i have a lot of feelings, and theyāre hella mixed. my main boi otter hasnāt watched it yet, so iāmĀ writing all my feelings and problems here for you all to muse over. fun times.Ā
i liked a lot of stuff, actually. the dialogue was great, the acting was fabulous, and the cinematography was really good. the villain set up for feodoraĀ is amazing, as well as the relationships between victoria/feo, victoria/albert, nancy/charles, victoria/palmerston, etc. the kids were adorable, and the premise of the les misĀ subplot is really neat. iām so fucking gay for abigail, and i really liked the two leaders and irishĀ boy. footman is cool i guess, and sophieĀ as the tokenĀ ātoo hot for anyone to handleā is fine. the cheesy transitions and terrible cgiĀ havenāt changed, which is really more endearing than anything. i really liked everything up through the last 10 minutes as an objective viewer. it was funny and had really good set up for the rest of the season, buttttttttt.
also what the fuck. what. the. fuck. iām genuinely upset about a lot of things, and most of them are drumfredĀ related.Ā
alfred was a main character in the last season. a main character, and we didnāt get a catch-up with him at all. he was just kinda shoved back to his s1 role of background necessity and occasional lighthearted quip guy, which is so incredibly bad. of courseĀ iām speaking from a fangirl pov, because my boy, but from a story pov, it makes no sense. itās nuts to just drop such an important character from the last season with absolutely nothing. just one scene where we see what heās been up to, where the hell wilhelminaĀ is, and how heās dealing with the lack of drummondĀ in his life would have been enough. i wrote a lengthy post defending the story choice of killing drummond off, and i still stand by a lot of that in the sense of character motivations and moving onwards with the story, but if they continue with thisĀ āeh, letās forget about itā thing, iāmĀ gonna be so pissed. ughghghghghghg. and not to mention dropping mina! not even a word as to her whereabouts, and she and alfred are engaged and she was a main-ish character too. good god. they spent so much time with so many new characters that we really donāt need and/or care about when they could have been building off the preexisting importantĀ stories and characters.Ā Ā
also, what happened to victoriaāsĀ character development? s1 was her relationship with albert and becoming comfortable in her place as queen, s2 was her learning to sympathize with the public. and now what? it seemed to me that a lot of her sympathy towards the lower classes that they spent literal episodes building up just got thrown to the wind in favor of drama.Ā
long story short here, too much emphasis on new characters no one has the time to care about instead of building on the good stuff they already had, and too much soap-opera drama at the end. i thought that they should have made this a two-parter, making sure to stick with theĀ āa lesson an episodeā theme of the last two seasons, as its really the only way to handle a story as long and generally plotless as the real victoriaās, with underlying, longer character driven subplots to tie everything together.Ā
i may like it more once more episodes start to come out and i can watch them all in order, and i may be judging too early, but there are some serious story and style flaws in this episode that are kinda telling for me as to the rest of the season. iām still in love with abigail and palmerston and alfred looked like a fucking god the entire time in the background, but that bitch was in the background nonetheless. ughghghghghghghghhghg.
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