Watching Monday
Sep. 28th, 2015 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhStrange Empire
I've now watched the first six episodes (out of a total of 13), and I have mixed feelings on the show. On the one hand, the characters and actors are great! On the other hand, the writing and world-building occasionally makes no sense. For instance, I have no idea how much time is supposed to have passed in these six episodes. Sometimes it seems like it's been months (Mrs. Briggs has had time to start a bakery, give up on that, decide to sell alcohol, distill her own whiskey, and open a bar) and other times it seems like it's been at most two weeks (they're still finding the bodies of people killed in ep 1 that are identifiable and not total skeletons). I also have no idea how this place functions. They made a point of mentioning that there's no town nearby, so where are all the customers for the brothel coming from? Is it just supposed to be the miners? I don't feel like mine-workers would have enough spare cash to support a very fancy mansion of a brothel.
But despite all these nit-picky annoyances, I am enjoying it! I want you all to watch it so that I have people to discuss it with. New awesome details since I last posted about it include: a Extremely Handsome sheriff who's mixed race, white and Native American, who's clearly around to be eye candy; Ling, a Chinese guy with a Mysterious Background and some connection to Isabelle; Kat also is revealed to have a Mysterious Background and is apparently wanted by the law for murdering someone; a canon queer couple; Kat gets elected sheriff; canon ghosts but also lots of "let's fake ghosts to fool people out of their money" on Isabelle's part. But lots of beautiful costumes!
Also, I just want to put up a reminder that Sleepy Hollow Season 3 starts on Thursday. I know, I know, so many things about last season were... not good, but they've made so many changes that I'm at least giving this season a chance. Plus, I'm kinda into the idea of a SH/Bones crossover, even though I've never watched Bones.
I've now watched the first six episodes (out of a total of 13), and I have mixed feelings on the show. On the one hand, the characters and actors are great! On the other hand, the writing and world-building occasionally makes no sense. For instance, I have no idea how much time is supposed to have passed in these six episodes. Sometimes it seems like it's been months (Mrs. Briggs has had time to start a bakery, give up on that, decide to sell alcohol, distill her own whiskey, and open a bar) and other times it seems like it's been at most two weeks (they're still finding the bodies of people killed in ep 1 that are identifiable and not total skeletons). I also have no idea how this place functions. They made a point of mentioning that there's no town nearby, so where are all the customers for the brothel coming from? Is it just supposed to be the miners? I don't feel like mine-workers would have enough spare cash to support a very fancy mansion of a brothel.
But despite all these nit-picky annoyances, I am enjoying it! I want you all to watch it so that I have people to discuss it with. New awesome details since I last posted about it include: a Extremely Handsome sheriff who's mixed race, white and Native American, who's clearly around to be eye candy; Ling, a Chinese guy with a Mysterious Background and some connection to Isabelle; Kat also is revealed to have a Mysterious Background and is apparently wanted by the law for murdering someone; a canon queer couple; Kat gets elected sheriff; canon ghosts but also lots of "let's fake ghosts to fool people out of their money" on Isabelle's part. But lots of beautiful costumes!
Also, I just want to put up a reminder that Sleepy Hollow Season 3 starts on Thursday. I know, I know, so many things about last season were... not good, but they've made so many changes that I'm at least giving this season a chance. Plus, I'm kinda into the idea of a SH/Bones crossover, even though I've never watched Bones.
