#bad archery

  See above. Oh dear. Dear oh dear oh dear. Where do we start?

This production at the RSC is most notable, of course, for the fact that it’s using archery on the poster. I mean, archery is relatively incidental in Peter Pan (apart from Tootles). Clearly, this Wendy Darling-focused production is going to show her drawing a bow as a shorthand demonstration of her spunky individualism. It’s still…

Well, the DVD of Catching Fire is coming out, and I took this picture of one of the posters on the London Underground:

        …and she’s stilldoing that looping-her-finger-round-the-arrow thing in the publicity shot. Ouch. Of course, in the actual filming almost all the arrows are CGI’d on afterwards, because it’s too dangerous to actually fire arrows around on the set. Stage bows often use…

A man after my own heart. Nikolas Lloyd on YouTube has produced an entire video detailing the bad archery, terrible combat strategies, and nitpicky errors in the 2003 miniseries Helen Of Troy. Regular readers of The Infinite Curve will note that I have…

There’s a vastly expensive new BBC fantasy drama series called Atlantis premiering worldwide soon, keen to surf on the Game Of Thrones wave, I’m guessing.

I don’t know what the budget was, but by the look of the six-second trailer they’ve released, there…