Yuletide Recs II
Neapolitan Quartet - Elena Ferrante:
L'Amica Crudele Lénu and Lila in a time loop. It would never have occured to me to use the Groundhog Day principle on the "My Brilliant Friend" verse, and yet it feels perfect for how Elena uses her memories and writing even in canon in order to capture the vanished Lila.
Sarah Jane Adventures:
Wanted: Defender of the Earth (Short Term Substite): in which Sarah Jane wants to go on a direly needed vacation and tries to find someone with world-saving experience to look after the kids in the meantime. The results, with candidates from the various DW incarnations and spin-offs, are hysterical. I loved it.
Star Trek: Discovery:
Our minds, one and together: which is a fantastic take on the relationship between Michael and Sarek, with all its ups and downs, its complexities, deftly steering between angst and humor.
Lawrence of Arabia:
Your words devour my heart: which manages to be so many things: inter alia, an ambitious and clever update of the movie to the current day (during the Arab Spring and its ongoing devastating aftermath), and slightly more hopeful outcome for Ali and Lawrence.
Wuthering Heights
Trapped and Fluttering - an episode shows the changing relationship between Cathy the younger and Hareton in the second part of the novel. Not least since so many people seem to ignore the second part of the novel, I'm always delighted to find fans engaging with it, and this story does so with tenderness and skill.
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L'Amica Crudele Lénu and Lila in a time loop. It would never have occured to me to use the Groundhog Day principle on the "My Brilliant Friend" verse, and yet it feels perfect for how Elena uses her memories and writing even in canon in order to capture the vanished Lila.
Sarah Jane Adventures:
Wanted: Defender of the Earth (Short Term Substite): in which Sarah Jane wants to go on a direly needed vacation and tries to find someone with world-saving experience to look after the kids in the meantime. The results, with candidates from the various DW incarnations and spin-offs, are hysterical. I loved it.
Star Trek: Discovery:
Our minds, one and together: which is a fantastic take on the relationship between Michael and Sarek, with all its ups and downs, its complexities, deftly steering between angst and humor.
Lawrence of Arabia:
Your words devour my heart: which manages to be so many things: inter alia, an ambitious and clever update of the movie to the current day (during the Arab Spring and its ongoing devastating aftermath), and slightly more hopeful outcome for Ali and Lawrence.
Wuthering Heights
Trapped and Fluttering - an episode shows the changing relationship between Cathy the younger and Hareton in the second part of the novel. Not least since so many people seem to ignore the second part of the novel, I'm always delighted to find fans engaging with it, and this story does so with tenderness and skill.
This entry was originally posted at https://selenak.dreamwidth.org/1320274.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.