Let it snow, let it snow, let snow...

[blue_aeon]

For the first time in God-knows-how-many years, my area has had snow in the run up to Christmas. Everyone has every available body part crossed that the snow's still here in two days' time (another snow-storm would be nice), because it's my kid sister angelbless' 21st birthday on Christmas Day and all she's ever wanted is snow on her birthday (she's never

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[bodyline]

WATCH SOME JON PERTWEE SERIALS, OKAY. DO IT.

omg i love hamlet so much, though i'm not really sure i look forward to tennant's version. i love horatio hardcore and don't really like what i've heard about him in this play and i hate that they went the oedipal route with hamlet and gertrude. plus, i don't like the versions that have an older hamlet, even though he was played by an older gentleman originally. the play makes NO SENSE AT ALL if hamlet's older and it just really bugs me, especially since he acts like such a spoiled teenager anyway. :|

HEARTGOLD AND SOULSILVER NEED TO BE RELEASED IN ENGLISH, LIKE, YESTERDAY. SERIOUSLY.

[blue_aeon]

FIND ME DAY OF THE DALEKS AND YOU WON'T SEE ME FOR DUST. SERIOUSLY.

Having never seen Hamlet before, I figure I may as well start somewhere. As for the Oedipal thing, I can't really judge due to my lack of familiarity, although Tennant was asked on the matter in an interview done during the production, and he certainly doesn't read it that way (I'm rather inclined to agree with him - but then Oedipal subtext is a bit of a blind spot for me and chances are I won't read it as that when I watch it even if I'm aware of it beforehand). I'll agree on the age though, that's a bit perplexing (it's just as well that Tennant's apparent age can be a pain to pin down) - I certainly wouldn't put him at being older than 35, because I can't see someone older than that behaving in that manner. Although someone's very badly-phrased fandom secret did make me wonder if there's a large time skip in the play somewhere.

THAT RELEASE DATE CAN'T COME FAST ENOUGH. I WANT MY LITTLE TOTODILE BACK AND EASILY CAUGHT DRATINI SO BADLY.

(capslocking's blummin'

[bodyline]

Even if Tennant doesn't read it that, if the director does (which from what I've heard, he did) than... yeah. But I never saw it myself, mostly because Hamlet mostly seems angry about her marrying Claudius because of how soon it happened. He seems to feel like she's betraying his father, so he's pretty pissed about that, but aside from that he never sh any signs of having repressed sexual feelings for her. Hamlet definitely doesn't act like an adult, and if he were an adult, then the plot kind of stops making sense, because if he is an adult, then why doesn't he become king when his father dies? IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, IT DOESN'T.

I WANT MY LV 100 TOTODILE TO FOLLOW ME AROUND EVERYWHERE AND KICK ASS.

[blue_aeon]

I'll probably see it the same way, as well as him probably trying not to think too much about the fact that his mother is sleeping with his uncle (I'd probably be trying not to think about it myself if I was in his position).

The adult thing's a bit tricky. He certainly doesn't act like one, but I've known adults who do behave... well, the opposite, so I can stretch my disbelief on that score. If anything, it feeds into the idea that no-one's sure if Hamlet's actually bonkers or not (the Danes apparently had a fear of killing the insane which isn't stated in the play, so part of it could be a self-preservation ploy - whether it still is a ploy by the end is another matter).

if he were an adult, then the plot kind of stops making sense, because if he is an adult, then why doesn't he become king when his father dies?
That's the one thing I didn't get about it, but I figured that the Danes must have had a different kind of monarchy to the ones I'm familiar with, so I looked it up - this essay gives a pretty reasonable explanation for