Umm, it did look rather xmasy from the preview.
This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Feb 14, 2012 7:05:37 am PST #21885 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Sue - Feb 14, 2012 7:07:55 am PST #21886 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Yeah, they also combined eps 7 & 8 into one 2-hour show, and the result was close to Moldavian Massacre levels of melodrama and WTF-ness. The dresses and people are still pretty.
§ ita § - Feb 14, 2012 7:10:33 am PST #21887 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, okay, that was this week? Did I mention attention? Not paying much?
The building just rumbled in an atypical fashion. The place is made of tinkertoys, so I'm never surprised when the floor shakes daily, but this felt different, and you couldn't hear anyone stomping by concurrently.
Consuela - Feb 14, 2012 7:13:52 am PST #21888 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Jessica, YES to your spoiler-fonted text. Also, I felt like I was checking off a list of melodrama tropes while watching this season. I mean, seriously: deathbed marriages, out-of-wedlock baby spurned by the upper-class family, straying patriarch, PARALYSIS, amnesia/Brat Farrar plot, multiple affairs with lower-class characters, heroic save by the servant, OMG I CAN WALK AGAIN, meddling old ladies, EEEVIL media mogul, blackmailing ex-wife, stupid public snogging/kissing overheard by the person most likely to be hurt by it, self-sacrificing death, etc etc. It's just so completely over the top, way too much going on. And the scene at Lavinia's grave, with Matthew wailing about them being cursed? I couldn't stop laughing. It's all just so ludicrous. All we need is for one of the women to be raped. That's about the only soap opera plot element I haven't seen yet. Or maybe an evil twin: we haven't had an evil twin yet.
Sue - Feb 14, 2012 7:20:28 am PST #21889 of 30001
hip deep in pie
we haven't had an evil twin yet.
We did have the dread Canadian imposter!/maimed unrecognizable heir.
ETA: You forgot: Matthew's apparent transformation into a zombie after Lavinia's death. What was up with that makeup.
Consuela - Feb 14, 2012 7:23:08 am PST #21890 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yes, we certainly did. Which was lifted right out of Brat Farrar, by Josephine Tey. Also adapted for Masterpiece Theater, back in the 80s. I think it starred Bruce Greenwood, but I could be wrong.
ETA: I was wrong: it starred Mark Greenstreet.
Jessica - Feb 14, 2012 7:24:22 am PST #21891 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Sue, yes, Matthew's graveside zombie makeup of I CAN NEVER BE HAPPY AGAIN DRAMACAKES was something else.
Sue - Feb 14, 2012 7:31:57 am PST #21892 of 30001
hip deep in pie
There was so much terrible about this season, but I still loved it. However, I rewatched Series 1 over the past week and the greatness in it was all the drama found in the household. I do hope it calms down in series three now that they've dealt with the war.
le nubian - Feb 14, 2012 7:43:02 am PST #21893 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I think S2 was worse than S1 of DA, but as irritated as I was about S2, the xmas special made up for it.
I'm serious. I was all la-la butterfly kisses, rainbows, unicorns, after the Xmas special.
Toddson - Feb 14, 2012 7:49:34 am PST #21894 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"