Briefly, for lack of time...
Mar. 18th, 2015 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenak...two catching up reviews in one entry:
Once upon a Time: I liked Maleficent, am glad we finally, as I hoped, got the backstory for her and Regina, but am underwhelmed on the Aurora scene. Granted, there isn't much you can do to make pricking someone with a spindle climactic, but emotional involvement would help. This is the show which made the Snow takes the apple and takes a bite scene meaningful and climactic in s1, because a) Snow does it knowing what the apple will do to her, and who is giving it, and b) it comes directly after Regina told her what happened to Daniel. It's a scene coming out of the relationship between Snow and Regina as shown to the audience via flashbacks in s1. Whereas this Malificent not only has no relationship with Aurora, but it looks to me as if she didn't have one with Briar Rose (in the show Aurora's mother, instead of Aurora herself), either, because her "you made sure of that, didn't you" to Stefan sounded as if OuaT is going to take a page out of the recent Angelina Jolie Malificent book and make Stefan into the villain who betrayed Malificent first, thereby starting the whole thing. Only the Jolie Malificent did have a relationship with Aurora thereafter. Aaaanyway, other than that, I'm on board with Regina/Maleficent scenes, and I use the slash advisedly, because they certainly spark, fiery image inevitable.
In other news, I am distressed at the dumbing down of Belle because I certainly twigged Hook was Rumple in disguise (and after the dagger), and she should have, too, at the latest once the possibility of him being back in town was brought up. Also, the single rose in front of her doorstep was a really heavy hint. (Oh, and in a compliment to the actor, he played Rumple!Hook different from usual Kilian, very Robert Carlyle-esque in the way he looks at Belle.) But even if Hook were Hook, I don't see why he should be better at hiding? Oh, and while we're talking Belle, so apparantly as opposed to my guess Belle/Will is supposed to be a real thing. In which case I disapprove of off screen started relationsips, especially since poor Michael Socha seems to be paid for silent appearances on this show (I think he got about four lines so far, and those were spoken when Robin Hood was still in town), which is a waste of a fine and endearing actor. And I realise the majority of viewers won't be familiar with the spin-off, but I really want to know about Ana, curse it.
Call the Midwife: Woe! Delia suffering the accident just when she and Patsy were on the verge of moving in together was gut wrenching. Also came with the not-limited-to-the1960s-bitterness for gay lovers of Patsy, since she's not family and isn't recognized as Delia's significant other, not being told anything in hospital, and treated like an outsider. Mind you, I have hope, because Delia isn't dead, and amnesia on tv is usually a temporary thing. Or, since this is a show that by its premise treats medical questions more seriously than usual tv, maybe Delia can learn to know Patsy again, hard as that would be. (Has flasbhacks to underrated movie "Recovery", starring David Tenannt and Sarah Parrish, in which he also loses much of his memory via terrible accident, and doesn't regain it, and it's awful for his wife because the man she loved is and isn't gone; even the grinding reality of him making every day mistakes in simple routines and being unable to function normally due to his brain damage is depicted without a magical fixit.)
Lovely to see Chummy again. The plot with Fred's daughter first opposing, then, after seeing she behaved selfishly (albeit from unhealed grief for her mother), supporting his remarriage was predictable, but the execution worked for me. And Trixie at last reaches out for help, and gets it! What a relief.
Once upon a Time: I liked Maleficent, am glad we finally, as I hoped, got the backstory for her and Regina, but am underwhelmed on the Aurora scene. Granted, there isn't much you can do to make pricking someone with a spindle climactic, but emotional involvement would help. This is the show which made the Snow takes the apple and takes a bite scene meaningful and climactic in s1, because a) Snow does it knowing what the apple will do to her, and who is giving it, and b) it comes directly after Regina told her what happened to Daniel. It's a scene coming out of the relationship between Snow and Regina as shown to the audience via flashbacks in s1. Whereas this Malificent not only has no relationship with Aurora, but it looks to me as if she didn't have one with Briar Rose (in the show Aurora's mother, instead of Aurora herself), either, because her "you made sure of that, didn't you" to Stefan sounded as if OuaT is going to take a page out of the recent Angelina Jolie Malificent book and make Stefan into the villain who betrayed Malificent first, thereby starting the whole thing. Only the Jolie Malificent did have a relationship with Aurora thereafter. Aaaanyway, other than that, I'm on board with Regina/Maleficent scenes, and I use the slash advisedly, because they certainly spark, fiery image inevitable.
In other news, I am distressed at the dumbing down of Belle because I certainly twigged Hook was Rumple in disguise (and after the dagger), and she should have, too, at the latest once the possibility of him being back in town was brought up. Also, the single rose in front of her doorstep was a really heavy hint. (Oh, and in a compliment to the actor, he played Rumple!Hook different from usual Kilian, very Robert Carlyle-esque in the way he looks at Belle.) But even if Hook were Hook, I don't see why he should be better at hiding? Oh, and while we're talking Belle, so apparantly as opposed to my guess Belle/Will is supposed to be a real thing. In which case I disapprove of off screen started relationsips, especially since poor Michael Socha seems to be paid for silent appearances on this show (I think he got about four lines so far, and those were spoken when Robin Hood was still in town), which is a waste of a fine and endearing actor. And I realise the majority of viewers won't be familiar with the spin-off, but I really want to know about Ana, curse it.
Call the Midwife: Woe! Delia suffering the accident just when she and Patsy were on the verge of moving in together was gut wrenching. Also came with the not-limited-to-the1960s-bitterness for gay lovers of Patsy, since she's not family and isn't recognized as Delia's significant other, not being told anything in hospital, and treated like an outsider. Mind you, I have hope, because Delia isn't dead, and amnesia on tv is usually a temporary thing. Or, since this is a show that by its premise treats medical questions more seriously than usual tv, maybe Delia can learn to know Patsy again, hard as that would be. (Has flasbhacks to underrated movie "Recovery", starring David Tenannt and Sarah Parrish, in which he also loses much of his memory via terrible accident, and doesn't regain it, and it's awful for his wife because the man she loved is and isn't gone; even the grinding reality of him making every day mistakes in simple routines and being unable to function normally due to his brain damage is depicted without a magical fixit.)
Lovely to see Chummy again. The plot with Fred's daughter first opposing, then, after seeing she behaved selfishly (albeit from unhealed grief for her mother), supporting his remarriage was predictable, but the execution worked for me. And Trixie at last reaches out for help, and gets it! What a relief.
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Date: 2015-03-18 01:41 pm (UTC)Yes, the Maleficent&Aurora flashback was a bit boring but I was so happy to see the actress who plays Aurora back, even for a brief cameo, I didn't even mind much. And Maleficent&Regina were amazing! *_*
/Whereas this Malificent not only has no relationship with Aurora, but it looks to me as if she didn't have one with Briar Rose/ - I don't know, I got the impression Maleficent and Aurora's mother did have a relationship of some kind, only it was going to be dwelt upon in subsequent flashbacks - but that might have been my wishful thinking..