Historical
Poldark 5.2
I found myself more interested in the Carnes and Ennyses - the latter’s personal thoughts about Dwight’s lecture and case being entirely absent - than most of the stuff involving new people. Despard really doesn’t help himself, does he? And I am finding it hard to believe in him as a career soldier who follows orders and gets rewarded for it. Hanson is a caricature - and he has a top secret confederate (superior?) who uses a bird of prey as an accessory. I hope the big reveal involves an evil moustache. Even Geoffrey Charles Mark 3 and Cicely feel like a remix of lowly Dwight and Drake courting, well, Cecily is more Caroline than Morwenna. They may call themselves motherless young pups, but I’m thinking silly young kids, though the moment GC realises her father wants to offer her to his stepfather had better be as dramatic as possible.
Dear Drake,
Try shirtlessness.
That’s all.
More seriously - eh - while our heroes’ instincts have long been defined, and the threat of the poor rising up against their oppression has always been part of the show, seeing Ross et al labelled as Jacobites is interesting. But a conspiracy to cover up a conspiracy? All these black people you never bothered to show in Cornwall before? Oh, show.
George’s delusions of Elizabeth (lots of flashbacks and ghosts, which is a bit much when one thought we were rid of her) and his uncle not wanting to do anything about it, but knowing he should, did not make me feel very sorry for Georgie. Valentine, abandoned - he should have been the one his half-brother was playing with! - and believing a lie was a heartbreaker, and as the little kid given the most to do, the actor did well.
Seeing Morwenna interact with a child made Drake broody, it made me remember she had already given birth to a son of her own, and I’m glad that they seem to be picking that up in the next episode.
Meanwhile, Demelza was getting to witness racism (remember there were no black people in Cornwall until this series), suffering a crowded house, but having all Ross’s confidence. And she was right about being watched. But she should have consulted with Ross before doing the leaflet drop, which did indeed cause trouble. HER STRICKEN FACE.
Servant lady that Prudie and Sam do eye in different ways, don’t think ye be likely to remove The Heroine of the Piece. You don’t even want Ross, just status. And green doesn’t look as good on you as it does on her.
I watched the first episode of Fosse/Verdon - the second was on immediately afterwards, but I’d had a tough day and wanted an early bed, so I’ll catch up on that. I just know the names, and more of his work than anything else - I hadn’t realised they were married. But Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams as musical theatre stars at work, while also married? He looked a bit like Stanley Tucci in the face, while I saw a little of her Marilyn, was reminded she’s played Sally Bowles on stage herself, and she very quickly convinced as someone who’d done a lot of dancing. Amid the biographical stuff, showing how they worked together on a professional and personal level, mainly at a particular time in their lives (the making of the movie ‘Sweet Chartiy’ to its relative failure to making ‘Cabaret’), there was a lot of Fosse having a reflective smoke. Some of this led to flashbacks of when he was a kid being trained hard, which got repetitive and were less powerful than his pitch as to why he should direct ‘Chicago.’
Older him watching younger him felt like it would work better on the stage, for me, but the cuts from timeline to timeline, with the unusual titlecard (I presume it’s counting down to his death?) were far more effective.
What struck me was how unfair it was that he got the credit, when it was Verdon’s work as an interlocutor that got the films made. She also had to deal with the pressure of people saying she should have got the lead roles, and maybe she should, but younger women did, and having to be graceful about that while her husband did some male director stuff with German interpreters. I hope we get flashbacks for her.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/392230.html.
I found myself more interested in the Carnes and Ennyses - the latter’s personal thoughts about Dwight’s lecture and case being entirely absent - than most of the stuff involving new people. Despard really doesn’t help himself, does he? And I am finding it hard to believe in him as a career soldier who follows orders and gets rewarded for it. Hanson is a caricature - and he has a top secret confederate (superior?) who uses a bird of prey as an accessory. I hope the big reveal involves an evil moustache. Even Geoffrey Charles Mark 3 and Cicely feel like a remix of lowly Dwight and Drake courting, well, Cecily is more Caroline than Morwenna. They may call themselves motherless young pups, but I’m thinking silly young kids, though the moment GC realises her father wants to offer her to his stepfather had better be as dramatic as possible.
Dear Drake,
Try shirtlessness.
That’s all.
More seriously - eh - while our heroes’ instincts have long been defined, and the threat of the poor rising up against their oppression has always been part of the show, seeing Ross et al labelled as Jacobites is interesting. But a conspiracy to cover up a conspiracy? All these black people you never bothered to show in Cornwall before? Oh, show.
George’s delusions of Elizabeth (lots of flashbacks and ghosts, which is a bit much when one thought we were rid of her) and his uncle not wanting to do anything about it, but knowing he should, did not make me feel very sorry for Georgie. Valentine, abandoned - he should have been the one his half-brother was playing with! - and believing a lie was a heartbreaker, and as the little kid given the most to do, the actor did well.
Seeing Morwenna interact with a child made Drake broody, it made me remember she had already given birth to a son of her own, and I’m glad that they seem to be picking that up in the next episode.
Meanwhile, Demelza was getting to witness racism (remember there were no black people in Cornwall until this series), suffering a crowded house, but having all Ross’s confidence. And she was right about being watched. But she should have consulted with Ross before doing the leaflet drop, which did indeed cause trouble. HER STRICKEN FACE.
Servant lady that Prudie and Sam do eye in different ways, don’t think ye be likely to remove The Heroine of the Piece. You don’t even want Ross, just status. And green doesn’t look as good on you as it does on her.
I watched the first episode of Fosse/Verdon - the second was on immediately afterwards, but I’d had a tough day and wanted an early bed, so I’ll catch up on that. I just know the names, and more of his work than anything else - I hadn’t realised they were married. But Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams as musical theatre stars at work, while also married? He looked a bit like Stanley Tucci in the face, while I saw a little of her Marilyn, was reminded she’s played Sally Bowles on stage herself, and she very quickly convinced as someone who’d done a lot of dancing. Amid the biographical stuff, showing how they worked together on a professional and personal level, mainly at a particular time in their lives (the making of the movie ‘Sweet Chartiy’ to its relative failure to making ‘Cabaret’), there was a lot of Fosse having a reflective smoke. Some of this led to flashbacks of when he was a kid being trained hard, which got repetitive and were less powerful than his pitch as to why he should direct ‘Chicago.’
Older him watching younger him felt like it would work better on the stage, for me, but the cuts from timeline to timeline, with the unusual titlecard (I presume it’s counting down to his death?) were far more effective.
What struck me was how unfair it was that he got the credit, when it was Verdon’s work as an interlocutor that got the films made. She also had to deal with the pressure of people saying she should have got the lead roles, and maybe she should, but younger women did, and having to be graceful about that while her husband did some male director stuff with German interpreters. I hope we get flashbacks for her.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/392230.html.