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The JQ Connection: Part 2

Kevin McNally

Pirates of The Caribbean series and Phantom of the Opera: Pirates is definitely a family favourite, we’ve watched it so many times. POTO (yes another Gerry movie…don’t judge I’ve loved the man for 20 years) changed my life, became my favourite and first show I saw on Broadway, and it’s my most special thing. Poor Kevin gets hung by The Phantom tho. 😬

Show with Joe: Catherine The Great as Alexei Orlov

Richard Roxburgh

Van Helsing and Moulin Rouge: I watch Van Helsing every Halloween Hundred and Moulin Rouge I’d have the soundtrack on repeat. I was supposed to see it in 2020 but literally 3 days before the show…Broadway shut down. It was one of the worst things that ever happened to me, not to mention I lost my opportunity to see the amazing Aaron Tveit 😭😭😭

Show with Joe: Catherine The Great as Grigory Orlov

Rory Kinnear

Penny Dreadful: A fun, dark show featuring monsters…such a great ride.

Show with Joe: Catherine The Great (if I ever had the balls to meet Joe I’d want him to sign the pic of him and Rory in their ballgowns) as Nikita Ivanovich Panin

Olivia Colman

The Night Manager, The Crown, and Doctor Who: She’s been in them all!! Her talent is unmatched.

Shows with Joe: Mosquitoes as Jenny and Les Miserables as Madame Thernardier

Stephen Rea

Interview with the Vampire: The movie that started the life long obsession with vampires when I was only 10. (Show is 10 times better tho)

Show with Joe: Dickensian as Inspector Bucket

Matthew Modine

Cuthroat Island: Another family favourite….I guess we just like pirates.

Show with Joe: Stranger Things as Dr. Martin Brenner

#joseph quinn

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chunkletskhl · 4 years

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Salavat Yulaev’s Grigory Panin getting out for a skate with the pupper on Lake Baikal recently!

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sirin-and-alkonost · 4 years

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Catherine the Great (2019) characters: in the show vs in real life

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goalhofer · 5 years

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2019-20 H.C. Salavat Yulaev Roster

Wingers

#7 Eduard Gimatov (Ufa, Russia)

#9 Daniil Skorikov (Saratov, Russia)

#16 Maxim Mayorov (Andijan, Uzbekistan)

#17 Vyacheslav Solodukhin (St. Petersburg, Russia)

#18 Dmitri Kugryshev (Balakovo, Russia)

#21 Vladislav Lukin (Ufa, Russia)

#25 Vladimir Zharkov (Elektrostal, Russia)

#26 Nikolai Chebykin (Chita, Russia)

#27 Rodion Amirov (Salavat, Russia)

#65 Sakari Manninen (Oulu, Finland)

#67 Linus Omark (Overtornea, Sweden)

#70 Teemu Hartikainen (Kuopio, Finland)

#90 Nikita Soshnikov (Nizhny Tagil, Russia)

Centers

#62 Pyotr Khokhryakov (Nizhnekamsk, Russia)

#69 Alexander Burmistrov (Kazan, Russia)

#78 Alexander Kadeikin (Elektrostal, Russia)

#98 Vladislav Kartayev (Chelyabinsk, Russia)

Defensemen

#2 Pavel Koledov (Novosibirsk, Russia)

#5 Alexei Semenov (Murmansk, Russia)

#11 Grigori Panin (Tolyatti, Russia)

#14 Yevgeni Lisovets (Grodno, Belarus)

#33 Mikhail Pashnin (Chelyabinsk, Russia)

#36 Philip Larsen (Esbjerg, Denmark)

#85 Shakir Mukhamadullin (Ufa, Russia)

#92 Zakhar Arzamastev (Novokuznetsk, Russia)

#93 Artyom Sergeyev (Moscow, Russia)

#94 Stanislav Gareyev (Ivanovo, Russia)

Goalies

#1 Andrei Karayev (Moscow, Russia)

#50 Vladimir Sokhatsky (Ufa, Russia)

#77 Juha Metsola (Tampere, Finland)

#Sports #Hockey #Hockey Goalies #Russia #Celebrities #Finland #Denmark #Belarus #Uzbekistan #Sweden

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rughydrangea · 4 years

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Екатерина 3х10

I slowly make my way through this season (though much quicker than I got through Vzlyot!). Is it just me, or is this the best season so far? I mean, the first season has the incomparable Yelizaveta Petrovna in its favor, but I don’t know, I feel like I’m invested in all the characters more deeply at this point (Panin, pure trash but weirdly dependable and maybe the best performance on the show! Sheshkovsky, definitely enjoying his torturer duties more than he should but so consistently on Yekaterina’s side that I can’t help but like him! Luka, who rose massively in my estimation once I found out that he was informing on Pavel to Sheshkovsky!). Maybe I just have Stockholm Syndrome? Or maybe (here’s a hope) the level of my Russian is constantly improving so I like it more because I understand it better? Also I feel like they spent a lot more money on this season than Vzlyot, so even if there are some obviously CGI exteriors, it’s nowhere near as offensive. Also their location shooting is expanding! They for sure went to the muddy muddy courtyard of Gatchina!

But that’s not the point. I would like to say that last episode I finally felt the first flicker of sympathy for Pavel, as he went on this absolutely wild adventure to get a portrait of Pugachev, just so he could confirm that, against the hope he holds in every atom of his body, Pugachev isn’t the miraculously still-alive Pyotr Fyodorovich. The aching vulnerability he shows the morning after, still hideously drunk, sobbing at his mother, for once not out of anger at her, but because he is 20 and he misses his father, felt truly human, and it was maybe the best way to display Yekaterina’s failings as a mother. When Pavel reaches out, embraces her of his own volition, out of inebriation, yes, but also because there is a part of him that is a boy who needs a parent to comfort him, she simply cannot give him that comfort. She awkwardly pats his head and walks away. We can understand why she is this way--her son was taken away from her the second he was born, she barely had access to him, and then after his first guardian died Yekaterina had to fairly swiftly execute her coup, and then she was left with this child who she barely knew who reminded her of the husband who neglected her and wanted to imprison her in a monastery for the rest of her life who she ousted and who was murdered on her behalf. Like, of course it would be hard for her to bond with him. But Pavel needs a parent, and there is nobody who can be that to him. As annoying as he is, as much as I can’t stand him, that is pitiable.

And then of course this episode he reminds me he’s the worst by saying he wants to change the law to prevent women from holding the throne, because they’re too emotional (says the boy who is ruled by his very stupid feelings!). Truly, Pavel, go and suck a bag of dicks. And of course that is what ended up happening (the shutting-out of female rulers, not the dick-bag-sucking, as far as I know, anyway), but you know, I’d say on the whole it’s the women sovereigns of the 18th century who have a better reputation than the male rulers of the 19th century (with a big exception for the Tsar-Liberator, Aleksandr II). I’m just saying, Yekaterina is the last Russian ruler to be called the Great. Not that I am in favor of autocrats. But you get what I mean!

Also on a non-Pavel note I weirdly respect that the show has Yekaterina sleep with Aleksei Orlov even though I’m pretty sure he’s one of the men she never actually had as a favorite? Weird choice, but it did lead to a hilarious sex scene (she moans ‘Grigory’. ‘Did you mean my brother or Potyomkin?’ he asks. ‘Who do you think?’ she responds).

#yekaterina #russia cannot be understood with the mind alone #my commentary #екатерина

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alleyskywalker · 7 years

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Catherine/Ekaterina S2x1-2

@mildredmost I’m just gonna tag you in this notes post instead of spamming you with messages lol.

Overall: GOOD START.

(Gotta say, though, the CGI landscapes are awful, tbh :/)

Panin, from his very first scene, just SLAYS. I was prepared to dislike him but he is AWESOME! (Also, his little speech about Russia needing to focus inward is so fitting for contemporary political commentary that I almost have to wonder if one of the writers is a ~liberal opositionalist lol.) Also, some good foreshadowing there for Paul's policies, given that Paul respected Panin and his thinking, even if they disagreed on some fundamental things like autocracy vs. constitutional monarchy.

The Orlovs are still goons. God, I hate them so much, especially Grigory.

POROSHIN!!! I wasn't expecting you! SO. HAPPY. (Though here he's giving Paul a language lesson when he was actually his math tutor, if I'm not mistaken.) The timeline is skewed a bit, though - this is 1768, and Poroshin was removed from court in 1766. But, you know what, whatever, I'm really happy to see him :D Also, looks like they're going to give credit to the "official" reason for Poroshin's removal (his courtship of Anna Sheremetyeva). This annoys me mildly, but I'm not surprised.

Andrei Razumovsky was mentioned! Catherine wants Paul to be friends with the Razumovsky children. I really hope we might get some onscreen Paul & Andrei friendship after all!

PAUL!!! Paul is ADORABLE in this omg <3 Just absolutely adorable. I mean, fuck, just look at his face:

The way Catherine treats him is abominable and edging toward emotional abuse (though not quite there yet). She's plotting to have her other son (from Orlov) take the throne, which fuck you, Catherine, tbh. Apparently, she won't even allow him to call her "mother." (I'm...I don't think this particular bit is historically accurate but still. These ARE show notes, after all.)

She thinks he's too much like Peter because...he likes swords and daring bravery (like every teenage boy ever) and he doesn't want to learn a silly looking Russian folk dance? FFS.

Also some of her ideas are kinda... I mean, like she's annoyed that he's into brash bravery but thinks it's cool that he may be lusting after an older girl/woman? HE'S FOURTEEN. Also, her idea of good friends for him are boys who don't ~think too much~ but are roudy and ~sporty. Like...ok. And, seriously, the fact that his health problems annoy instead of concern her is definitely a warning flag. Agh.

But, really, Paul's such a sweetheart - the way he gets along with his tutors, the fact that he offers to help Poroshin in his courtship, the fact that he wants to know about his father, how he feels a bit snubbed by his mother but still hopes she will come see him.

The only thing is that he's not crazy about going to see his younger half-brother, but a) he's a teenager and Alexei is like 7 I think and b) if he knows about Alexei he surely knows he's Orlov's and historical Paul knew full well who was responsible for his father's death so there's no reason to think show!Paul doesn't. He doesn't want to hang out with the son of his father's murderer, wow, how shitty of him /sarcasm. (Not the official reason he gives, but it's not like he can say THAT to Catherine's face or, even, admit it to Poroshin.)

Catherine's glee over Peter's death is in character but so infuriating. Especially jarring is the flashback they use of Peter saying he's going to execute/try everyone who put him down when he becomes Emperor but...he never did? Not historically, not even in the show. I know in the show the way they played it Catherine felt/was threatened but, otherwise... Peter left everyone be for the most part.

Speaking of flashbacks - the couple of Peter flashbacks we got made me sad. I miss him :/(No actual new footage, btw, just cuts from last season.)

Poniatowski is back. He brought a chamberlain this time. This makes his re-appearance a lot more acceptable to me xD ;)

Potemkin was there, but there hasn't really been enough of him to form any kind of real impression.

#catherine (2014)#ekaterina #paul i of russia #catherine the great #period drama #catherine ii #op #catherine s2 reaction post

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biofunmy · 5 years

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Review: Helen Mirren Wears the Crown (This Time, Russia’s)

Helen Mirren won an Oscar, deservedly, for playing Elizabeth II in “The Queen” in 2007. Beginning Monday on HBO, she plays another misunderstood woman occupying a throne — though a notably less lonely one this time — in the mini-series “Catherine the Great.”

She’s brought along her extraordinary gifts of subtlety and intelligence, and there are moments throughout the series when a wicked look or stifled emotion illuminates the Russian empress. She hasn’t brought along the writer Peter Morgan or the director Stephen Frears from “The Queen,” however, and in “Catherine the Great” she’s stranded, like a Fabergé egg in an airport gift shop.

Morgan, of course, has moved on to “The Crown,” where he has seemingly endless time to tell the story of Elizabeth II. Nigel Williams and Philip Martin, the writer and director of “Catherine the Great” (Williams wrote the mini-series “Elizabeth I” for Mirren; Martin has directed seven episodes of “The Crown”), don’t have that luxury. To encompass Catherine’s 34-year reign (1762-96) in four hours, they turn it into a love story: the tempestuous tale of Catherine and the courtier and general Grigory Potemkin (Jason Clarke), two crazy kids who can’t quit each other while they’re annexing Crimea, slaughtering Turks and neglecting to free the serfs.

It’s a reasonable decision (if not entirely true to the historical record), but even with performers as capable as Mirren and Clarke, the relationship never approaches the romantic velocity it needs to carry the series. There’s a lot of yelling and passionate making up, but it’s all a little distant and slightly embarrassing, like watching a couple you don’t know arguing in a parking lot. And despite gorgeous interiors and impressive backdrops, the show as a whole doesn’t have the sweep or grandeur that would let you overlook the glibness and superficiality of the script. It plays like a dime-store “Dangerous Liaisons,” with a touch of “Amadeus” in Joseph Quinn’s twitchy performance as Catherine’s ineffectual son.

There is a feminist and revisionist aspect to the series, which intends to rescue Catherine from the more extreme fabrications about her carnality while still celebrating the sexual boldness that accompanied her (relatively) enlightened attitudes and masterly exercise of power. Like innumerable male protagonists before her, she has a strong sex drive and craving for the attention of the opposite sex, accompanied by the power to obtain them, and men compete for her favor or groom other men, younger and more beautiful, to serve as their proxies.

It’s great in concept, and it’s there onscreen in textbook fashion, but the script doesn’t do much to enliven it, to give us an authentic or visceral sense of the character’s exceptionality. “I’m not interested in debauchery,” Catherine says, adding “I’m interested in love, and honesty,” as if she’s writing an 18th-century Tinder profile. And Mirren’s performance, skillful as it is, doesn’t close the gap. There’s the occasional sharp moment to remind us of the character’s inner fires, but mostly she plays it cool and oddly small-scale, like an overly qualified schoolmistress who happens to find herself ruling an empire.

The casting of Mirren (who reportedly originated the project) achieves another reversal of typical entertainment-industry practice: At 74, she plays a character who. for most of the series. is in her 30s to 50s, a privilege usually reserved for men. She’s 24 years older than her romantic co-star, Clarke, even though Catherine was just a decade older than Potemkin. More power to her, and she’s more convincing (and seductive) than actors like Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty have been in similar situations. Which isn’t to say that her age in the role is never a distraction, depending on what your expectations are for swoony historical epics.

Other accomplished British and Australian actors (the series was produced for the Sky network) do perfectly competent work as bewigged and slightly caricatured Russians, including Clarke as the petulant Potemkin, Rory Kinnear as the scheming foreign minister Nikita Panin, and Richard Roxburgh as the hotheaded Grigory Orlov, Catherine’s principal lover before Potemkin. Like Mirren, they’re swept along on the tide of history and big-budget costume drama.

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hodgepodgesports-blog · 7 years

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KHL Coach throws a stick on the ice and narks on his assistant

Lokomotiv head coach Alexei Kudashov let his frustrations get the best of him Monday in his team's Gagarin Cup series against SKA.

It's unclear what exactly set him off, but Kudashov responded by throwing a water bottle onto the ice and accidentally hit SKA forward Ilya Kablukov in the process, leading to him being ejected. Before leaving the bench, Kudashov motioned toward his assistant, who was all too happy to take the blame (the referees weren't fooled, though).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0ncsABtqdY

This coach is fucking nuts, or wait…is he? Usually coaches start throwing loose sticks and the occasional water bottle after a little disagreement with the Ref or maybe to fire up their team who is playing like shit. But this Russian coach decided to start throwing bottles up 1-0 midway through the third period. Seems odd to me but Russia has always been way ahead of the curve with their techno music and fur hats, I believe they are called Babushkas.

As revolutionary as Alexei Kudashov is with his bottle throwing tactics, I have never seen someone sold down the river faster than his “yes man” assistant coach. Gudashov tried to give the Ref the old; “it wasn’t me, it was him act” and his assistant took the bait hook, line and sinker. You have to respect this spineless schmuck; he’s just taking one for the team.

But can you really blame this on Kudashov after viewing that poor excuse for a video. After seeing the zoomed in frame of the Lokomotiv bench you could pin this on the guy selling Borsch up in the concourse. That magnifying glass feature was a real game changer too, just Russia making the Western world look like a bunch of simpletons.

Lokomotiv went on to lose 2-1 in overtime, falling to 3-0 in the series.

Oh, sorry Alexei, I guess your not the Trotsky of hockey after all, my bad.

Next week on “The Wacky World of the KHL” we witness Grigory “not Gregory” Panin with two assaults in one shift:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4UPOezza54

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chunkletskhl · 4 years

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U18 national teamers (left to right) Anastasiya Astrakhantseva, Ilona Markova, Polina Luchnikova, and Veronika Korzhakova were honoured with the ceremonial faceoff prior to last Monday’s KHL game between Salavat Yulaev Ufa and CSKA Moscow (all four play their club hockey for Agidel Ufa, Salavat Yulaev’s sister team). Also in photo: Salavat Yulaev’s Grigori Panin (#11) and CSKA’s Nikita Nesterov. (Image Source, with a hat-tip to Denis Osipchuk)

#Anastasiya Astrakhantseva #Ilona Markova #Polina Luchnikova #Veronika Korzhakova #Grigori Panin #Nikita Nesterov #Agidel Ufa #Salavat Yulaev Ufa #CSKA Moscow #Russia #National Team #Forwards #Defenders #Defencemen #Women's Hockey #ZhHL #Russian Women's Hockey League #Junior Hockey #U18 Team

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goalhofer · 3 years

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2021-22 K.K. Salavat Yulaev Roster

Wingers

#10 Viktor Tikhonov II (Lexington, Kentucky)

#17 Stepan Sannikov (Solikamsk, Russia)

#19 Danil Bashkirov (Tyumen, Russia)

#27 Rodion Amirov (Salavat, Russia)

#41 Nikolay Kulemin (Magnitogorsk, Russia)

#61 Danil Alalykin (Ufa, Russia)

#68 Artyom Pimenov (Sarapul, Russia)

#70 Teemu Hartikainen (Kuopio, Finland) A

#87 Gleb Kuzmin (Ufa, Russia)

#92 Alexei Pustozyorov (Chebarkul, Russia)

#93 Sergei Shmelyov (Nizhnekamsk, Russia)

Centers

#16 Geoff Platt (Toronto, Ontario)

#60 Kari Granlund (Oulu, Finland)

#62 Pyotr Khokryakov (Nizhnekamsk, Russia)

#65 Sakari Manninen (Oulu, Finland)

#78 Alexander Kadeikin (Elektrostal, Russia)

#98 Vladislav Kartayev (Chelyabinsk, Russia)

Defensemen

#2 Pavel Koledov (Novosibirsk, Russia)

#11 Grigori Panin (Tolyatti, Russia) C

#14 Yevgeni Lisovets (Grodno, Belarus)

#28 Andrey Zubarev (Ufa, Russia)

#33 Mikhail Naumenkov (Moscow, Russia)

#36 Philip Larsen (Esbjerg, Denmark) A

#48 Yevgeny Biryukov (Kasli, Russia)

#63 Dinar Khafizullin (Kazan, Russia)

#85 Shakir Mukhmadullin (Ufa, Russia)

Goalies

#39 Alexander Sharychenkov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)

#77 Juha Metsola (Tampere, Finland)

#Sports #Hockey #Hockey Goalies #Russia #Celebrities #Finland #Canada #Ontario #Denmark #Kentucky #Belarus

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goalhofer · 4 years

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2020-21 K.K. Salavat Yulaev Roster

Wingers

#7 Eduard Gimatov (Ufa, Russia)

#9 Daniil Skorikov (Saratov, Russia)

#17 Vyacheslav Solodukhin (St. Petersburg, Russia)

#18 Dmitri Kugryshev (Balakovo, Russia)

#19 Danil Bashkirov (Tyumen, Russia)

#21 Vladislav Lukin (Ufa, Russia)

#25 Vladimir Zharkov (Pavlovsky Posad, Russia) A

#27 Rodion Amirov (Salavat, Russia)

#61 Danil Alaykin (Ufa, Russia)

#65 Sakari Manninen (Oulu, Finland)

#68 Artyom Pimenov (Sarapul, Russia)

#70 Teemu Hartikainen (Kuopio, Finland) A

#87 Gleb Kuzmin (Voronezh, Russia)

#90 Nikita Soshnikov (Nizhny Tagil, Russia)

Centers

#10 Ilya Baranov (Moscow, Russia)

#24 Mikhail Vorobyev (Ufa, Russia)

#60 Markus Granlund (Oulu, Finland)

#62 Pyotr Khokhryakov (Nizhnekamsk, Russia)

#78 Alexander Kadeikin (Elektrostal, Russia)

#98 Vladislav Kartayev (Chelyabinsk, Russia)

Defensemen

#2 Pavel Koledov (Achinsk, Russia)

#5 Alexei Semenov (Murmansk, Russia)

#11 Grigori Panin (Karaganda, Kazakhstan) C

#14 Yevgeni Lisovets (Grodno, Belarus)

#36 Philip Larsen (Esbjerg, Denmark)

#37 Igor Myasischev (Moscow, Russia)

#48 Yevgeni Biryukov (Kasli, Russia)

#56 Alexander Alexeyev (St. Petersburg, Russia)

#85 Shakir Mukhmadullin (Ufa, Russia)

#89 Dmitry Korobov (Novopolotsk, Belarus)

Goalies

#30 Vladislav Sukhachev (Chelyabinsk, Russia)

#31 Alexander Skrynnik (Voronezh, Russia)

#40 Danil Tarasov (Novokuznetsk, Russia)

#77 Juha Metsola (Tampere, Finland)

#Sports #Hockey #Hockey Goalies #Russia #Celebrities #Finland #Belarus #Denmark #Kazakhstan

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alleyskywalker · 7 years

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Catherine/Ekaterina - Eps 5-6

BTW, I haven't been warning for spoilers in these posts because I thought it was obvious, but in case anyone is wondering, yes I do comment on plot and talk about spoilers in these notes.

@mildredmost ANDREI IS HERE! Well, he was. He's going to go serve in the navy now, so...

Well, alright, let's start with Andrei then, since I've already mentioned him. His characterization was a bit...unexpected. I mean, I know he's supposed to be a ladies' man but I think they overdid it a tad. Also, sadly, nothing special re: him and Paul (Andrei's brother, Peter, was also there. Here they're both shown as Paul's friends.) But at least there's some hope that maybe, if we get that far eventually, Andrei will be a major player once Paul is older and Andrei comes back from the navy. I can only hope :) (But tbh, this would probably be S3.)

Paul was a cutie as always, though a lot less of him this episode. I was right - he made friends with little Alexei and they're adorable together. (Also formed a little secret, kind-of pact against Catherine lol.) The swimming scene with him, Alexei and the Razumovsky boys was lovely and it was nice to see Paul having fun with friends. What was less fun was Catherine's plot to have her (adult, as far as I can tell) lady in waiting get pregnant by PAUL, WHO IS LIKE 14-15.

I think the most glaring example of how the show messes with historical accuracy for dramatic effect is all the stuff happening around little Alexei, whom Catherine never acknowledged so openly.

I SWEAR THIS SHOW IS SET ON BREAKING MY HEART. I understood killing Anna, though that was fucking brutal, come on. But was it REALLY THAT HARD to just let Poroshin go? Just...let him go? But nooo. First they had to put him through the heartbreak of seeing his girlfriend dying, then the heartbreaking on being betrayed by all his friends, none of whom was brave enough to be his second, AND THEN the most heartbreaking, terrible duel ever - I usually love duels in period dramas but this was no fun at all - and then murder him? (And all of this AFTER he gets fired AND finds out Anna is betrothed to Panin. wtf.) Stupid, stupid boy. why did you agree to do this without a second? Yea, yea, I know, honor and all that, but ffs! Seriously, he even tried to APOLOGIZE? Panin, what the fuck did he ever do to you? I just...omg.

Also, I've done a 180. I hate Panin. He's a complete and unforgivable asshole.

The ball scene at the start makes it kind of obvious how low-budget this show is, if the bad CGI wasn't clue enough. I guess it does say something about the writing/acting that I'm still enjoying it more than obviously more expensive productions, like Velikaya.

Potemkin got to be a little more interesting tonight. This Grigory/Catherine/Potemkin love triangle is actually not quite as annoying as I thought it would be.

There was more plotting/politics in these two eps. These events aren't as dynamic as I thought they'd be (so far, the emotional part of the show has been a lot better). But things are starting to look toward war, so that will be interesting.

A lot of the roles were re-cast. At first I thought it was just Frederick the Great and Betskoy (the latter of which could be excused as an age jumo), but they did it to Orlov and Poniatowski, which...why? I hate the lack of continuity that re-casting brings.

We find out Saltykov is dead. Catherine isn't particularly emotional about it, though it does bring back some old memories. But her conversation with Sophia on the topic illustrates, I think, how obsessed she is with men having lots of sex with their wives and people leaving a mark on the world after they die, which...ok lol.

#catherine (2014)#ekaterina #catherine the great #paul i of russia #period drama #spoilers #op #catherine s2 reaction post

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goalhofer · 5 years

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2019-20 H.C. Salavat Yulaev Players By Nationality

Russian: 23 (Rodion Amirov, Zakhar Arzamastsev, Alexander Burmistrov, Nikolai Chebykin, Stanislav Gareyev, Eduard Gimatov, Alexander Kadeykin, Andrei Kareyev, Vladislav Kartayev, Pyotr Khokhryakov, Pavel Koledov, Dmitri Kugryshev, Vladislav Lukin, Maxim Mayorov, Shakir Mukhamadullin, Mikhail Pashnin, Alexei Semenov, Artyom Sergeyev, Daniil Skorikov, Vladimir Sokhatsky, Vyacheslav Solodukhin, Nikita Soshnikov & Vladimir Zharkov)

Finnish: 3 (Teemu Hartikainen, Sakari Manninen & Juha Metsola)

Danish: 1 (Philip Larsen)

Belarussian: 1 (Yevgeni Lisovets)

Kazakhstani: 1 (Grigori Panin)

Swedish: 1 (Linus Ullmark)

#Sports #Hockey #Hockey Goalies #Russia #Celebrities #Finland #Denmark #Belarus #Kazakhstan #Sweden

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goalhofer · 6 years

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