Apparitionsssssssssssssssssssss! Squee! (Part 2)
Thursday, 13 November 2008 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
byslantedlightSqueeeeeee! *g*
It wasn't at all Bonekicker-y... *g* Okay, I knew it wouldn't be really, but... well sometimes you just worry a bit... *g*
I'm sorry I don't have torrents or recordings or anything like that - I have the sort of tv where I balance an aerial on top at the precise precarious angle required to get a picture at all. All I have is happy - and slightly spooked - bounce...
Oh it was fab! And not that I've particularly been out of love with him since I first saw him in Pros when I was a teenager, but I think I may have fallen for MS all over again - he was lovely as the priest... I mean, he was good still, but he didn't feel the same sort of "good" that he was in JJD, if you know what I mean. Maybe because he was playing a character that actually is likely to have people looking sideways at him - a priest, you know? So he wasn't playing the "hero" role exactly, he was playing a man who might be a hero... if that makes any sense.
Oh, I'm trying to think what I can say without spoilering anyone... It was beautifully shot! *g* No, but it really was - from the opening credits which were just gorgeous, and then everythin else was so beautifully done... Oh, and not a spoiler cos all the articles have already mentioned it - the young gay priest in the sauna - very beautifully shot...
It's also not a spoiler that bad things happened to the young gay priest (stoopid newspapers - it meant that I was waiting for that moment, which is a whole different thing to having the tension build up without knowing what's going to happen... *kicks spoilers*) but to be honest it was nothing that we haven't seen in Buffy, so that particularly stoopid newspaper really needs to get over itself about that. Not nice, no, but they've been told it's a harsh supernatural series and there was the little beeb warning before it started for those of more delicate constitutions at the beginning, so unless they're going to go around banning stuff after the watershed... But really, I didn't think it was any worse than some BtVS scenes... Well, not much...
The demon itself was scary, but then the more ordinary something truly awful looks, the scarier I find it, so... *g*
Oh, I can't think what else to say - talk to me about it?! *vbg*
It wasn't at all Bonekicker-y... *g* Okay, I knew it wouldn't be really, but... well sometimes you just worry a bit... *g*
I'm sorry I don't have torrents or recordings or anything like that - I have the sort of tv where I balance an aerial on top at the precise precarious angle required to get a picture at all. All I have is happy - and slightly spooked - bounce...
Oh it was fab! And not that I've particularly been out of love with him since I first saw him in Pros when I was a teenager, but I think I may have fallen for MS all over again - he was lovely as the priest... I mean, he was good still, but he didn't feel the same sort of "good" that he was in JJD, if you know what I mean. Maybe because he was playing a character that actually is likely to have people looking sideways at him - a priest, you know? So he wasn't playing the "hero" role exactly, he was playing a man who might be a hero... if that makes any sense.
Oh, I'm trying to think what I can say without spoilering anyone... It was beautifully shot! *g* No, but it really was - from the opening credits which were just gorgeous, and then everythin else was so beautifully done... Oh, and not a spoiler cos all the articles have already mentioned it - the young gay priest in the sauna - very beautifully shot...
It's also not a spoiler that bad things happened to the young gay priest (stoopid newspapers - it meant that I was waiting for that moment, which is a whole different thing to having the tension build up without knowing what's going to happen... *kicks spoilers*) but to be honest it was nothing that we haven't seen in Buffy, so that particularly stoopid newspaper really needs to get over itself about that. Not nice, no, but they've been told it's a harsh supernatural series and there was the little beeb warning before it started for those of more delicate constitutions at the beginning, so unless they're going to go around banning stuff after the watershed... But really, I didn't think it was any worse than some BtVS scenes... Well, not much...
The demon itself was scary, but then the more ordinary something truly awful looks, the scarier I find it, so... *g*
Oh, I can't think what else to say - talk to me about it?! *vbg*
Re: Major Spoilers
Date: Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:34 pm (UTC)absolutely made himself into Cecil Rhodes, into a man who believed in what he was doing, even though the world now knows that he behaved abominably...
and I think that was a project close to his heart as well - something he'd long been interested in doing - so maybe he needs that extra input for a role in order to excel - it doesn't hurt to have it, I suppose? He's always good, but in some roles he's *very* good!
Hmm....it's actually making me think about the subject-matter too - exorcism - I suppose there are real exorcists in the world? Imagine putting that one down on your passport....
Re: Major Spoilers
Date: Thursday, 13 November 2008 11:51 pm (UTC)and I think that was a project close to his heart as well
Oh interesting - I wonder why?! I must read more of my Book To Accompany The Series! *g*
From what I've read there definitely are real exorcists in the world, though I think the church is fairly hush-hush about it... The trouble with believing in angels, though, is that it almost makes it compulsory to believe in demons as well...
Re: Major Spoilers
Date: Friday, 14 November 2008 11:20 am (UTC)No, well not yet, anyway! No, I just *want* him to be... I suppose, for me, that's partly what slash is about - the potential of the situation - what looks possible.
and I think that was a project close to his heart as well Oh interesting - I wonder why?! I must read more of my Book To Accompany The Series! *g*
I can't remember the reason but I'm sure I remember reading somewhere that he'd wanted to do it for a long time.
Re: Major Spoilers
Date: Friday, 14 November 2008 11:21 am (UTC)Awww - d'you think he was in love with Vimal? I thought that he really meant it when he hugged his Italian priest friend, myself... *g*
Oh, your dirty mind! *g* But don't worry, mine too, because when I saw this scene, I thought "Oh, no! If he's going to kiss him, I die!":D
Re: Major Spoilers
Date: Friday, 14 November 2008 02:59 pm (UTC)Oh, your dirty mind!
Lol! No, not a dirty mind at all! I just think that when MS acts with men he somehow seems more comfortable and passionate with them... (and I don't just mean passion=sex) I saw that here tonight when he hugged his friend the Italian priest, for example, and in the way he looked at Vimal... I haven't seen that... warmth? in his "relationships" on screen with Jenny Seagrove's character in JJD, or the woman he was supposed to fancy in Dalgleish... Same as I see more warmth between Doyle and Bodie than I do between Doyle and any of his alleged girlfriends in Pros... I dunno what it is, but it's interesting, and it's seeing that warmth that I like... *g*
Re: Major Spoilers
Date: Friday, 14 November 2008 11:14 pm (UTC)