Sparkhouse
So I spent last night watching Sparkhouse (another BBC miniseries for those who don't know).
I'm sure I missed a lot of the Wuthering Heights parallels since I haven't read it in years and wasn't real crazy about it then. But I think remembering that goes a long way to explaining why the two main characters were pretty unlikable, although WAY more sympathetic that I remember their WH counterparts being. And they're well written, just not particularly likable.
Actually even that's not completely true, they just both got a lot less likable as the show went along. At the start their just kids who are madly in love with each other whose parents pretty effectively screw up their lives (really really badly in her case). And their destructive behavior afterward still works, I feel kind of bad for those around them, but I still thought pretty well of them.
It's the second half of the story where things get...unlikable. Carol does awesome things and finally leaves her jackass asshole of a father behind (easily the WORST character in the film, in a show filled with unlikable characters he's several orders of magnitude worse) and then the story jumps forward five years. In that time the two main characters lead relatively functional lives but as soon as they're back in orbit of each other it makes them forget that.
I get that they never got over each other really, and they both feel they were supposed to be together but mainly I just feel sorry for their significant others. Becky and John are both perfectly good people who get the shit end of the story while Andrew and Carol screw them up (I actually think I did have the same reaction to Wuthering Heights to be honest). I still feel for Carol in the end, but Andrew kind of loses me somewhere along the way, though I still hate him for dying in the end.
And a shout out to British Actor Bingo for causing some squirk factor. A young Holly (Holliday) Grainger and Richard Armitage in the same movie, where he ends up let's say her step-father and then play love interests on Robin Hood.
In any case it was well done, I wish my copy had been of higher quality but I guess I can't complain except that it really wouldn't work for vidding which I might have done otherwise. In spite of my issues with the characters, I actually do think I love the ship a little for the passion and intensity even if I can't condone it. Definitely an interesting show and it was worth watching to be sure.
I'm sure I missed a lot of the Wuthering Heights parallels since I haven't read it in years and wasn't real crazy about it then. But I think remembering that goes a long way to explaining why the two main characters were pretty unlikable, although WAY more sympathetic that I remember their WH counterparts being. And they're well written, just not particularly likable.
Actually even that's not completely true, they just both got a lot less likable as the show went along. At the start their just kids who are madly in love with each other whose parents pretty effectively screw up their lives (really really badly in her case). And their destructive behavior afterward still works, I feel kind of bad for those around them, but I still thought pretty well of them.
It's the second half of the story where things get...unlikable. Carol does awesome things and finally leaves her jackass asshole of a father behind (easily the WORST character in the film, in a show filled with unlikable characters he's several orders of magnitude worse) and then the story jumps forward five years. In that time the two main characters lead relatively functional lives but as soon as they're back in orbit of each other it makes them forget that.
I get that they never got over each other really, and they both feel they were supposed to be together but mainly I just feel sorry for their significant others. Becky and John are both perfectly good people who get the shit end of the story while Andrew and Carol screw them up (I actually think I did have the same reaction to Wuthering Heights to be honest). I still feel for Carol in the end, but Andrew kind of loses me somewhere along the way, though I still hate him for dying in the end.
And a shout out to British Actor Bingo for causing some squirk factor. A young Holly (Holliday) Grainger and Richard Armitage in the same movie, where he ends up let's say her step-father and then play love interests on Robin Hood.
In any case it was well done, I wish my copy had been of higher quality but I guess I can't complain except that it really wouldn't work for vidding which I might have done otherwise. In spite of my issues with the characters, I actually do think I love the ship a little for the passion and intensity even if I can't condone it. Definitely an interesting show and it was worth watching to be sure.