Writing and watching
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shallownessI posted Blood and Flame (OFC/OMC, teen, Victorian setting and another original ficlet.) It’s very much a lockdown fic. Influences on it include: Belgravia gave the setting. It had occurred to me that lockdown might lead to a baby boom (before the meme went around). I’d been thinking about how lockdown was interfering with helpful traditions around death and grief, making difficult situations worse. Names may have been influenced by Snow White and the Huntsman, in hindsight, but then I was watching RotK and heard the phrase ‘this good earth’ which I’d already written.
Killing Eve - 3.5 Are You From Pinner?
Gripping episode. Villanelle went home to a sunny ‘Mother Russia’ and we stayed with her as she found her family. It was this mix of weird and humdrum we’ve come to expect but in a Russian setting (where they spoke fairly amazing English without having had an Anna to teach them, but hey, they had Elton John, documentaries and Google). Took a while to grasp the family dynamic, who was full blood, who was half and who was step.
The Harvest Festival was like an English one in its eccentricity, cooking competitions and half-serious competitions (though dung flinging was a local flavour). We got the girl gang vibe of the girlfriend and backing dancers, and Vilanelle threatening all the alpha females. And the brilliance of true believers of David Icke’s conspiracies in a show that has the Twelve.
Villanelle/Oksana’s questions kept getting rebuffed. The Crocodile Rock scene was brilliant, epitomising her displacement from this family and maybe humanity, but she cut her usual weirdly sympathetic figure, even as she stopped her little half-brother from hurting himself because he freaked her out more than an overt desire to stop him from hurting himself – though there were maybe more hints of emotional connection under that, even with Pyotr and definitely the mother, who was controlling, wasn’t a saint… And yes, I can believe Vilanelle was a difficult, even dangerous child, (before the burnt a floor or two of the orphanage) but her mother was chilling too. And so questions of where Villanelle came from were answered.
Jodie Comer was excellent.
Of course, this pushes back Eve’s reaction to Niko’s death, but this formal experimentation speaks of confidence. (When will we get a musical episode?)
Killing Eve - 3.5 Are You From Pinner?
Gripping episode. Villanelle went home to a sunny ‘Mother Russia’ and we stayed with her as she found her family. It was this mix of weird and humdrum we’ve come to expect but in a Russian setting (where they spoke fairly amazing English without having had an Anna to teach them, but hey, they had Elton John, documentaries and Google). Took a while to grasp the family dynamic, who was full blood, who was half and who was step.
The Harvest Festival was like an English one in its eccentricity, cooking competitions and half-serious competitions (though dung flinging was a local flavour). We got the girl gang vibe of the girlfriend and backing dancers, and Vilanelle threatening all the alpha females. And the brilliance of true believers of David Icke’s conspiracies in a show that has the Twelve.
Villanelle/Oksana’s questions kept getting rebuffed. The Crocodile Rock scene was brilliant, epitomising her displacement from this family and maybe humanity, but she cut her usual weirdly sympathetic figure, even as she stopped her little half-brother from hurting himself because he freaked her out more than an overt desire to stop him from hurting himself – though there were maybe more hints of emotional connection under that, even with Pyotr and definitely the mother, who was controlling, wasn’t a saint… And yes, I can believe Vilanelle was a difficult, even dangerous child, (before the burnt a floor or two of the orphanage) but her mother was chilling too. And so questions of where Villanelle came from were answered.
Jodie Comer was excellent.
Of course, this pushes back Eve’s reaction to Niko’s death, but this formal experimentation speaks of confidence. (When will we get a musical episode?)
