Filmography
Aug. 17th, 2014 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_lady_lilyOrphan Black, Season Two
This season dipped a little in the middle, if I'm honest, but picked up again close to the end. The plot ideas around cloning continued to be interesting, not least because someone presumed dead wasn't; some characters continued to be developed in ways which were, frankly, a touch disturbing in parts; there was a flavour of redemption or at least growth for some others; and the final episode kept enough plates in the air to make the prospect of a subsequent season interesting and appealing. The series continues to use its strengths of manipulating many genres, sometimes to comic effect but often slipping between one and the other to keep the viewer interested and engaged. I'm finding this quite enjoyable watching, although some slips into comfortable heterosexual narratives are a tad irritating. But we'll see what happens in the next series when it airs next year, I guess.
Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony
Would you believe that this is actually work? Well, it sort of is, because there's a bit of a thing at the moment in classical reception about the way that MLP engages with ancient myth (yes, it does, there's a Minotaur in an episode and so it totally counts), and the question of the difference between the target audience (children) and the older adult audience who are being drawn into the show for their own reasons. I was hoping to get a bit more of an insight into that issue, not least because it's actually a live question for a lot of popular culture - think about the Disney Hercules, for example, which is targeted at children but I'm fairly sure drew in a lot of non-parent adults as well. Sadly, that's not quite what I ended up getting, but it was an interesting way to while away an hour and a half or so all the same.
This season dipped a little in the middle, if I'm honest, but picked up again close to the end. The plot ideas around cloning continued to be interesting, not least because someone presumed dead wasn't; some characters continued to be developed in ways which were, frankly, a touch disturbing in parts; there was a flavour of redemption or at least growth for some others; and the final episode kept enough plates in the air to make the prospect of a subsequent season interesting and appealing. The series continues to use its strengths of manipulating many genres, sometimes to comic effect but often slipping between one and the other to keep the viewer interested and engaged. I'm finding this quite enjoyable watching, although some slips into comfortable heterosexual narratives are a tad irritating. But we'll see what happens in the next series when it airs next year, I guess.
Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony
Would you believe that this is actually work? Well, it sort of is, because there's a bit of a thing at the moment in classical reception about the way that MLP engages with ancient myth (yes, it does, there's a Minotaur in an episode and so it totally counts), and the question of the difference between the target audience (children) and the older adult audience who are being drawn into the show for their own reasons. I was hoping to get a bit more of an insight into that issue, not least because it's actually a live question for a lot of popular culture - think about the Disney Hercules, for example, which is targeted at children but I'm fairly sure drew in a lot of non-parent adults as well. Sadly, that's not quite what I ended up getting, but it was an interesting way to while away an hour and a half or so all the same.
