It's the other snarky 18th century sage
Mar. 14th, 2024 06:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakThoughts:
1) Damn, and I wanted to save money and take a break from Apple because I have to resubscribe to Paramount in April when Star Trek: Discovery comes back.
2) Which one is Beaumarchais? Will Pierre finally get some respect? (cahn who has read Proud Destiny knows what I mean. *g*)
3) More seroiusly, I wonder whether the miniseries solved what I think was Feuchtwanger's problem in that novel, which is that Franklin works better as a supporting character, snarking epigramms at the main character(s), than he does as a main character. It reminds me that I disagreed with most of fandom about wanting The Methos Chronicles as a Highlander spin-off series, despite loving the character. Or because of it. Because in my experience, if you put a morally ambiguous trickster character (or for that matter a snarky mentor character) in the central role, instead of using him as a foil, he'll lose some of the charm and most of the ambiguity and unpredictability.
1) Damn, and I wanted to save money and take a break from Apple because I have to resubscribe to Paramount in April when Star Trek: Discovery comes back.
2) Which one is Beaumarchais? Will Pierre finally get some respect? (
cahn who has read Proud Destiny knows what I mean. *g*) 3) More seroiusly, I wonder whether the miniseries solved what I think was Feuchtwanger's problem in that novel, which is that Franklin works better as a supporting character, snarking epigramms at the main character(s), than he does as a main character. It reminds me that I disagreed with most of fandom about wanting The Methos Chronicles as a Highlander spin-off series, despite loving the character. Or because of it. Because in my experience, if you put a morally ambiguous trickster character (or for that matter a snarky mentor character) in the central role, instead of using him as a foil, he'll lose some of the charm and most of the ambiguity and unpredictability.
