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So, the new series of LoM started this evening - I watched the second ep as well when it was shown on BBC4 - and I noticed something that struck me as interesting. Because I'm a dork, and all that. Also, I must remember to ask my brother if he noticed too, because he does take note of that sort of stuff - that's part of what his degree is all about. Or perhaps this is only the kind of thing you'll spot if you're an obsessive fan who has watched the first season seventy billion times, and spent hours looking at screencaps and making icons, etc etc etc.
Anyway, my point is, I think lots of people commented last year that they seem to have a very specific way of framing shots on the show. But from watching just the first episode of the second season, it seemed to me that they're not only framing shots the same way as last year... they're using the exact same set-ups. If you took a screencap, you couldn't tell it from certain season 1 screencaps. The actors are dressed the same, posed in the same way, standing or sitting in the same way in relation to one another. It's downright spooky! And then there are verbal repetitions from season 1 as well. ( Spoilers for 2x01 and the trailer for 2x02 )
I do wonder if this is a really sneaky way of harking back to Sam's original idea right back in the first episode that he should walk out of the police station and just keep going until his brain stopped being able to make up new details. Because it threw me while I was watching 2x01 - gave me just the tiniest moments of "hang on here, which episode am I watching?!" - and it was reinforced all the more in 2x02 when the visual repetitions from the first season seemed to continue. Another subliminal way of questioning the reality of the 1973-verse, perhaps? So, definitely something I'm going to watch out for over the rest of this season. And try not to be too freaked out by, because, woah stoppitnow, dizzy! ;-)
Huh, check that out... did I actually make some meta observations that I got around to typing up and posting? I think I might have done!
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( And now general squeeage for 2x01 (do I have to warn for slash goggles?) )
Yup, this show pretty much fills my little heart with fannish joy, both on the character love and shipper level. It's all good as far as I'm concerned.
I may have more to say when I can watch it again. Happily, I've had a call from the aerial man about coming to fit the TV point, so hopefully by next week, I'll be able to video it to watch again at my leisure. Don't ask me why I can just about get the telly tuned in but not the video, but I'm just thankful I've got that much since I had no signal at all to start with. It's taken much dragging around of the telly, addition of extension leads, and precarious balancing of the booster aerial to get this much. But anyway. Shutting up now!
(Why yes, I am listening to my unofficial complete LoM S1 music soundtrack. Wheeeee!)
Anyway, my point is, I think lots of people commented last year that they seem to have a very specific way of framing shots on the show. But from watching just the first episode of the second season, it seemed to me that they're not only framing shots the same way as last year... they're using the exact same set-ups. If you took a screencap, you couldn't tell it from certain season 1 screencaps. The actors are dressed the same, posed in the same way, standing or sitting in the same way in relation to one another. It's downright spooky! And then there are verbal repetitions from season 1 as well. ( Spoilers for 2x01 and the trailer for 2x02 )
I do wonder if this is a really sneaky way of harking back to Sam's original idea right back in the first episode that he should walk out of the police station and just keep going until his brain stopped being able to make up new details. Because it threw me while I was watching 2x01 - gave me just the tiniest moments of "hang on here, which episode am I watching?!" - and it was reinforced all the more in 2x02 when the visual repetitions from the first season seemed to continue. Another subliminal way of questioning the reality of the 1973-verse, perhaps? So, definitely something I'm going to watch out for over the rest of this season. And try not to be too freaked out by, because, woah stoppitnow, dizzy! ;-)
Huh, check that out... did I actually make some meta observations that I got around to typing up and posting? I think I might have done!
***
( And now general squeeage for 2x01 (do I have to warn for slash goggles?) )
Yup, this show pretty much fills my little heart with fannish joy, both on the character love and shipper level. It's all good as far as I'm concerned.
I may have more to say when I can watch it again. Happily, I've had a call from the aerial man about coming to fit the TV point, so hopefully by next week, I'll be able to video it to watch again at my leisure. Don't ask me why I can just about get the telly tuned in but not the video, but I'm just thankful I've got that much since I had no signal at all to start with. It's taken much dragging around of the telly, addition of extension leads, and precarious balancing of the booster aerial to get this much. But anyway. Shutting up now!
(Why yes, I am listening to my unofficial complete LoM S1 music soundtrack. Wheeeee!)
