Carmilla the series
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Carmilla would be worse, if it wasn't expositional.
A lot makes the show suffer. The very abbreviated filming time, 4 days for s1&2, and 5 for s3 make for very awkward or poor performances a lot. I don't think the large cast really helps the story very much. Jordan writes great personal moments for 2 or 3 characters but her work with the large cast and overall story plotting just isn't that great. That's not just a function of being a webseries, the story just has a lot of holes if given any thought. I like the light comedy stuff which really is this thing's strength.
Sorry, by "worse" I meant that Carmilla would have more graphic violence and sex than F#ckbuddies, if hey showed us all the graphic sex and violence that they promise is always happening in Carmilla that we do not see.
I was not shitting on Carmilla.
I was not shitting on Carmilla.
Oh, well, that's OK either way. I love Carmilla, but the show isn't without its faults. It needs a bigger budget to tell the story Jordan is trying to tell. It would be pretty graphic. Also, Carmilla didn't go biting Laura's neck in the novella, either. This whole thing would be a lot more graphic in every way if it were on cable.
Indeed, it was on the sternum, putting it politely.
Also, Carmilla fed on Laura as an infant, years before pulling the damsel in distress part of the plan when she was in her 20's. I don't think people would be up for that part of the story being kept either.
There are a lot of odd things in the novella. There are a number of interpretations that settle them by taking the Styrian as a metaphor for Ireland and that the story is about the fear of Anglo/Irish children turning from their British inheritance and assimilating into the Irish culture. Laura, English/Austrian and descended from the Karnsteins through her mother is tempted abandon her Anglo inheritance through her father for the ancestral Irish ruling class that she's descended from. Le Fanu had a lot of issues whichever way you cut it.
A lot of his books read strangely, I have a small publication of his ghost stories as well as Carmilla.
But given how short the story is, the semi-validity of Laura's memories and perception, it's open to a lot of interpretation as it is.
I've only watched season 1 so far, have they touched on her being able to turn into a panther yet?
But given how short the story is, the semi-validity of Laura's memories and perception, it's open to a lot of interpretation as it is.
I've only watched season 1 so far, have they touched on her being able to turn into a panther yet?
The whole collection of stories from 'In a Glass Darkly' play on memory and perception. Carmilla really might have been outside that door at the end, we don't know, only that Laura dies some time after finishing the manuscript. Natural causes, Carmilla come back, who knows, but it seems Le Fanu wanted it open to interpretation like the other stories often were.
The story has so many layers to it that you really have to question so very much. The framing prologue tells us Laura is dead to start with no cause of death given. She states that she's writing this almost a decade after the events so she is trying to recall how she felt long after the facts. Le Fanu really piles on that this story isn't one to take at face value but to question whether Laura is giving us the whole story or even can after all the time past. I wonder if Le Fanu really was trying to work past the standard omniscient narrator common to stories of the time with the 'In A Glass Darkly' tales by emphasizing how much the characters perceptions were deceived by emotion, drugs, misunderstanding and a dozen and one other ways that the facts in our heads are fictional constructs. Carmilla really plays that up with the layers of time and narrators between the events and the reader.
Carmilla: The Movie
More news from Variety http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/carmilla-vampire-movie-1201880177/
Also, Nat, Elise, and producer Steph Ouaknine, and writer Jordan Hall were at NY ComicCon. They have some interview stuff going up online.
More news from Variety http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/carmilla-vampire-movie-1201880177/
They play this with infectious enthusiasm.
To Hell, evidently.
Also, Nat, Elise, and producer Steph Ouaknine, and writer Jordan Hall were at NY ComicCon. They have some interview stuff going up online.
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I love how the trailer for the movie practically screams that they're not stuck in one room anymore: Exterior shots, multiple camera angles, a motorcycle roaring down the street, wide-open spaces!
It's like that bit in THE MUPPET MOVIE where you see Kermit riding on a bicycle. "Look what we can do now! He's not just a hand puppet anymore!"
Looks like fun.
It's like that bit in THE MUPPET MOVIE where you see Kermit riding on a bicycle. "Look what we can do now! He's not just a hand puppet anymore!"
Looks like fun.
Me too!
Same goes for the Act 3 teaser trailer. It's like they're saying "Okay. The last hurrah. Let's really go all out!"
Same goes for the Act 3 teaser trailer. It's like they're saying "Okay. The last hurrah. Let's really go all out!"
Act 3 is now available. It's kind of bittersweet. 
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