selenak

Before I finally got my hand on the s4 dvds, I rewatched an s2 episode, Four Days Out, and this reminded me of how I love the use of colour in this show. Because the visual contrast was striking and going with the narrative content; the yellow and orange desert colours in Four Days Out (not that the show ever pretends what the characters do is warm and fuzzy or excusable, but from their own pov, this is a point of bonding, revealing of truths, establishing trust even), the stark red and blue of the superlab (and elsewhere, but it's especially glaring in the season opener where a good deal of the story takes place), primarly colours that never mix in said lab, with a sense of disconnection and isolation. Come the season finale, though, we're in for an interesting mixture of both colour schemes; not quite in the desert yellow and orange, nor stuck with the primary colours any longer.

All of which to say that I hope they got some sort of award for their cinematography (or whatever the English word for the tv equivalent is) in addition to the acting and writing.

( On to the review proper! )