Meanwhile, in another country

[selenak]

Saturday = Black Sails day! Ah, the joys and torments of open canon. I want to write meta about how the show uses the term "partners " pretty badly, and how nearly all its main characters either seek, confirm or reject partnership to one or several of the other main characters - the notable exceptions are Billy & anyone. There are so many useful quotes - from Max, from Anne, from Jack, from both Hamiltons (both times with Flint as the adressee, of course), from Eleanor - and how Silver's statement to Flint in 3.03 both compares and contrasts with the other examples. Also how that connects to John Silver's overall character development. But with the ongoing season delivering something meaty in terms of character scenes every episode, I think I'll restrain myself until the season is over.

Teaser trailer for season 3 of Penny Dreadful. The second season was a bit uneven, but I am still looking forward to the third one. Reunite the team, John Logan, plan your season arc a bit better, and never stop letting the amazing Eva Green chew up the scenery. Also, the fact there's a shot of the three Pyramids of Gizeh makes me hope again I shall finally get my walking Mummy. And it better be *spoilery character whose s2 fate I'm still disgruntled with*, though fine, I'll take other Mummys, too.


Any horror, no matter how gory, is better than current day reality. See also this article:

How America made Donald Trump Unstoppable: Quote from article, summing up the central argument: Trump found the flaw in the American Death Star. It doesn't know how to turn the cameras off, even when it's filming its own demise.

No kidding. He's getting more coverage than any other candidate, and the idea of him (or any of the other Republican candidates, given their voiced views and record) in the White House scares me almost more than our own right wing nutters on the rise. (Not because they're better, because the US President can do more global damage.)

Comments

[jae]

These New Right candidates in the U.S. remind me more of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands than they do of Germany's New Right, who always feel kind of bumbling and amateurish even when they're saying horrible things.

-J

[selenak]

Also of Marine Le Pen. As for our lot, the dangerous thing is that the Old Right has adopted half of their slogans by now...

[yvi]

I don't know, I drove through Sachsen-Anhalt today, which is having elections soon, and those posters were rather scary. It's not on a national level, but seeing how they openly talk about suppressing freedom of the press is, well, scary.

[jae]

I actually didn't say that I didn't find their views scary, I said they seemed bumbling and amateurish. So unless you're implying that the posters you saw made them seem more slick and put-together than they've been in the past, you're not arguing with what I said (and meant).

Did they seem slick and put-together? It's been an awfully long time since I've been to that part of Germany.

-J

[yvi]

The AfD seems very slick and put-together.

[jae]

Interesting. That's definitely new-to-me.

-J

[yvi]

From their posters and how they present themselves to the people who might elect them, that is. If you follow news, sure, there's a lot of infighting going on and the Wahlprogramm is ridiculous. But they do manage to put on a rather professional face for the people who don't follow politics that much, making them look like a real alternative.

[jae]

Yeah, that suggests that they've hired some people who know what they're doing, at the very least.

-J

[saturnofthemoon]

Donald Trump is indeed terrifying, he reminds me of a leader from a dystopian novel. I'm hoping to run off to Canada or some country in Europe if he gets elected.

[selenak]

Be careful which country in Europe you choose. Poland is busy abolishing democracy, Hungary has already done so, France has Le Front National and Marine Le Pen on the rise, and in Germany we're currently torn between volunteers and people torching houses for refugees, so to speak. Dark dark times...

[wee_warrior]

I know it's the era of remakes, but that is one I would gladly avoid. Wehret den Anfängen and all that.

[selenak]

Quite, but I'm afraid we're already past den Anfängen...

[wee_warrior]

All too true. I wasn't expecting all the people who genuinely want to help, though, that gives me hope. If only we manage to keep being more like them, and less like the others.

[ratcreature]

The main problem with running is that by the time you realize you need to be going, nobody else will let you in. :(

[saturnofthemoon]

True.

[wee_warrior]

Looking at Trump and everything else that is happening in the world, I still maintain that we live in an undiscovered Kafka novel.

Teaser trailer for season 3 of Penny Dreadful. The second season was a bit uneven, but I am still looking forward to the third one. Reunite the team, John Logan, plan your season arc a bit better, and never stop letting the amazing Eva Green chew up the scenery. Also, the fact there's a shot of the three Pyramids of Gizeh makes me hope again I shall finally get my walking Mummy. And it better be *spoilery character whose s2 fate I'm still disgruntled with*, though fine, I'll take other Mummys, too.

I'm pretty sure Victor is friends - or possibly "friends" - with Doctor Jekyll, since they have scene snippets together. Wonder how they know each other. University buddies?

[selenak]

University buddies is as good an explanation as any. (I'm sure Dr. Moreau was in their year, too.) I'm curious how they'll do Jekyll & Hyde, since Alan Moore was an obvious inspiration but otoh his solution was to get rid of Jekyll early on and make it all Hyde, with Hyde being somewhat tamed by his respect for Mina. Given the show already seems to be doing that with the Creature and Vanessa, I doubt they'll go this road. The other problem with Hyde is that he's no more threatening than your avarage vicious human being, which after facing vampires, witches and the devil himself would be an anticlimax, so they can't use him purely as an antagonist, either...

[wee_warrior]

From information on press releases, I wouldn't be too surprised if we'll get some form of Dr. Moreau this year as well (maybe their class has their five year anniversary, or something like that). There is apparently a zoologist in the cast now, and he seems to be played by Dexter's brother. They are also doing a Garrett Dillahunt with Patti LuPone, she'll be playing Vanessa's psychiatrist, an American(!) named Dr. Seward(!!).

I think their Jekyll is definitely going to be different. The actor is partly of Pakistani descent and he's quite young, so they've already uprooted the usual idea of the good doctor a bit with the casting. (You might know him, btw, he was on Spooks. Shazad Latif?)

[selenak]

Oh yes, I know him! Well, that should be interesting. So basically, their Jekyll is like Gandhi or Nehru, i.e. young upper class Indian going to Britain for their university education, interesting. Maybe he's secretly for Indian independence, too.

Female Dr. Seward who is a lookalike of Joan: awesome idea! Can't wait.