Trying to get back into the fannish posting mindset

[selenak]

Back in Munich, and now posting on non-Mongolian matters again. :) Re: the Emmy nominations, I was stunned that Tatiana Maslany wasn't included, and also somewhat surprised at certain other choices (I mean, Emilia Clarke? For season 3? Of all the actresses of Game of Thrones?), but otoh, there was a pleasant surprise in the form of Vera Farmiglia getting nominated for her tour de force as Norma Bates in Bates Motel.

Now am I feeling just the teensiest weensiest bit of fannish Schadenfreude Bates Motel got an award and Hannibal did not? Go away, unworthy feeling! But I'm glad for Vera F. The show didn't get much publicity and it was really earned.

Also: Breaking Bad got several nominations again; in addition to the expected ones for Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul there was Anna Gunn for best supporting female, which means I can root for her and Ms. Farmiglia at the same time (she got nominated for best female lead), and makes me very happy indeed, because what she did with Skyler in the episode 51 alone was outstanding. Also, the boys already got their awards several times, and this might be her last shot for this particular role, so here is hoping.

Jonathan Banks also got nominated for best supporting, which makes me afraid he and Aaron Paul will cancel each other out; if I had to guess, I'd say they'll give it to Banks for sentimental reasons, though imo Aaron Paul's work was the more outstanding in s5, part the first.

Lastly: Downton Abbey? Why?

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[legionseagle]

"Downton Abbey? Why?" is the little black dress of questions of existential bafflement. For what purpose does this series exist? Out of what black pit of vile imaginings did it crawl? Why did no-one nominate Timothy Carlton for an award simply on the strength of the great tidal wave of relief and sympathy at the point when his character sentenced Bates to death?

[gehayi]

Re: the Emmy nominations, I was stunned that Tatiana Maslany wasn't included

I'm not. It's a new show and hasn't gotten much air time yet. I don't think it even HAD aired yet when people were nominating shows for Emmys.

also somewhat surprised at certain other choices (I mean, Emilia Clarke? For season 3? Of all the actresses of Game of Thrones?)

Probably because of all the female characters, she came the closest to having a distinct and dramatic character arc. Michele Fairley was outstanding in the Red Wedding, but her character was gutted by the show, with most of her canonical lines going to Talisa or being outright cut. Lena Headley's Cersei isn't doing much right now; Maisie Smith's Arya is doing precisely what she's been doing since Ned was killed (being an increasingly angry and homicidal fugitive who's trying to run somewhere safe), as is Sophie Turner's Sansa (being a hostage and a pawn for the Lannisters). Brienne of Tarth, Missandei, Asha Greyjoy, Margaery Tyrell, Osha, Ygritte and Melisandre are secondary characters. Plus I don't think that the Emmy nominators realized how problematic the Mhysa episode was.

Now am I feeling just the teensiest weensiest bit of fannish Schadenfreude Bates Motel got an award and Hannibal did not? Go away, unworthy feeling! But I'm glad for Vera F. The show didn't get much publicity and it was really earned.

Okay, I'm VERY glad that Hannibal didn't win. (Nothing against the show, which I haven't seen. I'm just tired of serial killers being treated as cultured, refined and intelligent gentlemen who just happen to slaughter, mutilate and eat young girls.)

[skywaterblue]

That last line, so true.

[skywaterblue]

I'm a little worried that "House of Cards" may actually win due to the hot newness and the relative weakness of the other candidates for best dramatic show. It isn't very good at all if you stop to think about it, but "Mad Men" was a flawed season (I think it'll hold better together in retrospect when the show ends because it does a lot of necessary wind-up, but...) and "Homeland" and "Downton" are both pretty meh.

I probably shouldn't be worried. Surely "Breaking Bad" will take it during its goodbye lap around the awards, or "Game of Thrones" which had a genuinely strong season in my opinion.