(...okay, I sort of feel like I wrote this already, but maybe I just wrote it in my head? Apologies if I ended up somehow posting this twice?)
...You haven't heard aboutOnce Upon a Time? Well. It's fantasy, probably obviously, a world where the denizens of Fairyland are transported to our world("Storybrooke, Maine") and their memories wiped, as part of a curse. The narrative cuts between backstory in Fairyland and present-day Storybrooke under the curse; Carlyle is Rumpelstiltskin in Fairyland and the pawnbroker-and-all-around-shady-business-guy Mr. Gold in Storybrooke, and he blows both parts away (I didn't even realize it was the same actor playing both roles until reading the recaps).
The show is interesting. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with it... it's only gone through one season, and has had a few growing pains: the pacing is kind of terrible and the characterization of at least one major character is a bit all over the place, and the portrayal of adoption/fostering MAKES ME STABBITY. But the arc is exciting, it appears to have the courage of its convictions (can't say more without spoiling) and I looooove how many strong women it has, and that the women are the movers of the action, and that it's the relationships between women that are important, and that familial/parental relationships are given priority over True Love. So there you have it. I suspect you will like it, if only because Carlyle is soooo awesome :)
I know that they cut a LOT from this show - can't wait to get my hands on the DVDs
...this explains a LOT. OK, I might have to get the DVDs, if there's a lot of cut material in them! (I don't want to say goodbye to all these characters yet!)
...really beautiful use of dark
THIS. The aesthetic, I really liked. (Though the jittery camera I could have done without, thanks!)
Re the writing for the ensemble cast: Yeah, I can imagine it's difficult to write for such a large cast (and the ensemble is why I love SGU -- I LOVE ensemble TV, as I've said!) And this, as I've said before, ended up being so very consistent -- So one of the places where I was pleased both by myself and by the writing was -- I had this idea of TJ (and wrote the vast majority of "Laws of Motion") before watching "The Hunt," which was TJ-centric, and I was so very pleased that my conception hit exactly the conception the writers had :)
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Date: 2012-07-18 04:31 pm (UTC)...You haven't heard aboutOnce Upon a Time? Well. It's fantasy, probably obviously, a world where the denizens of Fairyland are transported to our world("Storybrooke, Maine") and their memories wiped, as part of a curse. The narrative cuts between backstory in Fairyland and present-day Storybrooke under the curse; Carlyle is Rumpelstiltskin in Fairyland and the pawnbroker-and-all-around-shady-business-guy Mr. Gold in Storybrooke, and he blows both parts away (I didn't even realize it was the same actor playing both roles until reading the recaps).
The show is interesting. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with it... it's only gone through one season, and has had a few growing pains: the pacing is kind of terrible and the characterization of at least one major character is a bit all over the place, and the portrayal of adoption/fostering MAKES ME STABBITY. But the arc is exciting, it appears to have the courage of its convictions (can't say more without spoiling) and I looooove how many strong women it has, and that the women are the movers of the action, and that it's the relationships between women that are important, and that familial/parental relationships are given priority over True Love. So there you have it. I suspect you will like it, if only because Carlyle is soooo awesome :)
I know that they cut a LOT from this show - can't wait to get my hands on the DVDs
...this explains a LOT. OK, I might have to get the DVDs, if there's a lot of cut material in them! (I don't want to say goodbye to all these characters yet!)
...really beautiful use of dark
THIS. The aesthetic, I really liked. (Though the jittery camera I could have done without, thanks!)
Re the writing for the ensemble cast: Yeah, I can imagine it's difficult to write for such a large cast (and the ensemble is why I love SGU -- I LOVE ensemble TV, as I've said!) And this, as I've said before, ended up being so very consistent -- So one of the places where I was pleased both by myself and by the writing was -- I had this idea of TJ (and wrote the vast majority of "Laws of Motion") before watching "The Hunt," which was TJ-centric, and I was so very pleased that my conception hit exactly the conception the writers had :)