Day 13: Favourite Episode
OH NO I have not been looking forward to this one. It’s pretty much too hard to choose buuuuuuuuut… Okay, this is not the episode I think is technically the best, or sums up the show the best, has the best acting, or showcases all the characters, but the one I just love and could watch again and again is Fool For Love.
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This eppy does it for me on every level. I've never tried to pick a favorite but this one might well be it.
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Tho by herself Nikki makes up for almost all the pissing and moaning I could do about costuming. Her Afro, so we know she's Black not just black, and that she's conscious. How intimidating she is. How she's dressed in a way that is pretty transgressive for the time, and suggests ties to the Black Power or Black Panther movement. Tons of characterization for a woman who doesn't say anything with words. And between her death date and Robin's age we know that if he was an accident, he was a wanted accident. Most likely he wasn't an accident at all. Subtle. And most of that *wasn't* in the script explicitly, it's all down to costuming and which stunt woman they cast. So for all my whining, sometimes the costume department blew it out of the park.
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I don't know much about history beyond the broad strokes, but it even struck me as odd that William was at a Victorian evening do in a light coloured suit. I mean obviously they wanted to visually single him out, but wow, was that egregious.
I love everything you say about Nikki -- that's how you costume right, that's for sure :)
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*g* so very, very true :D
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