A) NBC deserves massive props for airing this show for three seasons and letting it be whatever it wanted to be. As disappointed as I am in it's cancellation, I can't imagine any other network would've been much braver (F/X, I'm lookin' at you)
So, you're given a choice. You can either watch Gillian Anderson or listen to her. What do you pick?
Oh, I think Hugh Dancy is giving an absolutely masterful performance. I maintain the biggest reason the second season worked was down his performance and the way he managed to play that insane duality (quadrality?).
So, so gorgeous.
Of course, you're going to use Sigur Ros as the entire group is seen for the first time (leaving Iceland no less). Of course, it's still beautiful. One of the few times the show maybe went for a more obvious choice, but I don't care. A beautiful show.
It's emotionally generous and open; refreshingly so. There is absolutely no cynicism here (the titular moments in episode's four and six, for example).
I would call it one of the more radical shows on "television" that's like Paul Thomas Anderon's Magnolia meets The X-Men, internationally.
I'm disappointed in how excited I was to watch this, but I laughed.
I'd be intrigued if the show can sustain its current tone. I love it, to be honest. There's nothing like it on television - that unusual score, the jawdropping beauty of the images, it's oddly jet black humour, the dreamlike pace. I get why some people are recoiling - it can feel ponderous. But I'm still fully on…
a) I haven't seen Mizumono since it's premiere because I found it as overwhelming a piece of art as I've ever experienced, so that opening was such a harrowing combination of beauty and terror because I didn't quite remember it - the beats were familiar, but the details not.
Umm…. I was actually salivating during the opening minutes. Christ, the amount I love this show is almost embarrassing.
Stone cold, motherfucking masterpiece.
This episode was particularly gorgeous to watch. The cut to and shot of Aemon on the funeral pyre was breathtaking.
Except when it did the episode before this,
Heh. If that happened, Mike would've thrown the challenge.
A) Okay, lets start with the final scene. Fuck that was terrifying. Not the baby killing/surgery. I'll be honest, whenever a baby/child is threatened in a movie, I knee-jerk to the "it's not real/just a doll/social worker's on the set." I'm not convinced by it. But I'm okay with that - I don't need to be for the…
I got halfway through the first season before I bailed. It wasn't for me.
Yeah, I was hoping for a direwolf.
I'm not sure what the general opinion is, but I think right now the run of episodes GoT is on is probably it's strongest ever - it's been an exciting and interesting season.