Strike - Career of Evil part 1
Mar. 3rd, 2018 10:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessI haven't been posting or around much because my Freeview box played up (I thought it was my remote, but no), which means I'm still catching up on TV. Furthermore, I fell down a figurative rabbit hole (drawerfic) and I'm not sure I'm out yet. And the warnings for this show made it not the sort of show you want to be eating along to. But anyway, there has been snow in my neck of the woods, and I got around to watching this.
After discussing this with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thesmallhobbit, I’m starting to think they should have stuck to three parters for these adaptations, because there’s a lot of stuff to get through: Robin’s no good bad day that started with a severed leg being delivered to her and ended with finding out Matthew cheated on her at the lowest ebb in her life. She seemed to be drinking wine every other scene is all I’m saying. Cormoran had to remember the three guys from his past he thought might well have sent Robin as his proxy a severed leg. Except it got worse as he was implicated in the killing of the girl we’d seen before the credits, plus someone was following Robin. Maybe it would have been good to have some time to let things sit.
I think they handled the flashbacks well televisually, any problems were from the novel’s structure and having to compress everything. I didn’t miss the stuff from the killer’s POV. It changes things that they’ve dropped Cormoran’s relationship with Elin.
In the middle of it all, soothingly, was the Robin and Cormoran road trip, when she was not engaged, fact. And they were not having UST or directing their energies on the severed leg case, oh no. In their defence, it was having a terrible impact on business.
But his concern for her, and the limitations his disability put on his protectiveness, versus her need to prove that she's the toughest survivor there ever was, when a lot of the stuff they were coming across was disturbing. That moment he awkwardly tried to reach out to comfort her over the pub table, aborted. The way the clerk assumed, and Isla and Robin's mother hinted. The way they shot the neighbouring rooms. The sweetie in the car, and the general inteaction. LOVELY.
Lots of juxtapositions via editing, and Strike trying to imply that Matthew was as bad as his three abusive suspects, leading to my coming in Matthew’s defence there. He is a moron and Robin shouldn’t be with him, but, come on.
The director liked using structures behind buildings, and, as ever, the geography plays a big part in this adaptation, while the sense of a particular time does not.
The scene with Shanker was fun – I don’t remember if it was quite like that in the book.
The one advantage of not having caught up with it until now is that I have less time to wait for part 2. And then after that...
I've just checked. We have a title, but no publication date for book 4.
After discussing this with
thesmallhobbit, I’m starting to think they should have stuck to three parters for these adaptations, because there’s a lot of stuff to get through: Robin’s no good bad day that started with a severed leg being delivered to her and ended with finding out Matthew cheated on her at the lowest ebb in her life. She seemed to be drinking wine every other scene is all I’m saying. Cormoran had to remember the three guys from his past he thought might well have sent Robin as his proxy a severed leg. Except it got worse as he was implicated in the killing of the girl we’d seen before the credits, plus someone was following Robin. Maybe it would have been good to have some time to let things sit.I think they handled the flashbacks well televisually, any problems were from the novel’s structure and having to compress everything. I didn’t miss the stuff from the killer’s POV. It changes things that they’ve dropped Cormoran’s relationship with Elin.
In the middle of it all, soothingly, was the Robin and Cormoran road trip, when she was not engaged, fact. And they were not having UST or directing their energies on the severed leg case, oh no. In their defence, it was having a terrible impact on business.
But his concern for her, and the limitations his disability put on his protectiveness, versus her need to prove that she's the toughest survivor there ever was, when a lot of the stuff they were coming across was disturbing. That moment he awkwardly tried to reach out to comfort her over the pub table, aborted. The way the clerk assumed, and Isla and Robin's mother hinted. The way they shot the neighbouring rooms. The sweetie in the car, and the general inteaction. LOVELY.
Lots of juxtapositions via editing, and Strike trying to imply that Matthew was as bad as his three abusive suspects, leading to my coming in Matthew’s defence there. He is a moron and Robin shouldn’t be with him, but, come on.
The director liked using structures behind buildings, and, as ever, the geography plays a big part in this adaptation, while the sense of a particular time does not.
The scene with Shanker was fun – I don’t remember if it was quite like that in the book.
The one advantage of not having caught up with it until now is that I have less time to wait for part 2. And then after that...
I've just checked. We have a title, but no publication date for book 4.
