yakalskovich | Running commentary to Henry IV -- 'Hollow Crown' -- mostly concentrating on Ned Poins

From the go, Falstaff uses 'thou' for Hal.
Yep, first thing Poins does is, he calls Hal 'sweet'.
Hah, but Poins calls him 'you', on the other hand.
'My lord' indeed -- Poins does keep some sort of polite distance to Hal that Falstaff does not. Also, they largely speak in prose, or in what passes for prose in Elizabethan theatre.
They don't actually address each other much...
'Where hast been, Hal?' -- yep, thou now, and very informally at that.
They are being very silly. The Elizabethans were easily amused.
On the other hand, present day frat boys do that sort of frat boy level behaviour as well.
Poins is a lot shorter than Hal -- Hal sits on the table, and Poins stands beside him, and only then are their heads at the same height.
Poins can do serious -- he brings Hal that message, and seems to know full well what it means.
'I do, I will' -- that is Hal speaking seriously, and that is the moment when Poins first realises that Hal will drop them all without an outward sign of regret when the time comes. There's this look that passes between them, too.
Two o'clock -- that is Elizabethan, not medieval. The actual middle ages were never as precise about time, especially night-time. If anything, they'd know what monastic prayer hour it was.
Doll can't read -- Poins can. Shows again that he's from a better educated background. Well, for Milliways purposes, I'm sticking with the 'son of an archer' thing, anyway.
While Falstaff is rambling, Poins is leaning in the background, looking bored, listening to everything.
He doesn't seem to have any lines in this scene, but hands Hal the ring the moment he needs it for the sake of argument. They operate rather hand-in-glove, the way Hal does with nobody else there.
He takes Poins to war with him?? I hadn't noticed the first time I watched. I'll keep my eyes peeled for him being in the background of this all.
Nope, no Poins at the scene before the battle, so far.
Even Falstaff is there -- where is Poins??
OMG what a mud fight! Still no Poins, though.
Still no Poins. WTF? Did David Dawson have the flu?

Okay, part 2 as well now -- let me see how far I get. I remember Poins fades out fairly early...

Falstaff has the money to wear better clothes and consult a doctor now. Plus the servant. He should have been content with that...
Hal's brothers are poor little meek things; and when his oldest brother mentions Poins, that seems to be a matter of some sort of special disapproval by the king. And the guy played by Ser Jorah Mormont (sorry, no idea what that character is called) says that the prince will be rid of them. Poins already knew that of course...
Yep, Poins is seriously hurt by the rude things Hal suddenly says to him, seemingly at random.
If you eavesdrop on people (literally, in this case), you will probably hear something you don't want to...
The things Falstaff says about Poins are probably to the point -- and in the things he does say, there's a lot of double entendre.
Poins smirks, walks out, and is done. And Hal is through with Falstaff. And Poins' smirk seems to say, 'See, you've ruined it for all of us'.
Hal really is a stone cold bastard to poor old Falstaff, shallow and misled as he may be. 'The rest of his misleaders', huh? Poins did well to be out of there.-