worth more than your life.. id be all bugger off king. you lazy sod. laughs.. yeah i would of lost my head if i lived back then im sure. but then if i was told my place and how the kings are above me from birth.. maybe i would think different. but i cant help to think the surfs behind the kings back talk some major smack.. :)
That bird refused to let go its kill after Tony waded through the stream to get at it.. Can you imagine having to fight a bird like that for their prize, knowing if you damaged the bird in anyway, it's you that'll get the axe? Literally.
God, why is the narrator like a 90 year old geriatric patient?? I've watched almost all of these episodes and he strugglers to do the easiest tasks. Example : he had to cross a stream, and he hobbles into the water like he has 2 broken hips and complains how HARD it is to wade through shallow water...
And he fell out of a saddle because the horse was walking?? What is wrong with this guy??
Well then maybe *you* should re-do the series and get everything right and show the rest of the human race how to really work. Sheesh, what a whiner. I suggest you start with the Georgian period, working atop a ship. Then try the Stewart period, cleaning out a sheep to make violin strings. Then try being a legger in the urban jobs episode. Don't complain about someone else's performance until you can do it better and get some production company interested in you.