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Post by nerdthenord on Oct 5, 2020 15:09:12 GMT
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Oct 5, 2020 16:09:37 GMT
For Hollywood armor its not awful. And the unarmored legs...wow.
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Post by Cos on Oct 5, 2020 16:29:10 GMT
For Hollywood armor its not awful. And the unarmored legs...wow. Have you ever tried to pirouette in cuisses? Haha it's pretty silly.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2020 16:33:31 GMT
My rational brain thinks this is pretty bad, but my homosexual brain is very intrigued, to say the least. Cavill is quite the specimen.
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Post by strigoil on Oct 5, 2020 18:17:03 GMT
As long as the show stays good like season 1.
As for the armor? I am disgusted, and that is all I am going to bother saying about it.
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Oct 5, 2020 20:22:16 GMT
For Hollywood armor its not awful. And the unarmored legs...wow. Have you ever tried to pirouette in cuisses? Haha it's pretty silly. Yes! Full plate ballet was something we tried just to give laughs. And wow, it WAS funny...
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Post by Jordan Williams on Oct 5, 2020 22:18:03 GMT
My rational brain thinks this is pretty bad, but my homosexual brain is very intrigued, to say the least. Cavill is quite the specimen. But he looks so uncomfy, like his head is a toothpaste cap ready to crack lol Maybe it's his expression
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Post by RufusScorpius on Oct 5, 2020 23:35:15 GMT
At least it's better than the bondage armor that Achilles wore in "Troy".
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 0:52:37 GMT
My rational brain thinks this is pretty bad, but my homosexual brain is very intrigued, to say the least. Cavill is quite the specimen. But he looks so uncomfy, like his head is a toothpaste cap ready to crack lol Maybe it's his expression What expression? I think he's beautiful, but has the emotional range of a spoon. Fortunately, that's the character.
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Post by LeMal on Oct 6, 2020 2:25:19 GMT
We have most of a breastplate and we have pauldrons. Better than the "I'll cover non-essential body parts and leave essential ones bare" so common in fantasy.
Is the beef that it's leather? When it comes to Hollywood, any time I see leather shaped in such a way that it could simply be a fashion where it's ENCASING steel I just go with that interpretation and am pretty happy.
(In fact that would've been a good idea historically, done right, for rust protection and/or decorative possibilities, even if it wasn't commonly used as far as we know.)
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Post by strigoil on Oct 6, 2020 2:48:17 GMT
We have most of a breastplate and we have pauldrons. Better than the "I'll cover non-essential body parts and leave essential ones bare" so common in fantasy. Is the beef that it's leather? When it comes to Hollywood, any time I see leather shaped in such a way that it could simply be a fashion where it's ENCASING steel I just go with that interpretation and am pretty happy. (In fact that would've been a good idea historically, done right, for rust protection and/or decorative possibilities, even if it wasn't commonly used as far as we know.) It actually leaves out plenty of vital areas, groin, under the arms, neck. I'm gonna forgive the head because Geralt never wore a helmet anyway. Leather I have no issue with as that is correct to lore, the shape, structure and studs I have issues with, it looks like cheap and tacky LARP armor and it wouldn't take that much work to make it look better and more functional aesthetically.
Function wise to be good it would have to be cuir bouilli, boiled leather..With the way it is made here he would have little to no flexibility to bend his torso up and down or side to side. Geralt doesn't use plate armor so this next part is redundant for this costume but we we did see both cloth and leather covered plate armor, Brigandines famously but often full plate cuirasses were covered in cloth and even studded to look like a brigandine even when it wasn't, as they were seen as fashionable at some point.
Those shoulder pads would offer some productions to strikes coming top down but have way too big gaps inbetween them and just look bad.
And whats up with the belt? First of all belt loops are studded to the cuirass which is ugly enough, but then a belt through it? This serves no function, it holds nothing in place except for keeping the potion belt on his legs from falling down, which they could just have studded onto the cuirass instead.
Also, potion belt on his legs? Really? With all the footwork fencing requires and how easy it is to slam your leg into something or fall over, entirely impractical.
The armor is a mess aesthetically and functionally and looks like cheap $300 LARP armor, literally. The costume department did horrible on S1 armors and they seem to be doing no better job this season, weird since they have hired such competent people like Tod and Josef to work on weapons and scabbards.
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Post by LeMal on Oct 6, 2020 5:12:13 GMT
[/quote]It actually leaves out plenty of vital areas, groin, under the arms, neck. [/div][/quote]
Yup. Exactly as any of those places might be left out in historical examples. Plenty of shirts of mail--IF someone could be lucky enough to have any armor at all rather than just using a shield--being sleeveless and/or with no neck protection and/or not covering the groin. Breastplates alone. Breastplates without backplates. Etc etc etc.
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Post by stormmaster on Oct 6, 2020 11:52:09 GMT
It looks ok to me, if i can handle the scrotum armor i can handle this, it is fantasy afterall
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Post by Cos on Oct 6, 2020 12:06:20 GMT
But he looks so uncomfy, like his head is a toothpaste cap ready to crack lol Maybe it's his expression What expression? I think he's beautiful, but has the emotional range of a spoon. Fortunately, that's the character. The funny thing is that he is actually a capable actor! In his early roles, like the Count of Monte Cristo he was good, as well as in the man from U.N.C.L.E. I think he's just fallen into a comfortable routine of stoic roles. Despite his fame he's a working actor, its just a job to him.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 13:37:51 GMT
What expression? I think he's beautiful, but has the emotional range of a spoon. Fortunately, that's the character. The funny thing is that he is actually a capable actor! In his early roles, like the Count of Monte Cristo he was good, as well as in the man from U.N.C.L.E. I think he's just fallen into a comfortable routine of stoic roles. Despite his fame he's a working actor, its just a job to him. I quite enjoyed him in Mission Impossible as well. He played a marvelous scumbag. I agree that he does appear to have range, but his concurrent roles have all been characters with little emotional range to them. Perhaps he has fallen into a pattern of choosing emotionless beefcake roles.
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Post by RufusScorpius on Oct 6, 2020 14:23:16 GMT
Sure the armor has huge gaps and doesn't cover vital areas. So what? In fantasy fighting, your opponent will ALWAYS hit the armor or your weapon and never go for any openings. Remember, armor, even leather armor, is also a powerful magnet that attracts sharp objects. Any weapon aimed at you will 100% hit whatever armor you have every time. Besides, armor isn't sword or arrow proof if it's worn by a henchman, in those cases, it provides less protection than a cotton t-shirt- so you might as well look good for your death scene.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Oct 6, 2020 16:53:55 GMT
We have most of a breastplate and we have pauldrons. Better than the "I'll cover non-essential body parts and leave essential ones bare" so common in fantasy. Is the beef that it's leather? When it comes to Hollywood, any time I see leather shaped in such a way that it could simply be a fashion where it's ENCASING steel I just go with that interpretation and am pretty happy. (In fact that would've been a good idea historically, done right, for rust protection and/or decorative possibilities, even if it wasn't commonly used as far as we know.) It got used for that with swords, and it just ends up causing rust and corroding steel really badly.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Oct 6, 2020 16:56:21 GMT
But he looks so uncomfy, like his head is a toothpaste cap ready to crack lol Maybe it's his expression What expression? I think he's beautiful, but has the emotional range of a spoon. Fortunately, that's the character. It reminds me of the face I make when I really have to poop but I'm stuck talking to someone. The uncomfortable, sort of sweaty, pensive, oh no, I'm gonna crap on top of this person as revenge. He is a handsome lad tho.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2020 16:59:32 GMT
What expression? I think he's beautiful, but has the emotional range of a spoon. Fortunately, that's the character. It reminds me of the face I make when I really have to poop but I'm stuck talking to someone. The uncomfortable, sort of sweaty, pensive, oh no, I'm gonna crap on top of this person as revenge. He is a handsome lad tho. Well, he definitely looks squeezed into that thing. Speaking of having to use the restroom, how do you think he does that in this outfit? Do they take it off at lunch and let him go? The wig looks much better this time.
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Post by legacyofthesword on Oct 6, 2020 23:05:55 GMT
Well I, for one, don't really see the problem with it. Sure, it's leather with metal studs. But it looks perfectly functional - you've got a pair of typical vambraces, a set of entirely decent pauldrons, and a basic breastplate (and presumably a backplate as well). Plenty of people, historically speaking, went into battle wearing armor that gave the exact same coverage - or even less.
EDIT: Looks like Le Mal already brought up what I was thinking.
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