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smallblueandloud · 5 years

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TV Show Meme

pick 5 shows, then answer the following questions. don’t cheat. tag 10 (or however many) peeps.

i was tagged by @everythinghappens-love just now and @asthewheelwills several weeks ago (i’m very sorry, it’s been... busy).

(also, i was going to do emmys edition, but i’ve seen at least one full episode of a grand total of... two emmy-nominated shows, so uh. not gonna happen, lol.)

1. Doctor Who

2. Agents of SHIELD

3. The West Wing

4. Frasier

5. The Good Place

1. Who is your favorite character in 2?

oof. i mean, i’ll pretend this is a hard question, but daisy. hands down. i mean, not only is she gorgeous, she’s really unconventionally smart, super powerful, and full of longing to have a family.

(also, she’s ridiculously easy to write)

2. Who is your least favorite character in 1?

um. i mean, if we’re talking about davies!who, i don’t really... have a least favorite character? i love them all a lot, and they’re all super nuanced and it’s just... really wonderful

if we’re talking all of nuwho, either missy or river song. nothing against them personally, their writing was just. really horrible.

3. What is your favorite episode of 4?

the inkeepers. it’s hands down the funniest episode in the whole show.

i hunted for a gif of any moment and couldn’t find one, so i’ll leave you with a quote:

Frasier: All right, stop it! Get a grip. You're not being asked to do anything that none of us hasn't done before in our own kitchens in our own homes! Now quick, Niles, kill five eels!

Niles: Wait, wait! What?

Frasier: I'm serious! Every restaurant critic in Seattle is out there and they all want anguille, so start killing eels!

Niles: Wait, wait. How do you suggest I do that?

Frasier: How do I know? You're the chef. Throw a toaster in the damn tank for all I care!

[a few minutes later]

Frasier: Not to worry, Gil, the eels are on their way.

Gil: Our mouths are watering, Frasier.

Frasier: Our chef is in the process of...

The lights flicker, a humming sound is heard from the kitchen.

Frasier: ...frying them now.

4. What is your favorite season of 5?

probably season 2. i don’t know why, but the idea of the six of them being a team in the afterlife when there’s no one else to help them is... i don’t know. i really like it, can’t tell you why lol. (oh, and the montage of the different attempts is my favorite scene in any tv show, ever.)

5. Who is your favorite couple in 3?

josh/donna, obviously :D

6. Who is your favorite couple in 2?

i’m gonna cheat and put my favorite ship from aos, which is, as all of y’all know, fitzskimmons.

i have nothing to say except that i love my babies

7. What’s your favorite episode of 1?

turn left! definitely, for sure, always and forever.

god, it’s like someone wrote, combined, and filmed the dhr and donna fics of my dreams.

8. What is your favorite episode of 5?

it’s a tie between 2x10 (best self) and 3x07 (the worst possible use of free will). i turn on the former whenever i’m feeling down/bored/sick, and the latter... look, i’m cheleanor trash, okay? moving on.

(no gifs because i’m starting to feel guilty for the length of this post)

9. What is your favorite season of 2?

s3, because it has the most clips of normal team life (from what i remember, haven’t gotten there in the rewatch i’m doing for the fsk rewrite yet lol). also, the storylines were interesting and they actually put time into developing the friendships, which i’m missing a lot these days.

10. How long have you watched 1?

HA. huh. uh. four-ish years, i think? yeah. it was around the time that i discovered queen, and i would play bohemian rhapsody on repeat as i read fanfic (which means that now, sometimes, i hear a certain queen song and am hit with a very strong, very specific urge to read 10rose fic for the next 72 hours.)

11. How did you become interested in 3?

my mom made me watch it at first, and i was hooked by the first episode. it’s just... so smart, and so fast, and i love it very much.

12. Who is your favorite actor in 4?

is this even a question? david hyde pierce. obviously.

13. Which you prefer, 1, 2 or 5?

wow, you really just... went for my three favorite shows, huh? i guess as a measure of overall quality, the good place. for characters, agents of shield. and for plot, definitely doctor who.

14. Which show have you seen more episodes, 1 or 3?

doctor who! although-

as it turns out, i have watched 100 doctor who episodes, exactly. (go me!) on the other hand, i’ve watched 68 episodes of the west wing. so that answer’ll change pretty soon, lol.

15. If you could be anyone from 4, who would you be?

frasier? frasier? you want me to become someone from frasier?? uh... okay, uh...

niles, i guess? just because his apartment is... truly magnificent, lol. also he gets to marry daphne

16. Would a crossover between 3 and 4 work?

surprisingly, yes? i think this is the best combination on the list, actually. frasier knows... uh... i don’t know, sam? he went to school in *googles frantically* new jersey, so that could work?

honestly, i have no idea, but i need toby ‘i am a know-it-all’ zeigler and frasier ‘i am a pompous ass’ crane to be in a room together. it would be hilarious.

17. Pair two characters in 1 who would make unlikely but strangely okay couple.

clara/yaz. i will not be taking questions at this time.

18. Overall, which show has the best storyline, 3 or 5?

oh, oh man. you had to choose the two shows with the most cohesive storylines?

sorry, tww, but i’m gonna have to give it to the good place. the storyline and pacing are *chef’s kiss* divine.

19. Which has a better theme music, 2 or 4?

uh? i don’t even think that’s a choice, since frasier barely has any theme music and anyway, i hate letting frasier crane win at anything (lol). agents of shield!

i’m tagging @paperairplanesopenwindows, @aethersea, @florchis, @skyler10fic, @cassiesinsanity, and *flounders* @nereb-and-dungalef, just based on who i’ve been talking to recently. feel free to ignore this, or, conversely, if i didn’t tag you, feel free to pretend i did!

#sb and l rambles #sb and l is memed #sb and l watches tww #sb and l watches dw #...i think that is all of the relevant tags #okay so i am gonna go the HECK to bed now but here it is! i did it!#this was very fun #sorry about all the gifs lol

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therealkn · 5 years

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David’s Resolution - Day 2

Day 2 (January 2, 2019)

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981)

“…like a schoolboy throwing off the tawdry rags of his dreary institution, I throw off pretence and leap, wallowing in an ocean of freedom and pleasure.”

Usually when I buy something for my collection, I have a pretty good sense of whether I’ll like it or not. But sometimes, there are purchases that are basically gambles as to whether I’ll like it not. This film was one of them. I bought it because it seemed like one of those European art films that straddles the line between trashy and pretentious, and I hoped it was the former because I cannot handle pretention.

I still don’t know what exactly to make of this film. Maybe as I write this, I’ll be able to process it better.

This movie was written and directed Walerian Borowczyk (pronounced “valerian borovchik” because Polish is a “fuck you” language where how it’s spelled and how it’s pronounced are two very different things), who is a very... interesting filmmaker. Depending on who you ask, he was either a very talented and imaginative filmmaker whose work mixed the experimental with the erotic, or a very talented and imaginative filmmaker who fell into the realm of erotic film. I’m probably in the former camp, but only because based on the bonus features I’ve seen on this Blu-ray/DVD release, he seems more like a filmmaker who just did whatever the fuck he wanted. And I can appreciate that.

At the time I watched this, the only other Borowczyk film I knew of was The Beast (or La Bête), which the Cinema Snob had done an episode on and it seemed like it was the most pretentious erotic film ever made, or one of the most pretentious anyway.

The movie is, as the title indicates, a version of the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But, like I said, Borowczyk basically did whatever he wanted, so he took considerable liberties with the story. It takes place almost entirely within the Jekyll estate, where there is a party to celebrate the engagement of Dr. Jekyll (played by Udo Kier, everyone’s favorite European actor that you see in all kinds of weird things) and Fanny Osbourne (played by Italian actress Marina Pierro). At first it seems pretty lavish and pretentious and not a whole lot happens, which made me think “Oh, fuck me it’s one of those movies... I had a feeling this would happen.”

And then someone gets fucked to death. Literally.

All of a sudden, the nice lavish Victorian party gets messed up, as there is someone in the house going around, raping and killing people. Someone whose dick is so large (and apparently pointed), it literally pierces through your abdomen and kills you. It’s like the Lust murder in Seven, only way more fucked up. But yeah, with this guy running around, nobody’s safe and the women are hidden away while the men try to find who this person is and- okay, no, there’s no mystery, it’s Mr. Hyde of course.

If you haven’t noticed, this movie is seriously fucked up. When one of the guests at her party actually shows attracting to Mr. Hyde and offers herself to him while her father is tied up nearby just so that he’d be forced to see her be taken, I went “...Oh my God, what the fuck have I gotten myself into?” And the last time I had that reaction in a movie was The Hateful Eight. Those who have seen that movie will know why.

My opinion of this movie is muddled. It is a mixed bag. The acting is good overall, and the English dub of the movie isn’t bad. (The movie was in French, as a majority of Borowczyk’s films were made in France.) The visual style is pretty cool, with a lot of soft focus and a heavy atmosphere that makes the film feel surreal and dreamlike, sort of like a waking nightmare. The music adds to that quality, even in the times when it sounds like what you imagine a pretentious film’s soundtrack to sound like, and it makes the film feel more disturbing. And there are some moments where the film actually does feel erotic instead of “JESUS CHRIST”, like when Fanny, in one of the most recognized scenes from the film, is hiding behind cabinets and peeks between them to see Dr. Jekyll transform into Mr. Hyde. The transformation itself is interesting: instead of simply drinking a potion, Jekyll pours a bath and, instead of putting in those crystals for a bubble bath, he puts in a chemical that triggers a full-body transformation as he soaks his entire body in it.

There’s also the character of Fanny, who’s obviously a major character as the title indicates. She’s not a side character, she’s a main character who goes off trying to figure out what’s happening and why Jekyll keeps disappearing into his lab. When Hyde attacks her, she fights back, tries to appeal to the Jekyll inside him, even throws arrows at him (which works... somehow... lucky, I guess?). It’s clear that she’s a strong-willed woman who isn’t going to sit around passively, which is good.

But on the other hand, this movie goes into places that will make a good number of people uncomfortable. There are some pretty disturbing scenes in the movie and they all have to do with sexual things like rape or the aforementioned “What the fuck have I gotten myself into?” moment. There are several moments of that in the movie. And... I feel like Borowczyk’s trying to say something here, but I’m not sure what it is. Is it a message about Victorian-era morality and how despite social proprieties that we know and associate with the era, there was sexuality lurking just behind that and a desire to cast aside set proprieties? Is it something about repressed sexual desires? I’m not the person to ask about that. Maybe there’s something I’m missing. I dunno.

This is the first movie for this resolution where I don’t know if I could recommend it. I feel that is overall good, but the more screwed-up elements would probably put a lot of people off. I don’t know if this movie is for me. I don’t think it’s bad, and I don’t hate it, I just don’t think it’s for me. It’s important to know when something’s bad and something’s just not for you.

Don’t worry, next one’s not as messed up, and it’s something I have less muddled feelings for.

Next time: A movie that isn’t as messed up, thankfully. But how does death walk?

#David's resolution #The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne

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