Fic, TV, Films.
Aug. 10th, 2011 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessI posted fic last night: Family Business, an Ondine (2009) fic. Summary: She found a family she liked and grew to be a part of it. I suspect that not many people will have seen the film, so here's the imdb page, and I encourage you to watch the trailer. Directed by Neil Jordan, starring Colin Farrell and, very importantly, DOPd by Christopher Doyle, it's about family, story-telling and has a folk tale come alive feeling to it. It's a lovely, beautiful film. I rewatched it last week and by the next day was writing up the snippets that make this ficlet, which moves on from canon. I'd have posted it sooner, but my time online was limited.
In between the posting, I watched The Hour episode 4 even more gutted that it wasn't about the Glorious Woman. There could be flashbacks!
We started off with the previouslies reminding us that they couldn't have cast Juliet Stevenson just to rap some glass. She seems to be in on the conspiracy or rather willing to help - Freddy's phone call was as much to those listening as her. She's certainly willing to put down her husband and his behaviour.
I was confused about how much time had passed. This can't have been the day after the night before and there was talk of the show being on for months. I suspect it's going to be a bit like Downton Abbey, the clues for the timeline are there if you deploy investigative skills.
So, the conspiracy continues. I wonder whether I should be thinking that Clarence is the Russian spy. That's what I thought when he burned Freddy's clue and though he now seems to be protecting his team - which is linked in to wanting to protect Bel and feeling he owes her, maybe? What he was saying doesn't tie in with Tom Kish's behaviour and last words. But Mrs Kish really worked for me, BTW.
Surer ground: the interpersonal. Glorious Woman Lix gently tries to burst Bel's bubble. Mrs Hector, who is still an idiot, but a sympathetic one, subtexts that she's adultering (because apparently Hector can't help himself or something) and as shown previously, Bel can decode fifties women's subtext. Freddy finds out in an awful way (and jealous!Hector meant it, I think. Or he is an idiot who genuinely grasped at 'oh, you're best friends'.) I liked that for a lot of the episode it was only a part of Freddy's problems - fear for his life coming first, I'm probably not as sympathetic as I should be to him (although if they want Wishaw and Garai to do Latin dancing again, they can go ahead) as he wasn't exactly telling Bel she was exquisite or sending her flowers OR LISTENING TO HER OR APOLOGISING WHEN HE SHOULD and mainly behaving like a boy, as he was so neatly described. Any way, I thought the director did a great job of preparing us for the Freddy/Lix comfort hook-up - because I noticed that Lix was in shot a lot - and until/if Bel finds out about it, as a workplace fling, it was probably the best he could hope for.
Garai had a storming scene pinning down Clarence. I would love to see her Queen Elizabeth I or equivalent.
Was this show written before the Arab Spring?
Also, I did go and see Super 8: not 'the film of the summer' like the posters are claiming, but entertaining enough.
In between the posting, I watched The Hour episode 4 even more gutted that it wasn't about the Glorious Woman. There could be flashbacks!
We started off with the previouslies reminding us that they couldn't have cast Juliet Stevenson just to rap some glass. She seems to be in on the conspiracy or rather willing to help - Freddy's phone call was as much to those listening as her. She's certainly willing to put down her husband and his behaviour.
I was confused about how much time had passed. This can't have been the day after the night before and there was talk of the show being on for months. I suspect it's going to be a bit like Downton Abbey, the clues for the timeline are there if you deploy investigative skills.
So, the conspiracy continues. I wonder whether I should be thinking that Clarence is the Russian spy. That's what I thought when he burned Freddy's clue and though he now seems to be protecting his team - which is linked in to wanting to protect Bel and feeling he owes her, maybe? What he was saying doesn't tie in with Tom Kish's behaviour and last words. But Mrs Kish really worked for me, BTW.
Surer ground: the interpersonal. Glorious Woman Lix gently tries to burst Bel's bubble. Mrs Hector, who is still an idiot, but a sympathetic one, subtexts that she's adultering (because apparently Hector can't help himself or something) and as shown previously, Bel can decode fifties women's subtext. Freddy finds out in an awful way (and jealous!Hector meant it, I think. Or he is an idiot who genuinely grasped at 'oh, you're best friends'.) I liked that for a lot of the episode it was only a part of Freddy's problems - fear for his life coming first, I'm probably not as sympathetic as I should be to him (although if they want Wishaw and Garai to do Latin dancing again, they can go ahead) as he wasn't exactly telling Bel she was exquisite or sending her flowers OR LISTENING TO HER OR APOLOGISING WHEN HE SHOULD and mainly behaving like a boy, as he was so neatly described. Any way, I thought the director did a great job of preparing us for the Freddy/Lix comfort hook-up - because I noticed that Lix was in shot a lot - and until/if Bel finds out about it, as a workplace fling, it was probably the best he could hope for.
Garai had a storming scene pinning down Clarence. I would love to see her Queen Elizabeth I or equivalent.
Was this show written before the Arab Spring?
Also, I did go and see Super 8: not 'the film of the summer' like the posters are claiming, but entertaining enough.
