Les Mis BBC, Part 4
Jan. 21st, 2019 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bobcatmoranChrist on a pogo stick, Davies, would it kill you to write a female character who isn’t a) A vessel for the male gaze b) A nasty mean old lady or c) An actual nun?
Anyway. Thoughts under the cut:
Stuff that I actually liked:
• Cosette having friends at the convent! Her hugging Sister Simplice as they left! Awww!
• The turquoise doors of the house on Rue Plumet
• The contrast between Cosette and Valjean moving into the luxury of Rue Plumet vs. the next scene being Marius moving into the dark, tiny room at Gorbeau House
• Cosette: “Everyone looks so smart here!” Valjean, doubtfully looking around at early 1830s fashions: “If you say so.”
• (I am choosing to believe this is why Cosette has no sleeve plumpers — Valjean thought they looked silly and forbade her to get any)
• Marius’ fancy suspenders
• All fifteen seconds of Gavroche’s screentime
• Austere Dinnertime Sitting Ramrod Straight With Javert
• One of Thenardier’s aliases is “Genflou,” aka the name of Valjean’s Prison Boyfriend from the 1952 Hollywood movie version.
Keeping in the bit with Thenardier being like, “Oh, this menacing gangster is just a neighbor. That one, too. Just neighbors. Lots of neighbors. All gathering here. No reason.”
Kind of disappointing, but I’ll roll with it:
• “Hello, I am Fauchelevant and this is my niece.”
• Only getting Enjolras, Grantaire, and Courfeyrac (and Bossuet and…uh…let’s call him “Kevin” in that one scene) as members of ABC
• Mme. Thenardier didn’t put on her fancy robbery hat and shawl.
Wait, what??
• “Oh, by the way, Cosette, I fired your mom for being a LYING LIAR and then she fell into poverty and died. That’s what I have to protect you always and forever from everything.”
• “Hey, let’s go for a walk at the crack of wtf o’clock and look at the prisoners. Look at them, Cosette. LOOK AT THEM. THEY ARE MEN LIKE ME.”
• That wink from the dressmaker, because we clearly didn’t get enough “Everyone thinks Valjean is a pedophile” moments last episode.
• Eponine’s little knothole stripteaseish thing
• Actually, like, pretty much every interaction she has with Marius, because Davies got this weird impression somewhere that all she does is tease Marius for being a prude by being aggressively sexy or something
• Montparnasse (Montparnassey?) wearing an unbuttoned red vest and only an unbuttoned red vest on his top.
Dear god WHY
• The dream.
• The brothel.
• Why the HECK were either of those scenes necessary???? Why was Eponine in the brothel? Why did Grantaire and Courfeyrac think that would help anything? What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fu—
Anyway. Thoughts under the cut:
Stuff that I actually liked:
• Cosette having friends at the convent! Her hugging Sister Simplice as they left! Awww!
• The turquoise doors of the house on Rue Plumet
• The contrast between Cosette and Valjean moving into the luxury of Rue Plumet vs. the next scene being Marius moving into the dark, tiny room at Gorbeau House
• Cosette: “Everyone looks so smart here!” Valjean, doubtfully looking around at early 1830s fashions: “If you say so.”
• (I am choosing to believe this is why Cosette has no sleeve plumpers — Valjean thought they looked silly and forbade her to get any)
• Marius’ fancy suspenders
• All fifteen seconds of Gavroche’s screentime
• Austere Dinnertime Sitting Ramrod Straight With Javert
• One of Thenardier’s aliases is “Genflou,” aka the name of Valjean’s Prison Boyfriend from the 1952 Hollywood movie version.
Keeping in the bit with Thenardier being like, “Oh, this menacing gangster is just a neighbor. That one, too. Just neighbors. Lots of neighbors. All gathering here. No reason.”
Kind of disappointing, but I’ll roll with it:
• “Hello, I am Fauchelevant and this is my niece.”
• Only getting Enjolras, Grantaire, and Courfeyrac (and Bossuet and…uh…let’s call him “Kevin” in that one scene) as members of ABC
• Mme. Thenardier didn’t put on her fancy robbery hat and shawl.
Wait, what??
• “Oh, by the way, Cosette, I fired your mom for being a LYING LIAR and then she fell into poverty and died. That’s what I have to protect you always and forever from everything.”
• “Hey, let’s go for a walk at the crack of wtf o’clock and look at the prisoners. Look at them, Cosette. LOOK AT THEM. THEY ARE MEN LIKE ME.”
• That wink from the dressmaker, because we clearly didn’t get enough “Everyone thinks Valjean is a pedophile” moments last episode.
• Eponine’s little knothole stripteaseish thing
• Actually, like, pretty much every interaction she has with Marius, because Davies got this weird impression somewhere that all she does is tease Marius for being a prude by being aggressively sexy or something
• Montparnasse (Montparnassey?) wearing an unbuttoned red vest and only an unbuttoned red vest on his top.
Dear god WHY
• The dream.
• The brothel.
• Why the HECK were either of those scenes necessary???? Why was Eponine in the brothel? Why did Grantaire and Courfeyrac think that would help anything? What the fuck? What the fuck? What the fu—
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Date: 2019-01-22 04:34 am (UTC)2. I now feel vindicated for not liking Davies' version of Pride & Prejudice.