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shallownessLast night, I had some time to fill before OUAT started, but not enough to squeeze in a sitcom – who decreed that they have to be thirty minutes (including adverts) anyway? - so I watched some The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. It’s been a while.
Ep 71 Mr Bennet’s Christmas Train Extravaganza
Was blah except for ‘is Lydia more Lydia than usual?’ and realising that for trip following the soldiers, read a party at home. Also, their faces!
Party Time
Finally! Mary and Lizzie together! Contrast Lizzie’s casual thoughtlessness, forgetting Mary was at the party and clearly not watching Lydia’s videos with the fact that busy with studying and her Eddie she may be, Mary has evidently kept right up with Lizzie’s. Loved Mary’s BAD ACTING interspersed with commentary. And Lizzie got well in touch with her inner sleaze to play George. The Lydia shouting from outside the room was...cartoon-y, but the intro made me chortle.
2 + 1
Ouch, Lydia. Of course, having her be aware of what Darcy and Caroline said about her adds another dimension. And Lizzie’s continued thoughtlessness – in mitigation she’s tired and Lydia’s party demands were unreasonable and typical – about how Lydia might take it and about Lydia in general is probably going to add to how bad it’s going to get. I felt for them both there.
The age shift up is interesting. I took LBD Lydia to be closer to book!Lydia’s age, partly because the American use of ‘school’ for university-level education still doesn’t always register with me, and the legal drinking age here is younger so my cultural markers are different. Bless the Bennets and their privilege, only one aspect of which is that two – formerly three – sisters in their twenties could stay at home, stretch out their education (Lizzie, who at least loves her subject) and youth (Lydia – who does come off as younger than 20 in so many ways.)
I need to watch the next episodes sooner, but I've been so busy catching up on stuff that's airing now. Revenge is the only show I'm still lagging on because of Easter; everything else I need to catch up on is because of scheduling.
OUAT 2.02
Nice establishing episode. I liked that they had practically everyone there, including Jefferson/Mad Hatter – living up to the mad part - and August/Pinnochio – although the end was touching, Gepetto forgot about his son for a good while to lose his head there.
Ruby was 75% awesome, let her be 100% awesome, show.
I don’t think I’d want David/Charming/James or whatever he’s called looking after my kid either. It bugged me that Regina called him Charming. I know it was the show setting up the Prince Charming-David dichotomy, but that was Snow’s nickname for him. Would Regina use it? I don’t remember, she may have in the Enchanted Forest flashbacks in season 1.
But he did sort of forget about Henry, didn’t engage with Henry’s desire to help or make sure he was okay, which Emma would have. I know, he’s illequipped to deal with a kid of Henry’s age, but the show needs to work harder on their relationship than ‘look at them eat together in the same way because they’re blood relatives!’
Lana Parilla acted up a storm, I was always aware of where Regina was at in her emotional development, and if she didn’t look like a younger Regina, you felt aggrieved that the close-up was shattering the illusion she was performing so hard to create. Meanwhile, I do not know why Carlyle was so English as Rumpelstiltskin in flashback. I am fascinated that he knew Regina as a baby – what deal did Cora and/or Henry make? They implied very thoroughly that Regina is following the same path as her mother. And although she went through the looking glass (as much of a portal as a hat, only automatically self-destructing, I note) of course Cora is in what’s left of the EF.
I only realised about half way that they were probably splitting up the stories a la season 3 of Farscape, with Storybrooke being Moya. Interesting rules of magic – if Emma had some, shouldn’t Henry, although where did Emma get hers from as Snow and Charming seem unmagical? Or is it True Love again?
I have no sympathy for Rumpelstiltskin in being unable to go look for his son (yes, got the parallelism with Regina-Henry) thanks to his spell. Well, we don’t know that that is what caused them to be stuck there. But Henry and Pinnochio could probably go. Is the mystery man in New Your Baelfire? If so, they’ll have to come up with a reason for time passing differently.
I’m not sure what I think about the characters dealing with their two identities rattling around in their heads. I’m not sure that the show knows either. Is all the David is wet knocking acknowledgement of criticism?
Ep 71 Mr Bennet’s Christmas Train Extravaganza
Was blah except for ‘is Lydia more Lydia than usual?’ and realising that for trip following the soldiers, read a party at home. Also, their faces!
Party Time
Finally! Mary and Lizzie together! Contrast Lizzie’s casual thoughtlessness, forgetting Mary was at the party and clearly not watching Lydia’s videos with the fact that busy with studying and her Eddie she may be, Mary has evidently kept right up with Lizzie’s. Loved Mary’s BAD ACTING interspersed with commentary. And Lizzie got well in touch with her inner sleaze to play George. The Lydia shouting from outside the room was...cartoon-y, but the intro made me chortle.
2 + 1
Ouch, Lydia. Of course, having her be aware of what Darcy and Caroline said about her adds another dimension. And Lizzie’s continued thoughtlessness – in mitigation she’s tired and Lydia’s party demands were unreasonable and typical – about how Lydia might take it and about Lydia in general is probably going to add to how bad it’s going to get. I felt for them both there.
The age shift up is interesting. I took LBD Lydia to be closer to book!Lydia’s age, partly because the American use of ‘school’ for university-level education still doesn’t always register with me, and the legal drinking age here is younger so my cultural markers are different. Bless the Bennets and their privilege, only one aspect of which is that two – formerly three – sisters in their twenties could stay at home, stretch out their education (Lizzie, who at least loves her subject) and youth (Lydia – who does come off as younger than 20 in so many ways.)
I need to watch the next episodes sooner, but I've been so busy catching up on stuff that's airing now. Revenge is the only show I'm still lagging on because of Easter; everything else I need to catch up on is because of scheduling.
OUAT 2.02
Nice establishing episode. I liked that they had practically everyone there, including Jefferson/Mad Hatter – living up to the mad part - and August/Pinnochio – although the end was touching, Gepetto forgot about his son for a good while to lose his head there.
Ruby was 75% awesome, let her be 100% awesome, show.
I don’t think I’d want David/Charming/James or whatever he’s called looking after my kid either. It bugged me that Regina called him Charming. I know it was the show setting up the Prince Charming-David dichotomy, but that was Snow’s nickname for him. Would Regina use it? I don’t remember, she may have in the Enchanted Forest flashbacks in season 1.
But he did sort of forget about Henry, didn’t engage with Henry’s desire to help or make sure he was okay, which Emma would have. I know, he’s illequipped to deal with a kid of Henry’s age, but the show needs to work harder on their relationship than ‘look at them eat together in the same way because they’re blood relatives!’
Lana Parilla acted up a storm, I was always aware of where Regina was at in her emotional development, and if she didn’t look like a younger Regina, you felt aggrieved that the close-up was shattering the illusion she was performing so hard to create. Meanwhile, I do not know why Carlyle was so English as Rumpelstiltskin in flashback. I am fascinated that he knew Regina as a baby – what deal did Cora and/or Henry make? They implied very thoroughly that Regina is following the same path as her mother. And although she went through the looking glass (as much of a portal as a hat, only automatically self-destructing, I note) of course Cora is in what’s left of the EF.
I only realised about half way that they were probably splitting up the stories a la season 3 of Farscape, with Storybrooke being Moya. Interesting rules of magic – if Emma had some, shouldn’t Henry, although where did Emma get hers from as Snow and Charming seem unmagical? Or is it True Love again?
I have no sympathy for Rumpelstiltskin in being unable to go look for his son (yes, got the parallelism with Regina-Henry) thanks to his spell. Well, we don’t know that that is what caused them to be stuck there. But Henry and Pinnochio could probably go. Is the mystery man in New Your Baelfire? If so, they’ll have to come up with a reason for time passing differently.
I’m not sure what I think about the characters dealing with their two identities rattling around in their heads. I’m not sure that the show knows either. Is all the David is wet knocking acknowledgement of criticism?
