Carmilla the series

[Greg Cox]

You have a point. I think Laura has always been trying to sweep Carmilla's past under the rug because she doesn't want to deal with or acknowledge it, and it came back to bite her (the Mattie situation).

Bingo. And I think that's why Laura is so fixated on the idea that Carmilla has "changed" no matter how much Carma keeps denying it.

Because if Carmilla has "changed," then Laura can keep telling herself that Carm's troublesome past doesn't matter anymore.

And the more Mattie keeps rubbing Carmilla's past and true nature in Laura's face, the more Laura keeps pushing the "vampire redeemed by love" scenario she's got running in her head . . ..

Laura seemed to keep coming back only to the blood sucking fiend aspect which Mattie did not much to discourage, but played with as a rather vampire troll on Laura. I saw her main point being that Laura's ideas of right and wrong were fixed in her time. To a vampire, all of that will pass and change as it has for Mattie and Laura down through the centuries. Carmilla made the same point in a more romanticized way when she was giving her back story to Laura in season one.

On the other hand, one can argue that Mattie is in denial about who Carmilla is and what drives her. She keeps expecting Carm to "grow up" and put aside these endless adolescent crushes, but clearly that's never going to happen . . ..

Carmilla doesn't care about politics and power plays. As Guy put it, she's in love with falling in love. That's what gets her through the centuries.

(I like that she's a philosophy major, btw. Makes sense that an ageless immortal would want to ponder the mysteries of existence.)

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

There hasn't been any mention of Laura's mother in the series.

Guy, you never answered my question: did you watch through the credits?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Yes ma'am.

I saw the end that you SPOILED in the very first post here in this thread.

Perry did not do it for me as an a-list character.

She was wallpaper.

I'm glad the actress levelled up to a more dynamic character to play with.

It's really weird because, "Perry" started I dunno, grooming better after the change. That seems like a horrible thing to say, but it's almost like there was an intervention off set, and the end result was that Annie agreed to stop cutting her own hair.

(Laura also briefly became three times as attractive as anywhenelse in the production, when she was possessed by the Dean.)

(There's Something about Evil.)

When I go see a movie, where I know that there is a tag at the end, and I see stupid people leaving pre-tag, I wonder if it's worth intruding on these stupid people, getting between them and the exit, until they think I'm crazy and order an usher to throw me out, or if it's best just to let them go back to their $40,000 car and complete their remedial lives without seeing Thanos.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I never liked her as a character either. Perry's sense of style definitely got better. Laura is always attractive. So is Danny, I loved her side braid. SO glad she's alive. Poor Kirsh is even more confused than ever!

Evil is SEXY.

 

[Guy Gardener]

"Attractive" is way too small a word for what Danny has going on.

Did she turn Kirsh, or eat him?

Are we sure she's a vampire?

The Dean used to be a witch Vampire, but now she's a witch human.

Zombie seems more likely than Vampire given the resources available to a witch who is not a Vampire.

Kirsh is dead.

If Danny is a Zombie and not a Vampire, then he was eaten, not drunk.

There is a spectrum for Zombie intelligence crosslore, so Danny could be mostly the same person as she was in season one and two moving forward, except that she eats brains and doesn't breathe anymore.

(Regardless of logic, she's probably a Vampire?)

Have you tried the horror comedy iZombie?

The lead is a kiwi, so she's using one of those Xena accents you like so much.

%70 candyfloss, vs. %30 running & severed body parts.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Agree about Danny! I think she was just chowing down. I bet he's still okay. I have no idea about the Dean. I wonder where J.P. is? I can't remember.

I've been meaning to check out iZombie but first I'm going to see about Spartacus. It's finally on Netflix!

Speaking of Xena, the iZombie actress was actually in an episode (season 5's Little Problems).

 

[Gov Kodos]

Bingo. And I think that's why Laura is so fixated on the idea that Carmilla has "changed" no matter how much Carma keeps denying it.

Because if Carmilla has "changed," then Laura can keep telling herself that Carm's troublesome past doesn't matter anymore.

And the more Mattie keeps rubbing Carmilla's past and true nature in Laura's face, the more Laura keeps pushing the "vampire redeemed by love" scenario she's got running in her head . . ..

Laura seemed to keep coming back only to the blood sucking fiend aspect which Mattie did not much to discourage, but played with as a rather vampire troll on Laura. I saw her main point being that Laura's ideas of right and wrong were fixed in her time. To a vampire, all of that will pass and change as it has for Mattie and Laura down through the centuries. Carmilla made the same point in a more romanticized way when she was giving her back story to Laura in season one.

On the other hand, one can argue that Mattie is in denial about who Carmilla is and what drives her. She keeps expecting Carm to "grow up" and put aside these endless adolescent crushes, but clearly that's never going to happen . . ..

Carmilla doesn't care about politics and power plays. As Guy put it, she's in love with falling in love. That's what gets her through the centuries.

(I like that she's a philosophy major, btw. Makes sense that an ageless immortal would want to ponder the mysteries of existence.)

Agreed. This season did a good job of giving the leads some differing viewpoints from which to create conflict. Laura's confession about being blinded to anything but her own view of what was the right way to go was equally true for Mattie, the Baron, Danny, and Carm. It made the series less light hearted than the first season, but a more satisfying drama.

Carmilla does retain a lot of that teen going to the ball looking for romance that she died with. I wonder if the writers are thinking the persons psychological state at death imprints a temperament or template on a vampire? In a sense, she is an eternal 18 year old, and Mattie doesn't understand that as you say.

 

[Greg Cox]

Agree about Danny! I think she was just chowing down. I bet he's still okay. I have no idea about the Dean. I wonder where J.P. is? I can't remember.

I've been meaning to check out iZombie but first I'm going to see about Spartacus. It's finally on Netflix!

Speaking of Xena, the iZombie actress was actually in an episode (season 5's Little Problems).

If you like Carmilla, you should definitely check out iZombie. You've got a similar mixture of horror, angst, and snarky humor.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I intend to. There's just so many shows I have to watch, it's a bit overwelming.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Figure out how long you want to live, how long you might live, split the difference then subtract how much you'd like to sleep, and that's the surplus life you have available to watch TV, wait in lines or raise children.

D.I.N.K. = Dual Income, No Kids.

(Edit.)

Trying MsLabelled.

Same visual format. Well they have a second webcam... Are these shows really filmed on Web cams? (I don't think so?) It starts with a terrified young woman agog about the end of her (figurative) world as she is cursing and panicking about the traitorousness leading to her workplace ruin: 6 Months Earlier, Ella is a bright eyed naive assistant at a New York(?) Fashion Label, and it is her first day of work.

"Like Hamlet said: Is this a dagger which I see before me?"



Just finished 6 episodes of Snafu (it's a small season.) which is about a trainwreck of a woman leading a hopelessly inconsiderate life. It's way better than the movie Trainwreck, which is about Amy Schumer leading a hopelessly inconsiderate life, but way more grounded than the version of Sarah Silverman from The Sarah Silverman Program which is also about a trainwreck of a woman leading a hopelessly inconsiderate life.

There are worse places, I suppose, to be than sandwiched between Sarah and Amy.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

That's really confusing! I'd like to live to be 90 provided I still have my marbles and mobility. Kids. I'm extremely torn with that. I'm 95% sure I don't want them. So much responsibility. Not to be taken lightly. At this point I can't even keep a plant alive. I think in the long run, I'd rather be an aunt but you know, never say never.

I don't think they are filmed with webcams but I could be wrong. MsLabelled sounds interesting.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Oh say never, say never, never, never.

Never.

No one's tiny hands should be that sticky, always.

It's like they're born with their own supply of jelly.

But worst of all... You have to wait 20 years minimum before you can borrow serious money off them!

Inconsiderate Losers!



I started and finished (tiny, 5 episodes.) watching "I Do".

It's barely a wikihow by a pretty blonde/bland girl to talk about specialty weddings.

No drama, no pathos, no comedy.

Fail.

Although it did teach me a new word: "Tablescape"

My spellcheck is saying that that word a lying asshole.

It's not a word!

(My spellcheck also thinks that "spellcheck", "webseries" "specialty" and "asshole" are not words either.)

If you do want to watch a good webseries about a wedding and the calamitous honeymoon period following, then may I suggest Husbands because it's about two dudes getting married and the different gueststars every week are somehow a buch of actors from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Battlestar Galactica.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Which is why I think being an aunt is better! Plus your house is always spotless.

I haven't heard of Husbands but it sounds funny.

Okay so here is my "watch list", tonight I'm going to try Spartacus. I'm a little iffy on the excess violence and gore so we'll see how that goes. Depending on if I want to continue or not, next will be iZombie, and then Husbands. Oh and I also want to watch Spy, starring Melissa McCarthy. She always brings the laughs.

So I guess no sleep for a while!

*Not doing this all in one night, just to be clear.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Just to be clear, Caroline Jones could do it one night.

PS

Husbands is 15 episodes x 3 minutes.

There's almost more credits than content.

Oh, and on a technical side, if any of you are going to watch a lot of Youtube, or marathon youtube, maybe I'd suggest looking into low intensity idiot proof youtube downloader, because the interface at the website is little labour intensive if some "person" convinces you to watch 70 micro-movies in a day and a half.

Carpel Tunnel is real.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

It's actually Carolyn not Caroline btw. Contrary to what my avatar displays, I'm not her. Though I wish I could be Tish, for a day. Such elegance and sophistication!

Well seeing as Husbands is a fairly short series, I think maybe I'll start with that.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The final Verve Girl TV series is Called Long Story, Short (MsLabelled is only 2 episodes into it's second season, so I'm not saying that the "company" has shut down, just that I have made my way through all their current product.) and it seems to be a remake of Sex and the City, but set in Toronto, cast with 22 year olds, and contains far, far, far more swearing.

"I hate balls. They freak me out. They're always changing sizes."

Long Story, Short seems to be about a girl trying to reclaim an old boyfriend while her friends, over coffee, are at odds as to whether this is a good idea, or a bad idea. The writer/lead actress swears that this is mostly real life #### that happened to her, but all I'm thinking is that I'm watching "Carey loves Big" again.

(The friends also have difficult love lives, that's covered in later episodes.)

Wait? You can watermark dick picks with an app now?

You understand what that means right? You make (and sentd out) a hundred copies of a picture of your dick (this passes for modern romance today, and between consenting adults is not perverse.) after watermarking each jpeg #1 through to #100. This is how you know which one (/how many) of your "girlfriends" put your dick online and can't be trusted.

That's ####ed up and paranoid, or entirely necessary in this modern world?

Oh my, I'm looking at two of the male leads from Strange Days at Blake Holsey High hanging out in this webiseries, 7 years after the show was cancelled. They're still RL friends? That's pretty cool.

This webseries gets a C+, because there's a heavy moral bitchslap at the end.

Do I really gotta wait a year for more Carmilla?

####.

Season Zero?

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEWjiFGOJMo[/yt]

22nd of October.

ICAN'TWAITTHATLONG!!!!

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Yeah, if it's like SATC, then I think I'll skip it. I hated that show!

Season Zero is only about a week away. Surely you have a few shows during the week to tide you over until then.

I watched seasons 1 and 2 of Husbands. It had me bursting with laughter! Joss Whedon playing a homophobic jerk is priceless! Going to start (and finish) season 3 sometime today.

Thanks for telling me about it

Then I'll try and hunt down iZombie, which might be a challenge because it's not on Neflix.

I watched a few trailers of Spartacus. It's just a bit too gory for me.

 

[Guy Gardener]

A Week?

In protest, I've already thrown my monitor out a window, into the pool.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Well technically 8 days. No need to take out your frustrations on the poor monitor. That's what pillows are for!

You have a pool? Cool.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Funny story.

Yes there's a pool... But because some morons tried to clean it themselves, by removing all the water, the pursing rim acted like a contracting sphincter and ...No we kind'a don't have a pool.