A Girl With a Sword

"it's the cavalry!"

One word I believe we need to use more in everyday speech is "cavalry" (another is "chimera," but we would all have to sound like John Rhys-Davies for that to work, and we don't). I say this because for one thing it's a good word, especially when it is screeched by Marty McFly in Back to the Future III, the context with which I always associate it (see blog title quote), but also, the word "cavalry" should be used more because far too often people confuse it with the word "Calvary," and that's just bad form. Yesterday I was watching The Two Towers with cast commentary and one of the actors kept going on about how Rohan was so great because of their calvary. So, cavalry. Go out and use it with impunity. Oh, and for all who haven't seen it, the cast commentary is well worth watching (or listening to, rather). It made me think about when I first saw Fellowship of the Ring and how happy I was that it was a beautiful and well-made interpretation, and I feel a bit bad about all the things I said about Return of the King, because, while I did mean them, I guess I watched it more looking for things not to like, and that's never the way to watch a movie. Bad Linnea, bad. She will have to go iron her fingers now.