a Metallicar love post: S1 Part2

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Previously... Season 1: Part 1

This post covers Bloody Mary through Bugs. Yes, Bugs. Only the most triumphant example of how love, beauty and badassery can overcome even the stupidest plot known to genre. \o/ You will learn to love it as I do, or you have no heart. NONE. >:'|

On with it, then! And like before, this post is not dial-up friendly.

Comments

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I agree totally with your opinion of Bugs. I suspect if someone went to the trouble of tracking it, she wouldn't have been off-screen for any longer than few minutes at a pop.

When it's done perfectly, the Impala is a plot tool (a vehicle in motion), a stationary setting (a home for the characters) and a character (a subject of its own right in the scene), all at the same time. Look here. You have to see it in motion (in video) to get the full effect of the camera swooping in around her, settling for a moment, then lifting back up as she moves on. Done well, it's not busy camera work at all, but like a natural wave drifting up in the Impala's wake.

This (from part one) is wonderfully put and so true. In a way, the show lasting long enough to build a history is kind of like that.

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Bugs is so underrated. And I totally agree with your thought about the show lasting so long. I love that they take care to build history like that.