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May. 25th, 2013 01:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castalieI started typing up this entry during lunch break and at the time this is what I had at the top "[Hopefully insert review of Hannibal 1x09 here"]" because I hadn't been able to download the file before leaving for work and I was crossing all fingers that the file would be up for grab when I'd get home. Spoilers: it was. The episode was glorious, pure love. So I'm happy to insert my review of Hannibal 1x09 here ;)
"Trou Normand" had some of the best lines ever! It was a real fest! I mean, "I'm your friend, Will, I don't care about the lives you save, I care about your life" was already incredible but then Hannibal decided to go evenslashier one step further "We are her fathers now" This happened! For real *__* At one point, Cookie wondered whether the writers weren't just writing their very own fanfic. I'm asking the same question myself lol "We are her fathers now". It'll take some time for me to recover, ok?
The Hannibal-Will scenes were incredibly good, weren't they? Though it's par for the course with these two. Also, how lovely is it that Will's subconscious brings him to Hannibal? Hannibal is Will's safe place! It's both beautiful and, of course, tragic.
This is all so confusing, really, not knowing what's going on in Hannibal's head is driving me insane! I know it's the whole point and it sure doesn't make the bromance even remotely less interesting and beautiful but argh! It's stressful.
Even though it would defeat the purpose, I wish it were a bit easier to tell what's genuine interest and/or care for Will and what's just part of Hannibal's nefarious plan to... well, to what exactly? How does he picture the end of their story? Is he planning on killing Will at one point or is he just trying to lure him to the dark side? Or maybe he doesn't even know himself. He does seem baffled by their relationship, after all, and he's trying to make sense of what's going on. One thing is sure, he's quite talented at ensuring that Will is alienated from everyone who is not him. Or from Jack, more specifically.
The relationship with Abigail is only making things more confusing (I lap it up, mind you!). Episode 1x09 showed Hannibal playing house so to speak and effectively trapping Will, now they can really be the psycho daddies to their equally psychotic daughter (happy, creepy family!). Sharing a dark secret is a great way to unite people and isolate them from the rest of the world, after all. Well done, sir!
The whole "No-one can tell" scene was chilling because Hannibal seems to have won another round. Will is already on the verge of breaking and now Hannibal has added a whole new level to the fucked-up'ness that is Will's life. It's like another of his recipes; add a bit more dependency, simmer until the isolation is complete. Will is just breaking my heart, seriously. It's like he's completely alone and there's no one to save him. Now he had his trust and his confidence shattered and "the one good thing in his life is tainted" *criez*
Speaking of Will not being well. Jack needs to pay attention. I don't know whether he truly doesn't see what's right in front of him (and isn't he supposed to be a professional observer, btw?) or if he's just lying to himself and accepting Will's lies because it suits his purpose. I mean, he does refer to Will's instability when it suits him (re: his forbidding Will to join Abigail for the body identification). Admittedly, he did ask Will, point blank, about what was going on and if Will had a problem but, seriously, he's Will's superior and self-appointed protector (remember when you promised to protect him, Jack?) he should just be more careful...
I'm impressed by the choice not to have Alana and Will develop a relationship at this point of the narrative; in any other shows, Alana would have started an affair with Will despite her doubts and worries. It wouldn't have been healthy for either of them but it wouldn't have mattered. To have her admit her feelings but refusing to do anything about them for the moment sounds almost too healthy a decision for a tv show ;) The hug they shared was so sweet; Will seemed to truly be clinging to her.
And even though it wasn't a full-on hug, wasn't the scene when Hannibal puts his hand on Will's shoulder beautiful? Twisted too because it feels like he's somehow sealing the bargain between them with that gesture, adding the last little push Will needs, but at the same time is there any way he is genuinely trying to offer physical support to him? Argh, so many conflicted feelings!
I know we just had episode 1x09 but I so cannot wait for x10 and the rest, it's going to be epic! Incidentally, I like the idea of this episode as a trou normand, you know, used to re-awaken your appetite when you're having a long and heavy meal so that you can truly appreciate the last part of it instead of being too stuffed to savour anything ;)
Funny thing, I feel like I've been going through a show-watching revival of some sorts the past couple of months. For a while I basically didn't watch anything anymore, or very sporadically, but I'm back to really enjoying the sensation of sitting down to watch a tv show on a weekly basis (or, you know, daily, depending on the show). Well, no, it's a kind of pleasure I never forgot but it is still nice to be actively feeling it again.
Anyway, all that to say that I'm still watching POI every now and then as well as tuning in to Hannibal every week and, as of a couple of days ago, catching up on Doctor Who.
I've also started watching a new show, which is neither American or British! Surprising as it is, it's actually French. I say "surprising" because I watch(ed) one French show (now off the air, sadly), period. I started watching it in a round-about way, though. Les Revenants, based on a French film, is a show that has been praised a lot when it aired the past year. The story is set in a small town in the Alps where dead people come back to life, exactly as they were on the day they died (ie un-aged) and unaware that they are, in fact, deceased. Their loved ones have to deal with their return and they, themselves, have to deal with having been brought back to life, for no reason that they know/remember. Some characters seem to know more about the situation and to be some sort of connected to what's happening (I've only watched 2 episodes so far). Add to that some strange events occurring since the return of those people and you have the perfect recipe for a storyline filled with intrigues and (hopefully) twists :)
I couldn't watch it live because I don't have the network that aired it and I'm so not used to downloading French shows that it never really crossed my mind to do it (I never said I wasn't stupid every now and then). Then last week or so I heard of an US show that should premiere in the Fall, namely Resurrection.
Reading the summary of Resurrection gave me a strange feeling of déjà-vu, it's basically the same premise as Les Revenants and (at least) one of the characters looks very similar to a character in Les Revenants. Apparently it's based on novel written by Jason Mott (yet to be published) but I rest my case, it's still the same premise. In any case, it gave me the final push to download Les Revenants, see what it's like (and, hey, that way I'll be able to compare it with Resurrection whenever it airs).
Well, it is damn good! Haunting, disturbing, intriguing and touching. It's also very French in that nothing really happens? There's no big explosions or big fights, it's very subtle, intimist, very human, very "normal" (as normal as a show where dead people come back to life can be, that is lol). It doesn't make it any less creepy (quite the contrary, in fact, subtlety is always efficient) and it also makes the violence, when it happens, all the more shocking.
This could be of interest to those of you living in the UK as Channel 4 seems to have landed the rights to the show and plans on screening it sometime in the upcoming months. And it'll be subtitled instead of dubbed - hopefully you don't hate the sound of my language too much and you'll want to give it a try :)
I've also been interested in trying Hatufim, the show that Homeland is based on. Ironically enough, I found out French!tv was airing it, except I missed most of the season so I guess I'll have to resort to downloading the episodes. I'd have watched them live if I'd known, though, promise!
"Trou Normand" had some of the best lines ever! It was a real fest! I mean, "I'm your friend, Will, I don't care about the lives you save, I care about your life" was already incredible but then Hannibal decided to go even
The Hannibal-Will scenes were incredibly good, weren't they? Though it's par for the course with these two. Also, how lovely is it that Will's subconscious brings him to Hannibal? Hannibal is Will's safe place! It's both beautiful and, of course, tragic.
This is all so confusing, really, not knowing what's going on in Hannibal's head is driving me insane! I know it's the whole point and it sure doesn't make the bromance even remotely less interesting and beautiful but argh! It's stressful.
Even though it would defeat the purpose, I wish it were a bit easier to tell what's genuine interest and/or care for Will and what's just part of Hannibal's nefarious plan to... well, to what exactly? How does he picture the end of their story? Is he planning on killing Will at one point or is he just trying to lure him to the dark side? Or maybe he doesn't even know himself. He does seem baffled by their relationship, after all, and he's trying to make sense of what's going on. One thing is sure, he's quite talented at ensuring that Will is alienated from everyone who is not him. Or from Jack, more specifically.
The relationship with Abigail is only making things more confusing (I lap it up, mind you!). Episode 1x09 showed Hannibal playing house so to speak and effectively trapping Will, now they can really be the psycho daddies to their equally psychotic daughter (happy, creepy family!). Sharing a dark secret is a great way to unite people and isolate them from the rest of the world, after all. Well done, sir!
The whole "No-one can tell" scene was chilling because Hannibal seems to have won another round. Will is already on the verge of breaking and now Hannibal has added a whole new level to the fucked-up'ness that is Will's life. It's like another of his recipes; add a bit more dependency, simmer until the isolation is complete. Will is just breaking my heart, seriously. It's like he's completely alone and there's no one to save him. Now he had his trust and his confidence shattered and "the one good thing in his life is tainted" *criez*
Speaking of Will not being well. Jack needs to pay attention. I don't know whether he truly doesn't see what's right in front of him (and isn't he supposed to be a professional observer, btw?) or if he's just lying to himself and accepting Will's lies because it suits his purpose. I mean, he does refer to Will's instability when it suits him (re: his forbidding Will to join Abigail for the body identification). Admittedly, he did ask Will, point blank, about what was going on and if Will had a problem but, seriously, he's Will's superior and self-appointed protector (remember when you promised to protect him, Jack?) he should just be more careful...
I'm impressed by the choice not to have Alana and Will develop a relationship at this point of the narrative; in any other shows, Alana would have started an affair with Will despite her doubts and worries. It wouldn't have been healthy for either of them but it wouldn't have mattered. To have her admit her feelings but refusing to do anything about them for the moment sounds almost too healthy a decision for a tv show ;) The hug they shared was so sweet; Will seemed to truly be clinging to her.
And even though it wasn't a full-on hug, wasn't the scene when Hannibal puts his hand on Will's shoulder beautiful? Twisted too because it feels like he's somehow sealing the bargain between them with that gesture, adding the last little push Will needs, but at the same time is there any way he is genuinely trying to offer physical support to him? Argh, so many conflicted feelings!
I know we just had episode 1x09 but I so cannot wait for x10 and the rest, it's going to be epic! Incidentally, I like the idea of this episode as a trou normand, you know, used to re-awaken your appetite when you're having a long and heavy meal so that you can truly appreciate the last part of it instead of being too stuffed to savour anything ;)
Funny thing, I feel like I've been going through a show-watching revival of some sorts the past couple of months. For a while I basically didn't watch anything anymore, or very sporadically, but I'm back to really enjoying the sensation of sitting down to watch a tv show on a weekly basis (or, you know, daily, depending on the show). Well, no, it's a kind of pleasure I never forgot but it is still nice to be actively feeling it again.
Anyway, all that to say that I'm still watching POI every now and then as well as tuning in to Hannibal every week and, as of a couple of days ago, catching up on Doctor Who.
I've also started watching a new show, which is neither American or British! Surprising as it is, it's actually French. I say "surprising" because I watch(ed) one French show (now off the air, sadly), period. I started watching it in a round-about way, though. Les Revenants, based on a French film, is a show that has been praised a lot when it aired the past year. The story is set in a small town in the Alps where dead people come back to life, exactly as they were on the day they died (ie un-aged) and unaware that they are, in fact, deceased. Their loved ones have to deal with their return and they, themselves, have to deal with having been brought back to life, for no reason that they know/remember. Some characters seem to know more about the situation and to be some sort of connected to what's happening (I've only watched 2 episodes so far). Add to that some strange events occurring since the return of those people and you have the perfect recipe for a storyline filled with intrigues and (hopefully) twists :)
I couldn't watch it live because I don't have the network that aired it and I'm so not used to downloading French shows that it never really crossed my mind to do it (I never said I wasn't stupid every now and then). Then last week or so I heard of an US show that should premiere in the Fall, namely Resurrection.
Reading the summary of Resurrection gave me a strange feeling of déjà-vu, it's basically the same premise as Les Revenants and (at least) one of the characters looks very similar to a character in Les Revenants. Apparently it's based on novel written by Jason Mott (yet to be published) but I rest my case, it's still the same premise. In any case, it gave me the final push to download Les Revenants, see what it's like (and, hey, that way I'll be able to compare it with Resurrection whenever it airs).
Well, it is damn good! Haunting, disturbing, intriguing and touching. It's also very French in that nothing really happens? There's no big explosions or big fights, it's very subtle, intimist, very human, very "normal" (as normal as a show where dead people come back to life can be, that is lol). It doesn't make it any less creepy (quite the contrary, in fact, subtlety is always efficient) and it also makes the violence, when it happens, all the more shocking.
This could be of interest to those of you living in the UK as Channel 4 seems to have landed the rights to the show and plans on screening it sometime in the upcoming months. And it'll be subtitled instead of dubbed - hopefully you don't hate the sound of my language too much and you'll want to give it a try :)
I've also been interested in trying Hatufim, the show that Homeland is based on. Ironically enough, I found out French!tv was airing it, except I missed most of the season so I guess I'll have to resort to downloading the episodes. I'd have watched them live if I'd known, though, promise!
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Date: 2013-05-25 11:39 am (UTC)You and your PoI reviews! I dreamed I was in the show (a very classy self-insert, I'll have you know; I might have been related to The Machine, thinking about it :O); weird stuff was happening (I think aliens were involved, as they do); and I was observing how Finch and Reese only had eyes for each other. :D
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Date: 2013-05-25 09:01 pm (UTC)LOL Ok, I should say I'm sorry, I suppose, but this is just precious. I totally influenced your dreams! Talk about a cool super power ;)
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Date: 2013-05-25 02:07 pm (UTC)I lol'd :p
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Date: 2013-05-25 09:12 pm (UTC)Also, I am not recc'ing the show to you (as in, seriously, I am not) but in today's episode, I had the pleasant surprise to find out that one of my favourite characters is a lesbian. And what I enjoyed even more about the little bit of information about her was that it really was just that, a bit of information, nothing huge, it wasn't even the main point of the plot. Nice :)
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Date: 2013-05-25 05:55 pm (UTC)I couldn't help myself, I snickered when I read this :-)
I think the UK is much like Sweden in that people prefer foreign stuff to be subtitled and not dubbed. (Unless it's a kids' show of course.)
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Date: 2013-05-25 09:17 pm (UTC)About the subtitled version as opposed to the dubbed one, I envy those countries which have, by default, the original version of a show. We didn't even have a choice for the longest time in France. It's only in recent years that our networks decided to offer us both versions of the shows they broadcast (dubbed or subtitled) but even now they don't do it for all shows, sadly. So whenever a new show airs or whenever they show a film, I cross my fingers and click to see whether we have the choice or if it'll be in French only.
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Date: 2013-05-25 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-25 09:30 pm (UTC)This. Yes, this is one of the things I love with European shows,