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Carnivale... thoughts, and Alias recs
Mar. 23rd, 2005 05:37 pmYou know, instead of a proper Carnivale review, which still eludes me for I know I will be unfair in writing one, I offer this summary of the two last episodes in not quite Jacobean blank verse:
( Episode I0 )
( Episode 11 )
Thinking of it as a Jacobean revenge drama really helps. Meanwhile, Te watched season 1 - ah, season 1 - and come up with this wonderful fanfiction.
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And two Alias fanfiction recs: A Shift in the Wind, one of the products of the recent remix ficathon, and for my money far better than the original. Sydney in season 3, literature, memory and the present falling apart. A great character vignette.
On the more humourous side of things, I just found this priceless take on Weiss in season 4,
"Paranoia and Potential Fatal Agony", subtitled: The Trials and Tribulations of Falling for the Daughter of a Diabolical Genius. Just what I wanted to read ever since seen those priceless scenes with Sloane and Weiss in The Index. Have a taste via a quote:
Weiss had used to have a whole lot of pity for Mike – because he was dating Jack’s daughter, and all. Yeah, Sydney was a great girl – probably worth all of the agony, even – but Weiss wasn’t sure he would’ve kept pursuing that particular romance, if it meant he had to deal with the looming possibility of the ultimate formidable father-in-law. He’s still a little surprised that Jack didn’t just take Mike out back somewhere and shoot him for the whole marrying-Lauren-and-crushing-Syd’s-soul deal. Maybe the wife-killing created some deep spiritual bond, or something. But the thing is, Jack seems almost (and Weiss thinks this in the straightest and most masculine of ways, mind) appealing as of right now. Because Jack? Okay, yeah, scary as hell. But at least he hadn’t been the head of an evil organization who seemed to hold a whistle-while-you-work mentality about offing innocent people.
( Episode I0 )
( Episode 11 )
Thinking of it as a Jacobean revenge drama really helps. Meanwhile, Te watched season 1 - ah, season 1 - and come up with this wonderful fanfiction.
***
And two Alias fanfiction recs: A Shift in the Wind, one of the products of the recent remix ficathon, and for my money far better than the original. Sydney in season 3, literature, memory and the present falling apart. A great character vignette.
On the more humourous side of things, I just found this priceless take on Weiss in season 4,
"Paranoia and Potential Fatal Agony", subtitled: The Trials and Tribulations of Falling for the Daughter of a Diabolical Genius. Just what I wanted to read ever since seen those priceless scenes with Sloane and Weiss in The Index. Have a taste via a quote:
Weiss had used to have a whole lot of pity for Mike – because he was dating Jack’s daughter, and all. Yeah, Sydney was a great girl – probably worth all of the agony, even – but Weiss wasn’t sure he would’ve kept pursuing that particular romance, if it meant he had to deal with the looming possibility of the ultimate formidable father-in-law. He’s still a little surprised that Jack didn’t just take Mike out back somewhere and shoot him for the whole marrying-Lauren-and-crushing-Syd’s-soul deal. Maybe the wife-killing created some deep spiritual bond, or something. But the thing is, Jack seems almost (and Weiss thinks this in the straightest and most masculine of ways, mind) appealing as of right now. Because Jack? Okay, yeah, scary as hell. But at least he hadn’t been the head of an evil organization who seemed to hold a whistle-while-you-work mentality about offing innocent people.
