Watching Monday
Jun. 2nd, 2014 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhGame of Thrones
OH MAN ARE WE GOING TO HAVE A GREY WORM/MISSANDEI ROMANCE SUBPLOT? I am here for that! YES WE ARE I AM SHIPPING THIS SO HARD.
Whereas the Theon and Ramsay scenes are becoming my least favorite part of the show. Which is odd, because I loved Theon's ADWD plotline (in a "I love painful tragic angst" sort of way, of course). But on the show I'm starting to want to just fast-forward through them.
Ah, this Littlefinger and Sansa trial-esque scene was FANTASTIC. Tensions, secrets revealed, lies! Dude, wow. It's amazing that recounting things we already know could be so dramatic. Though what is up with her evil!Raven dress in her later scene?
Mmm, I don't think I like how the Jorah storyline played out. Dany is angry, yes, but she doesn't seem hurt at all. This is supposed to be one of the foundational betrayals of her life, a betrayal foretold by prophecy; it's not just anyone spying on her. I would have wanted angsty Dany dramatic shots, rather than angsty Jorah dramatic shots. (Okay, part of that is because I have no sympathy for Jorah in this, but just in general I feel like there was nowhere near enough attention paid to Dany's pain.)
I don't know how I feel about Tyrion's beetle story. I like the central metaphor of it, I suppose, but it was so loud and so... weird. I did like the callback to Jamie killing that what's-his-name Lannister with the "what kind of killing doesn't have a name?"/"Cousins."
OH MY GOD THAT WAS SO GROSS. Is that how Oberyn died in the book? I don't remember the eye thing.
Penny Dreadful
Man, I love Frankenstein's new monster SO MUCH. I love that he calls Frankenstein "demon" - it's such a neat reversal of the usual dynamics. I love all the gender-roleplay with references to birth and bearing and children. It goes along really well with the original novel, though it's an aspect that gets dropped from most adaptations. And I LOVE that he's called Caliban. That symbolism works so much better for me than the original Caliban, actually; I like an actually-created creature thinking "you have taught me language, and my profit on it is, I know how to curse" more than a slave doing so.
Welp, that's an orgy. I like that this version of Dorian Grey is just going there.
If I ever was curious about the details on sex on consumption, this show is more than providing the visuals. She's even Irish!
OH NO KITTY. HE FED A CAT TO THE VAMPIRE.
Dorian/Ethan! I... was totally assuming that would stay subtext. But I approve! And I will approve moreso if Vanessa/Mina is a thing, as the trailer for next week seemed to suggest.
OH MAN ARE WE GOING TO HAVE A GREY WORM/MISSANDEI ROMANCE SUBPLOT? I am here for that! YES WE ARE I AM SHIPPING THIS SO HARD.
Whereas the Theon and Ramsay scenes are becoming my least favorite part of the show. Which is odd, because I loved Theon's ADWD plotline (in a "I love painful tragic angst" sort of way, of course). But on the show I'm starting to want to just fast-forward through them.
Ah, this Littlefinger and Sansa trial-esque scene was FANTASTIC. Tensions, secrets revealed, lies! Dude, wow. It's amazing that recounting things we already know could be so dramatic. Though what is up with her evil!Raven dress in her later scene?
Mmm, I don't think I like how the Jorah storyline played out. Dany is angry, yes, but she doesn't seem hurt at all. This is supposed to be one of the foundational betrayals of her life, a betrayal foretold by prophecy; it's not just anyone spying on her. I would have wanted angsty Dany dramatic shots, rather than angsty Jorah dramatic shots. (Okay, part of that is because I have no sympathy for Jorah in this, but just in general I feel like there was nowhere near enough attention paid to Dany's pain.)
I don't know how I feel about Tyrion's beetle story. I like the central metaphor of it, I suppose, but it was so loud and so... weird. I did like the callback to Jamie killing that what's-his-name Lannister with the "what kind of killing doesn't have a name?"/"Cousins."
OH MY GOD THAT WAS SO GROSS. Is that how Oberyn died in the book? I don't remember the eye thing.
Penny Dreadful
Man, I love Frankenstein's new monster SO MUCH. I love that he calls Frankenstein "demon" - it's such a neat reversal of the usual dynamics. I love all the gender-roleplay with references to birth and bearing and children. It goes along really well with the original novel, though it's an aspect that gets dropped from most adaptations. And I LOVE that he's called Caliban. That symbolism works so much better for me than the original Caliban, actually; I like an actually-created creature thinking "you have taught me language, and my profit on it is, I know how to curse" more than a slave doing so.
Welp, that's an orgy. I like that this version of Dorian Grey is just going there.
If I ever was curious about the details on sex on consumption, this show is more than providing the visuals. She's even Irish!
OH NO KITTY. HE FED A CAT TO THE VAMPIRE.
Dorian/Ethan! I... was totally assuming that would stay subtext. But I approve! And I will approve moreso if Vanessa/Mina is a thing, as the trailer for next week seemed to suggest.
