Half-Hearted Wenching v 2.0 -now with content!

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I hope. Every time I try to post content to my previous thread on this topic, I get an ‘SDMB database error’ response. So Mods, please delete that thread, especially if this one works.

WTF? I wrote an intro to this one.

OK, I’ll do over. Mods, I dunno what the hell happened here …

OK, in my thread on the banned “Avengers” episode, Idlewild mentioned that “The Hellfire Club” episode had “the most hilariously inept wenching scene ever.” And I have to agree. Going by that scene, one would assume that ‘wenching’ consists of elaborately dressed women hanging out with elaborately dressed men, sometimes sitting on their laps, the hussies, and laughing uproariously at everything the men say, often throwing their heads back as they do so, while the men do likewise at everything the women say, including the head-throwing back.

No wenches are being kissed, much less groped or fondled.

I expect that there are a lot of hilariously bad wenching scenes out there, especially from TV, because the medium has historically been so heavily censored.

Now my idea of a good wenching scene is the one from “Deathstalker,” where a bunch of gladiators are enjoying a Big Feast prior to going to battle in the arena the next day. There’s feasting and drinking and laughing and also half naked women and half-naked men kissing and groping and such, and some extracurricular fighting as well. It looks like a real Wild Party, barbarian division. That would sort of set the standard – a wenching scene should be a big party, with lots of food and drink consumed with gusto, singing laughing talking etc. – where men and women behave with extreme sexual irresponsibility. Dancing girls are always a plus.

I expect there are many scenes on movies and TV that fall far short of this measures, like the one from The Avengers.

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To mention another Peter Wyngarde Half-Hearted Wenching Moment, in an episode of the Saint, season 5, The Man Who Liked Lions, there’s a really rather dull orgy going on.

Not to spoil the plot tremendously, but the titular figure of the episode has a throwback to the Romans thing going on - Peter Wyngarde does really well in roles in which he’s condeming the modern world for being weak and decadent.

At his villainous villa there is a regular pile of young ladies and gentlemen in pseudo-Roman garb more or less just piled on couches looking bored and decorative. Again, I think it’s meant to be racy and raunchy but mostly it looks like you’d be better off staying home washing your hair. But Roger Moore, who has in my opinion fantastic legs, does get his kit somewhat off and into a gladiator outfit so I suppose I’d show up for that.

(In another, off-topic, similarity with the Hellfire Club, we learn the inadvisability of standing on trapdoors in your own evil lair. Or as my husband and I like to put it: “Don’t stand on the circle of justice, and don’t keep a lion pit under your living-room carpet!”)