erg + Carnivale
Nov. 19th, 2013 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snick_backupI am sick. I woke up with drippy sinuses and now we have added a sore throat and general feeling of ugh. I have thus sat around since I got home from work, except for the two hours where I was sort of taking a nap.
Roommate and I continue to watch Carnivale (very slowly) - we watched 1.05 and 1.06 today.
These are the Babylon episodes. I feel like they obscures more than they illuminated re: Ben Hawkins, but we did learn that apparently the people Scudder kills haunt the place they die. Or maybe he cursed the place? Unclear. (I am endlessly amused that Scudder is played by the same guy who was Gordon Walker's "Don't touch my Jesus" partner in Bad Day at Black Rock.) And who knows what the heck is up with Lodz.
Dora Mae's death was horrible, but her afterlife is so much worse.
I am convinced that Management actually exists. Roommate is skeptical.
I really loved the friendship that formed in these episodes between Sophie and Libby. It was very sweet and friendly and sincere, and I think Sophie in particular clearly needs people to lean on besides her mom. Of course now Libby is leaving.
It's interesting how little Babylon the mining town resembles or appears to ever have resembled Babylon the biblical symbol. Justin quotes scripture about Babylon in the beginning of 1.05, and we must assume that Scudder is the judgment that happens to it, but even before the mine collapsed, this was a tiny town housing 500 people. It apparently had one bar, one theater, and no women. Not exactly the gaudy, glittering trade center of the world, or even its little community. I'm not sure what if anything I'm to make of that. TBH, it feels a bit like The Matrix - nabbing names from biblical and other mythology because they sounded cool and epic, not in order to add any meaning whatsoever to the narrative. I'm happier if I don't think about it too hard.
I do wonder why Spangler couldn't leave, what form the magic took that kept him there. I confess I felt pretty sympathetic towards him until the justice scene towards the end where he says at least it was "the whore" the miners took. Right. (Another casting chuckle: I stared at him for the full two episodes before realizing he played Rachel Weisz's bumbling brother in the Mummy movies.)
I think these are my favorite eps so far. There was such a great sense of creeping horror as the miners entered the carnival, and then again when it became explicitly clear how the town's curse worked. MMM.
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Roommate and I continue to watch Carnivale (very slowly) - we watched 1.05 and 1.06 today.
These are the Babylon episodes. I feel like they obscures more than they illuminated re: Ben Hawkins, but we did learn that apparently the people Scudder kills haunt the place they die. Or maybe he cursed the place? Unclear. (I am endlessly amused that Scudder is played by the same guy who was Gordon Walker's "Don't touch my Jesus" partner in Bad Day at Black Rock.) And who knows what the heck is up with Lodz.
Dora Mae's death was horrible, but her afterlife is so much worse.
I am convinced that Management actually exists. Roommate is skeptical.
I really loved the friendship that formed in these episodes between Sophie and Libby. It was very sweet and friendly and sincere, and I think Sophie in particular clearly needs people to lean on besides her mom. Of course now Libby is leaving.
It's interesting how little Babylon the mining town resembles or appears to ever have resembled Babylon the biblical symbol. Justin quotes scripture about Babylon in the beginning of 1.05, and we must assume that Scudder is the judgment that happens to it, but even before the mine collapsed, this was a tiny town housing 500 people. It apparently had one bar, one theater, and no women. Not exactly the gaudy, glittering trade center of the world, or even its little community. I'm not sure what if anything I'm to make of that. TBH, it feels a bit like The Matrix - nabbing names from biblical and other mythology because they sounded cool and epic, not in order to add any meaning whatsoever to the narrative. I'm happier if I don't think about it too hard.
I do wonder why Spangler couldn't leave, what form the magic took that kept him there. I confess I felt pretty sympathetic towards him until the justice scene towards the end where he says at least it was "the whore" the miners took. Right. (Another casting chuckle: I stared at him for the full two episodes before realizing he played Rachel Weisz's bumbling brother in the Mummy movies.)
I think these are my favorite eps so far. There was such a great sense of creeping horror as the miners entered the carnival, and then again when it became explicitly clear how the town's curse worked. MMM.
Crossposted from Dreamwidth. Comment here or there. (
