Comments | dangermousie: Parade's End = obsession

dangermousie

Parade's End = obsession

Oct 15, 2012 11:00

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corlee1289 October 15 2012, 16:14:12 UTC

I think I have a dangerous and unhealthy relationship with your livejournal, I check it constantly if you've updated with a post so that I can swoon and flail silently alongside with you instead of doing school work OTL

BUT THIS LOOKS GORGEOUS AND I MUST DOWNLOAD THIS WHEN I CAN!!

dangermousie October 15 2012, 18:15:02 UTC

It's so so good. I cannot recommend highly enough.

anonymous October 15 2012, 16:28:20 UTC

Benedict Cumberbatch?!

Yes, please.

dangermousie October 15 2012, 18:14:46 UTC

Enjoy!

anonymous October 15 2012, 17:01:24 UTC

Benedict Cumberbatch... That's why I love british actors, they are less polished but more perfect than any other actor in the States (sorry!). :3

dangermousie October 15 2012, 18:14:37 UTC

He is excellent. His character is reserved almost to the point of muteness, but he expresses so much despite that.

cleobulle October 15 2012, 17:02:31 UTC

I'd completely forgotten about Parade's End!

I watched the first 2 episodes a fex weeks ago and then stopped because there was no more to watch. I then tried to go and google the book it's based on to find out spoilers about what was going to happen next but I couldn't find much and totally forgot about it.

I might pick it up again.

dangermousie October 15 2012, 18:14:07 UTC

It's all out and I have found myself obsessed. It almost never happens with a Western show...

hollyxu October 15 2012, 17:34:55 UTC

I loved the framing and the values of Parade's End, but I kept getting thrown out of the narrative because I couldn't turn off my values dissonance. D:

But it's a beautiful, beautiful show.

dangermousie October 15 2012, 18:13:39 UTC

I prefer Victorian literature out of all kinds of literature (no idea why, but I do) and by those standards, PE is positively revolutionary, values-wise. So that doesn't bother me. I mean, for example Christopher's ideas about divorce would be insane for a modern person, but for 1912, they aren't unusual.

hollyxu October 15 2012, 18:27:01 UTC

I know, right, that's what makes it weird! I mean, I watch historical dramas all the time and read regency-era novels! But there's this strange sense of nostalgia in Parade's End for that kind of rarified overbred Old-Boys' Club way of life that I just can't stomach.

Which is a shame, because it's a good story, and an amazing visual presentation.

dangermousie October 15 2012, 18:35:18 UTC

See, I don't get nostalgia at all (which I do get with Downton Abbey, actually). I actually keep thinking how much happier everyone would be if they didn't get brought up in Victorian times and got the bad luck of living in Edwardian times and having WW1 and that is what I get from the show a lot (interesting how perspectives differ ( ... )

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