Down with bonnets!

[erastes]

The BBC announces: "The corporation is to move away from traditional 19th century costume dramas in favour of a grittier look at the period and a new focus on other historical eras."

*hopes for Transgressions-the series*  :)

In Wolverine and the X-men...Oh, happy sigh. Gambit's turned up. Is there Gambit/Wolverine? I suppose there must be somewhere.



help the hatching!

Comments

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

Oh YAY!!!!!!

Grit is good!

They must have seen the Devil's whore and kicked themselves!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

TDW was marvellous. The plot kind of fizzled, but the costumes and the photography.... *drools*

[the-sea-to.livejournal.com]

Yes. Very much. It was like.. plot? I don't care! THERE IS PRETTY ON THE TELLy!

[kittymay.livejournal.com]

*hopes along with you and fantasisies about who would play Alvisi in Standish - The Movie*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I'd like Rufus Sewell.

[kittymay.livejournal.com]

Oh YES! He's a favourite of mine especially in Middlemarch *'splodes from just thinking of it*

[hybridartifacts.livejournal.com]

The BBC has an amazing wealth of costume drama experience, but I feel it often squanders it in the pursuit of 'classic literature'.
But then I often find our relationship with the past is a very narrow one, blinkered by the costume drama as a 'genre' (and a general inability to mix genres creatively) along with a very modern view of the past.

What I liked about the Devil's Whore was that it had a fair degree of spit and grime to it that most costume dramas (pre Dickens) lack- they forget (or tactfully ignore) that sometimes the centuries they inhabit were ridden with syphilitic gin soaked failures, fine ladies that spat on the floor, brigands and bold lunatics. What I would like to see is some fantasy/sci-fi costume drama though - an Elizabethan age of oak populated with fey beings and strange realms or Templars hiding the secret of ancient space beings. A little imagination. I would love to see the craftsmanship of those traditional costume dramas injected into the fantastical as well, because all too often fantasy/sci-fi on TV is, sadly a bit crap - crassly written and campily directed.

Alas-I fear I dream dreams that will not see the light of day, not the flickering television landscapes of darkened rooms and cracked tea cups.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

You've got a point there, I'd like to see a Regency done more in the style of The Rakes progress . A stylish steampunk would be good too.