Watching Monday

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True Blood
Episode 7.01. I think 7? What the hell season is this show on, I don't even know. Everything about it is like the worst stereotype of a ridiculous soap opera, and yet I love it anyway.


TARA'S NOT REALLY DEAD, RIGHT? RIGHT? On the one hand, I can't imagine the show would kill her off and not even do it on-screen. On the other hand, I can't imagine what Lettie Mae's motivation would be for lying about it.

Man, the governor's-daughter-vampire-who-Eric-made looks way too similar to Eric's-vampire-sister-Elizabethan-lady; I kept getting them confused and going "Didn't you die last season"? Also, if I was her, I would totally not trust the preacher dude enough to sleep in his basement. It's vampire apocalypse time! Find a safer hiding spot.

The Morocco scenes were pretty and very well-done, though I did not at all like the "eat my daughter" thing. I also disapprove of Jason's girlfriend's "Oh, I've just been trying to provoke you into raping me" thing. WTF.

Man, I am kinda shipping Lafayette/vampire-draft-dodger. (GOD I KNOW NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS' NAMES.) But I don't want Lafayette to steal Jessica's boyfriend! But he and Lafayette were so pretty together. CHOICES.


Penny Dreadful

This was a FANTASTIC episode! God, Eva Green does creepy so well.

I loved Vanessa's "He fucked you and you loved it". It was oddly hot and now I totally want the Ethan/Dorian fic. Ethan/Victor's little shooting lesson was also adorable and Victor was such a schoolboy.

Ethan as evil-vision-devil-whatever was amazingly creepy. I also love has Ethan is continuing to show himself as the only decent character on this show.

"Do you believe in God?" "I believe in everything." WHY DO CHARACTERS KEEP SAYING THAT WHAT DOES IT EVEN MEAN? Do you believe in leprechauns, astrology, and homeopathy? (Although, not gonna lie, I would love to see Penny Dreadful's take on leprechauns.)

We're never getting any backstory on Sembene, are we Damnit show, we are not supposed to be reenacting Victorian racism.

Man, that poor priest. He had no idea what was going on. Also, what even happened at the end? Why does Ethan know Latin? What is that necklace? How did he cure her? I'M SO CONFUSED.

Comments

[dhampyresa.livejournal.com]

Re: lafayette, Jessica nd the boyfriend, is a threesome not an option? I know nothing about this canon, except that Anna Paquin's in it, so it's an honest question.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, good point! I think there hasn't been any long-term threesomes on the show (yet!), but there have definitely been some one-night-stand ones. It is just what True Blood needs!

[samgrass.livejournal.com]

So glad I wasn't the only one WTF'ing at the surprise Latin! Maybe Ethan is a former seminary student? (I'm a little more ambivalent about him sticking it on Vanessa, though, in what seems bound to turn into another half-hearted Dracula shout-out to actual!Mina and the Communion wafer.) They really need to get going on more about Sembene -- it looked like the conversation about how he and Sir Malcolm know each other ("ah, I know! Sir Malcolm saved your life and now you owe him a debt of honor!" "'um, actually, have you considered that maybe I saved him?") was going an interesting place but it sort of petered out. And given some of the unpleasant stuff revealed about Murray this episode, I'd like them to do more than give lip service to "19th century action-adventure racism is bad, all right?".

Possessed!Ethan gave me the creeps, but I loved seeing more of the cast flex their creepy-possession-acting muscles and Ethan being the only one who seems to give a damn about certain things. (Victor swore at a priest, which was... memorable -- hopefully he helped patch that guy up afterward because that was scary.)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I do think (hope!) we'll get Ethan's backstory in the next episode, since it's the finale. Whether it's seminary student or priest or werewolf or whatever, I can't wait to find out.

And yeah, I had high hopes for that conversation with Sembene, and then it went nowhere.

Yes! I love the actors getting to play creepy, so different from Ethan's normal character.

(And ha, yeah, I do hope someone took care of the priest's poor face!)