Just a quick comment mostly to say hello (post-Pennsic I'm finding all these dancer LJs that I didn't know about--found yours through Anton). It was good to see you at war and you definitely owe me some articles. ;)
Topic? Ah, yes. I watched the full series of Regency Houses and was actually fairly disappointed by them, partly, it would seem, for the reason that you liked them (or, at least, are intrigued by them). I actually found the role-playing stuff tacked on and uninteresting. Maybe this has something to do with my own particular historical bent, though. I am a social and domestic historian to the core and I'm very interested by the miniscule details of daily life in the past. Part of what made me really like previous House incarnations (especially Victorian House and 1940s House--the American ones are terrible and I thought Manor House was largely unsuccessful) was that they were so organic. I love seeing how modern people reacted to the situations around them and their physical surroundings--which aspects of modernism and contemporary mind-sets they could leave behind when they entered the time warp and which they couldn't. For me, the "game" of having to broker matches (which was obviously unsustainable after the show ended) just got in the way of watching the participants grapple with day-to-day life in the Regency--the corsets, chamber pots, and cholesterol-laden diets, etc. I'll be interested to hear your thoughts after you see the full series, though. (My big comment--That's not dancing! That's WALKING!!).
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Regency House and Hello
Date: 2005-08-20 10:02 pm (UTC)Topic?
Ah, yes. I watched the full series of Regency Houses and was actually fairly disappointed by them, partly, it would seem, for the reason that you liked them (or, at least, are intrigued by them). I actually found the role-playing stuff tacked on and uninteresting. Maybe this has something to do with my own particular historical bent, though. I am a social and domestic historian to the core and I'm very interested by the miniscule details of daily life in the past. Part of what made me really like previous House incarnations (especially Victorian House and 1940s House--the American ones are terrible and I thought Manor House was largely unsuccessful) was that they were so organic. I love seeing how modern people reacted to the situations around them and their physical surroundings--which aspects of modernism and contemporary mind-sets they could leave behind when they entered the time warp and which they couldn't. For me, the "game" of having to broker matches (which was obviously unsustainable after the show ended) just got in the way of watching the participants grapple with day-to-day life in the Regency--the corsets, chamber pots, and cholesterol-laden diets, etc. I'll be interested to hear your thoughts after you see the full series, though. (My big comment--That's not dancing! That's WALKING!!).
Katherine