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I had zero expectations going in and I wasn't disappointed, but the show is kind of awful in a thoroughly endearing way. It actually reminds me of Supernatural in that regard, and it's at least a better adaptation of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen than that godawful film was. That said, I just cringed with embarrassment at the end of episode 2, that was just terrible. Billie Piper's accent is perhaps one of the worst things I have ever heard in my life, and Josh Hartnett is so far living up to his career of playing utterly wooden and uninteresting characters. Timothy Dalton was good (only to be expected) but the guy stealing the show so far is absolutely Simon Russell Beale as Ferdinand Lyle. I hope he continues to cameo, and long may his complaints about his gin-drinking wife continue. Jerusalem fucked around with this message at 11:57 on May 18, 2014 |
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CuddleChunks posted:Lord she's bad, so drat bad. Please please please find some way to soften it or give her no more lines. It's just dreadful. She somehow actually has a worse Irish accent than this guy, how is that even possible? 
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May 19, 2014 09:14
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I thought the show was a little better this time, though the deliberately "brutal" nature of all the characters means it is hard to really get behind any particular one of them. I hope that Frankenstein ends up turning Billie Piper's character into Caliban's perfect woman. Caliban: Truly you are a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which I dwell! How say thee? Brona: Oh aye tay be shoor tay be shoor diddly-dee potato!
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May 26, 2014 08:47
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She has poise, she's very regal. I was actually surprised she was apparently being enticed by Dorian's seduction attempt even before the seance scene left her completely unbalanced and she grabbed that random dude off the street for a little bit of how's your father.
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May 27, 2014 01:57
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Halloween Jack posted:Quick, which American folk heroes would be believable as a wolf-charmer? Weedon Scott! Hell, just flat out make him Jack London.
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May 27, 2014 04:17
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Show is still ridiculous but I feel like it is starting to find its feet, though maybe I'm still just dazzled that we finally got Van Helsing AND he's played by David Warner  Billie Piper's accent is still atrocious but I thought she gave an excellent performance in this episode, and I can't wait to see her with a beehive hairdo with white lightning bolts in it.
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Jun 4, 2014 11:40
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Did anyone else think it was kind of jarring how Sir Malcolm jumps from,"I must get my daughter back, this is my sole focus in life!" to,"I can't wait to take off on another expedition and that's suddenly going to become the thing I focus most of my time and attention on!"?
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Jun 4, 2014 23:27
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I thought this was the best episode of the season so far, probably helped by the focus on a single character. The surgery scene was utterly horrifying, especially since I know all that and worse was done in the name of "mental health" in that era.
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Jun 9, 2014 10:16
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I was mostly enjoying the episode but that voiceover during the Ives/Gray sex scene was laughably bad, it completely destroyed any sense of atmosphere. This show has a lot of potential and sometimes it realizes it (the Ives-centric flashback episode, the seance, the night out at the Grand Guignol) but it is so uneven and makes so many missteps it can be really frustrating. With only 2 episodes to go I figure I'll watch the rest of it, but I'm not sure relly where they can or will go for season 2.
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Jun 16, 2014 11:21
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Abner Assington posted:Asperger's Frankenstein Friendzonestein. I was laughing my rear end off when he was hiding in the wall watching her through the vent and feeling pissed off that she apparently doesn't "like him like him".
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Jun 16, 2014 23:15
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Squidster posted:Can someone gif the Vanessa helicopter? It was simultaneously horrifying and deeply hilarious. Unfortunately they don't QUITE do the full 360, so here are a couple of different versions  
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Jun 17, 2014 08:14
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Squidster posted:Much thanks, sir. Eva Green is consistently the most unsettling part of this show. She's absolutely the best part of the show, and I don't know if the show could really work without her (much as I love Timothy Dalton).
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Jun 17, 2014 22:55
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Ethan said he believed in everything but God, right? I took his doing the exorcism at the end to indicate that in his last moment of desperation he rediscovered/accepted his faith (I doubt the exorcism would have worked otherwise) or at least his hope - the fact that the pendant was the Patron Saint of Lost Causes just seems to further the idea that this was a last resort on his behalf. His backstory now looks less likely (though not impossible) to be the Wolfman and more like a fallen priest who lost his faith or otherwise was involved in some kind of scandal that forced him to flee America. The highlight of the episode for me was probably Ethan and Victor goofing around in the basement shooting guns till Momma Sembene came down and told them "Dad" was pissed  Also I was really hoping that Caliban was going to barrel his way in at some point to try and intimidate or moan at Victor only to realize just how in over his head he actually is.
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Jun 26, 2014 23:14
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Hahaha oh you motherfuckers with that cut to credits just before she answered It's an unmistakably trashy show but it got better with each episode and Eva Green was utterly exceptional in it, and I'll keep watching the show for her alone. Also I like that it looks like my early season hope that Caliban would turn out to be Victor's Igor pretty much came true. Edit: My other favorite moment was in the theater when Victor cocks his gun and Ethan puts his hand on his pistol like he's saying,"Nice effort little bro, but no..."
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Jun 30, 2014 11:02
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Domini Cane posted:Except, maybe, that he was in a church. If we have Van Helsing, crosses, and St. Judas medalions then "consecrated ground" might be a thing. Lucifer was the mightiest of all angels (unless you ask Michael  ) so I don't think he'd have a problem with being in a Church, and in fact it would suit his role as tempter and seducer taking on a form that would be trusted and respected and then corrupting it.Still, I just think he was a kind of weird old dude with his own issues, and that like Miss Ives or Sir Murray he's seen some poo poo/done things he's not proud of and has been trying to make amends ever since.
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Jun 30, 2014 16:46
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Same goes with Craig's Bond. People weren't able to like a 'violent' moody Bond until he had the 'coming of age' in Skyfall. Now he gets to be cold yet witty like everyone likes. I thought everybody loved Casino Royale though, and said it was a return to form for Bond after the silliness of the latter Brosnan years (which were almost rivaling the campiness of Roger Moore's era)? It was Quantum of Solace that people didn't like. Edit: Man, now I wanna rewatch Casino Royale.
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I agree he should just watch both, but in my opinion The Living Daylights is the superior of the two films. License to Kill tried something different and a little more personal for Bond though.
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Feenix posted:I wish not to spoil but just found out about this. What is the general consensus? Worth my time? It's trashy fun that is pretty stupid in places but is saved by a very strong performance by Eva Green. Also Timothy Dalton gives his usual baseline quality performance.
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Edit: Sorry for any spoilers!
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Solice Kirsk posted:Probably be easier to explain to the blind than to understand the garbled undead rantings anyways. Lady Irishstein: Oh aye fiddly-dee so'n it's a fight ye be wanting then, t'be sure t'be sure. Potato. I kinda want resurrecting her corpse to mean that dreadful Irish accent will magically disappear, but there's a kind of car-wreck fascination to hearing her garble it.
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