From Berkshire to Atlantis
Oct. 8th, 2013 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessLast night was iPlayer night.
I nearly forgot to catch up with The Wrong Mans
1.2 Bad Mans -
Sporadically amusing – good cast! – as our dynamic duo meet the criminal underworld and we find out a little more about how the phone got where it did. But the best thing? Dougray Scott and his Scottish, Scottish accent in that timbre. I didn’t care what he said, I just wanted him to keep talking. Sadly, he only talked in one scene.
Atlantis
1.2 A Girl By Any Other Name -
MEDUSA <3
I don’t see why a show that plays mythology blender (even I knew Jason was being Theseus last week) can’t dodge Medusa becoming a snake-haired scary person who turns everyone to stone. It would be much better to have her keep on being awesome and clever and determined. I was rooting for her from the moment she was digging her way out of her cell, trying to rescue herself, back when I thought she was Demetria, and that wasn’t the least of her resourcefulness or kindness to the dying father. AND there was the way she accepted Jason’s decision to help Demetria and helped him because he’d saved her life. She deserves to carry on having adventures that she faces by being resourceful! And for her to be the one who saved Jason by killing the high priestess who had wronged her so much, and may have wronged her some more? Possibly concussing her would have been smarter, but that's the nature of this show.
Otherwise those Dionysian ladies and satyrs (I didn’t think satyrs looked like that!) were properly creepy. So, we needed the main three to bring light entertainment, which they did. I find Pythagoras so endearing.
It feels rushed – I could have done with a scene where Jason asked the first maid to help him (I don’t actually remember her from the first episode, but presume she knew him from that time) and I almost wish it didn’t bother with Jason struggling with his Destiny, because he should be struggling a lot more to get his head around what is now his life. He’s the hero, duh! That’s what he does anyway when he isn’t thinking. Mostly he seems okay with it and then he gets a little confused, when he should perhaps be freaking out.
Also, I presume his destiny is to save Atlantis, which is not what happened, show, so you can save Medusa. Simples.
At least in the middle of being enigmatic and with-holding, the Oracle tried to explain she was protecting him by not being clearer. Seers don’t normally do that.
She is so Jason's mother. She didn’t explicitly say his father is dead and I’m going to assume he’s a demi-god until it’s otherwise confirmed.
Duly noted that Princess Ariadne is respected by the servants for respecting kind acts, while King Minos likes ‘his herbs’ and doesn’t care how far the servants have to walk to fetch them.
Also, Jason and co. as a kind of A-team for Atlantis, known for their reputation? I could get behind that.
They never did sort out the frankincense that Hercules failed to guard... (I'm not sure if I'm confusing this with a Welsh legend, but was Atlantis drowned because of a sleeping watchman?)
On the one hand, Demetria was abducted into a cult that brainwashed her into carrying around hemlock and on the other, Jason deciding he knew what was best for her and was going to abduct her right back got up my nose too. Poor Demetria, no free will since she was sent to that forest.
But I didn't expect this show to go and introduce a cool recurring female character who I got very invested in by the end of the episode. But as Ariadne is set up as the good girl/Jason’s reward for being puppy-eyed, plus the first episode seemed so much about the men that the idea of having two or more named female characters wearing white hats seems radical, am I hoping against hope for the Oracle to be wrong about her cursed destiny and for Medusa to be allowed to carry on being awesome? (My fear is that she will be treated as I understand that Morgana was on Arthur.)
I nearly forgot to catch up with The Wrong Mans
1.2 Bad Mans -
Sporadically amusing – good cast! – as our dynamic duo meet the criminal underworld and we find out a little more about how the phone got where it did. But the best thing? Dougray Scott and his Scottish, Scottish accent in that timbre. I didn’t care what he said, I just wanted him to keep talking. Sadly, he only talked in one scene.
Atlantis
1.2 A Girl By Any Other Name -
MEDUSA <3
I don’t see why a show that plays mythology blender (even I knew Jason was being Theseus last week) can’t dodge Medusa becoming a snake-haired scary person who turns everyone to stone. It would be much better to have her keep on being awesome and clever and determined. I was rooting for her from the moment she was digging her way out of her cell, trying to rescue herself, back when I thought she was Demetria, and that wasn’t the least of her resourcefulness or kindness to the dying father. AND there was the way she accepted Jason’s decision to help Demetria and helped him because he’d saved her life. She deserves to carry on having adventures that she faces by being resourceful! And for her to be the one who saved Jason by killing the high priestess who had wronged her so much, and may have wronged her some more? Possibly concussing her would have been smarter, but that's the nature of this show.
Otherwise those Dionysian ladies and satyrs (I didn’t think satyrs looked like that!) were properly creepy. So, we needed the main three to bring light entertainment, which they did. I find Pythagoras so endearing.
It feels rushed – I could have done with a scene where Jason asked the first maid to help him (I don’t actually remember her from the first episode, but presume she knew him from that time) and I almost wish it didn’t bother with Jason struggling with his Destiny, because he should be struggling a lot more to get his head around what is now his life. He’s the hero, duh! That’s what he does anyway when he isn’t thinking. Mostly he seems okay with it and then he gets a little confused, when he should perhaps be freaking out.
Also, I presume his destiny is to save Atlantis, which is not what happened, show, so you can save Medusa. Simples.
At least in the middle of being enigmatic and with-holding, the Oracle tried to explain she was protecting him by not being clearer. Seers don’t normally do that.
She is so Jason's mother. She didn’t explicitly say his father is dead and I’m going to assume he’s a demi-god until it’s otherwise confirmed.
Duly noted that Princess Ariadne is respected by the servants for respecting kind acts, while King Minos likes ‘his herbs’ and doesn’t care how far the servants have to walk to fetch them.
Also, Jason and co. as a kind of A-team for Atlantis, known for their reputation? I could get behind that.
They never did sort out the frankincense that Hercules failed to guard... (I'm not sure if I'm confusing this with a Welsh legend, but was Atlantis drowned because of a sleeping watchman?)
On the one hand, Demetria was abducted into a cult that brainwashed her into carrying around hemlock and on the other, Jason deciding he knew what was best for her and was going to abduct her right back got up my nose too. Poor Demetria, no free will since she was sent to that forest.
But I didn't expect this show to go and introduce a cool recurring female character who I got very invested in by the end of the episode. But as Ariadne is set up as the good girl/Jason’s reward for being puppy-eyed, plus the first episode seemed so much about the men that the idea of having two or more named female characters wearing white hats seems radical, am I hoping against hope for the Oracle to be wrong about her cursed destiny and for Medusa to be allowed to carry on being awesome? (My fear is that she will be treated as I understand that Morgana was on Arthur.)
