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^He's the actor who was the king of Sweden in The Great.
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CaptainWacky
I want to smell dark matter
Thoughts on 2.4 to 2.6 ('Brief Lives') spoilers, etc.
Again, I probably should have read the comics again to refresh my memory but I haven't really felt like touching them in the last year. I think they changed a lot more here than in 'Season of Mists'. First of all my biggest fucking complaint: taking out Matthew teaching Delirium how to drive ias absolutely criminal. Maybe they thought it would encourage crazy people to try to drive cars with the help of a talking raven or something, I don't know. But it's fun, it should have been in there. In general they toned Delirium down. I think partly because they didn't want her to seem too much like a child? Or they didn't want to make it look like they're making fun of the mentally ill? She does have good moments, though, and as I said before Esme Creed-Miles gave a great performance. She has some really strong stuff with Dream and Destruction that's straight from the books. I'm glad they kept in the part where she makes her eyes go the same colour to help Dream, though it would have been more effective if she'd been more, well, delirious before that to contrast with her change in behaviour. WHATEVER, she was good and worked really well with Sturridge and that's probably the main thing.
I'm finding the compression rough. Looking over at my books (no I didn't BURN THEM) I can see there's supposed to be two volumes between 'Season of Mists' and 'Brief Lives'. And then another one before 'The Kindly Ones'. But instead we're getting the 3 of them one after the other. It just makes it all feel less epic. They do weave in some of the standalone stories here and there: the stuff with Orpheus singing in Hades was very good. I think they moved Thermidor back as I'm pretty sure in the books it comes earlier and you don't really know Orpheus' story. Telling it chronologically is a bit more boring but it was good to see Jenna Coleman again.
With 'A Game of You' completely skipped, there's no Thessaly so Dream is sad about Nada leaving instead. I guess this works fine if you haven't read the books.
Wanda being moved to 'Brief Lives' is the biggest change. We get some great scenes out of it, with her telling her story to Dream and Delirium and the scene with Dream and her aunt at the funeral nearly moving me to tears. But sadly we lose Barbie writing on the gravestone in lipstick and seeing Wanda on the bus with Death which I feel are pretty iconic moments.
Acting is all very good again and I love Barnabas and Destruction (even if I expected him to be Scottish.) Kirby Howell-Baptiste absolutely steals any scene she's in as Death. Orpheus' actor was good at singing.
So I think it's two weeks now until the last four episodes than there's a one-off Death special and that's it. I'm going to complain about it feeling too short again for sure.
Again, I probably should have read the comics again to refresh my memory but I haven't really felt like touching them in the last year. I think they changed a lot more here than in 'Season of Mists'. First of all my biggest fucking complaint: taking out Matthew teaching Delirium how to drive ias absolutely criminal. Maybe they thought it would encourage crazy people to try to drive cars with the help of a talking raven or something, I don't know. But it's fun, it should have been in there. In general they toned Delirium down. I think partly because they didn't want her to seem too much like a child? Or they didn't want to make it look like they're making fun of the mentally ill? She does have good moments, though, and as I said before Esme Creed-Miles gave a great performance. She has some really strong stuff with Dream and Destruction that's straight from the books. I'm glad they kept in the part where she makes her eyes go the same colour to help Dream, though it would have been more effective if she'd been more, well, delirious before that to contrast with her change in behaviour. WHATEVER, she was good and worked really well with Sturridge and that's probably the main thing.
I'm finding the compression rough. Looking over at my books (no I didn't BURN THEM) I can see there's supposed to be two volumes between 'Season of Mists' and 'Brief Lives'. And then another one before 'The Kindly Ones'. But instead we're getting the 3 of them one after the other. It just makes it all feel less epic. They do weave in some of the standalone stories here and there: the stuff with Orpheus singing in Hades was very good. I think they moved Thermidor back as I'm pretty sure in the books it comes earlier and you don't really know Orpheus' story. Telling it chronologically is a bit more boring but it was good to see Jenna Coleman again.
With 'A Game of You' completely skipped, there's no Thessaly so Dream is sad about Nada leaving instead. I guess this works fine if you haven't read the books.
Wanda being moved to 'Brief Lives' is the biggest change. We get some great scenes out of it, with her telling her story to Dream and Delirium and the scene with Dream and her aunt at the funeral nearly moving me to tears. But sadly we lose Barbie writing on the gravestone in lipstick and seeing Wanda on the bus with Death which I feel are pretty iconic moments.
Acting is all very good again and I love Barnabas and Destruction (even if I expected him to be Scottish.) Kirby Howell-Baptiste absolutely steals any scene she's in as Death. Orpheus' actor was good at singing.
So I think it's two weeks now until the last four episodes than there's a one-off Death special and that's it. I'm going to complain about it feeling too short again for sure.