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shallowness) wrote2018-03-08 07:18 am
shallowness) wrote2018-03-08 07:18 am
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Strike - Career of Evil part 2
I did watch Strike live (over the returning Agents of SHIELD, but that was an extra-long ep), but I wanted to check a couple of things against the book, and haven't had a chance to post until now.
I still think this was a little too compressed and even if it is not true that the next book is going to be ginormous, they might want to think about a longer adaptation.
High points: Shanker vs doors (draw). Uncle Jed (I want Cormoran in Cornwall before the book series is done kthksbi). Robin’s brother mocking her accent. Tom Burke getting to do one, very briefly, since that has been Holliday Granger’s thing.
Although I knew the attacks were coming, both Robin and then Cormoran getting jumped made me gasp.
Most melodramatic moment: Matthew ‘Goodbye forever, Cormoran.’ Well, I laughed and went ‘uh, no.’
Elin got a random mention in between the repeated flashback of Leda talking about loving someone to Cormoran – inference being Robin. I thought they played the scene at the book very differently to how I remembered it, but I’ve checked and my memory was faultier (I thought Robin was angrier – maybe I’d been projecting what had come before onto the wedding scene?).
Shanker is such a shipper.
Even though I knew the killer was Laing and Laing was Ray, the transformation was incredible and we needed to see him switch personas. I thought the stuff about the sea holly was clearer here than in the book, although that may be because it’s the second iteration, not because of the presentation, per se. I have cause to doubt my memory!
Brittany! Justifying what Robin did! Well, Angel disclosing totally did also.
Robin picked the job first for what she wanted to do with the money! And Strike does call her his partner throughout, except when he goes all ‘I am your boss!’ and I have lost my temper with you for endangering yourself again, so I am sacking you for your own safety.
The Matt-Strike interactions were very amusing, and Cormoran’s restraint in never punching him admirable.
I still think this was a little too compressed and even if it is not true that the next book is going to be ginormous, they might want to think about a longer adaptation.
High points: Shanker vs doors (draw). Uncle Jed (I want Cormoran in Cornwall before the book series is done kthksbi). Robin’s brother mocking her accent. Tom Burke getting to do one, very briefly, since that has been Holliday Granger’s thing.
Although I knew the attacks were coming, both Robin and then Cormoran getting jumped made me gasp.
Most melodramatic moment: Matthew ‘Goodbye forever, Cormoran.’ Well, I laughed and went ‘uh, no.’
Elin got a random mention in between the repeated flashback of Leda talking about loving someone to Cormoran – inference being Robin. I thought they played the scene at the book very differently to how I remembered it, but I’ve checked and my memory was faultier (I thought Robin was angrier – maybe I’d been projecting what had come before onto the wedding scene?).
Shanker is such a shipper.
Even though I knew the killer was Laing and Laing was Ray, the transformation was incredible and we needed to see him switch personas. I thought the stuff about the sea holly was clearer here than in the book, although that may be because it’s the second iteration, not because of the presentation, per se. I have cause to doubt my memory!
Brittany! Justifying what Robin did! Well, Angel disclosing totally did also.
Robin picked the job first for what she wanted to do with the money! And Strike does call her his partner throughout, except when he goes all ‘I am your boss!’ and I have lost my temper with you for endangering yourself again, so I am sacking you for your own safety.
The Matt-Strike interactions were very amusing, and Cormoran’s restraint in never punching him admirable.