Be nice.

It was brilliant, suspenseful and satisfying and David Tennant really added to the whole episode with his portrayal of an absolutely sick fucking bastard. The story seemed all too real, and so did the characters. The character of Edgar seemed to be written to a T to how someone like him would behave in real life.

I think due to a combination of brilliant writing and acting, David Tennant was totally mesmerizing to watch; the whole time I was trying to decide if he was guilty or not, watching his every move, watching him face off with the detectives.

I liked the noir detective style, and I liked Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones. Jessica proved with every choice she made how moral and good she was despite everything she’d suffered. She can be incredibly funny and is nearly always cool-headed despite her super strength. I felt like I knew her and was rooting for her by the end of it.

I think it’s partly how it had a lot of suspense and some really great moments… like the girl holding her finger up to her lips while in the grips of a vampire, or the nerd friend showing up turned and delivering an eBay package. Or the vampire standing just behind the threshold to get the pack of beer. I knew the tropes but I never knew what was going to happen.

And literally all the actors are really great, so good I’m surprised they’re all together for a movie like this and I felt in for a treat.

David Tennant was a hilarious supporting character that added a lot of fun and interest to the story… I enjoyed pretty much every moment he was on screen. I liked his Vincent getup, he looked so cool in black eyeliner, and I liked the character in the fight scenes, especially when he was cursing and knocking screaming wraiths aside. The bit where he started smoking because he was turning was such a cool bit of lore too.

It’s… it’s alright but I think possibly the tone of it seems weird or off to me, and so it doesn’t completely draw me in.

The start of the movie was cool because I like the protagonist Sean and how he had bitten off more than he can chew with this serial killer who seems both completely evil and totally unassailable. David Tennant standing there with a dead expression on his face is a true jump scare.

But then, what Cale is doing to Katie is factually really horrifying and dark, and he is sometimes frightening in a realistic way but… his pathology is sometimes hammy and full of tropes. Yeah, yeah “freedom” means death… he’s treating her like a horse and he has a thing about control… Everything felt both uncomfortable and predictable rather than horrifying. I felt like I had little to go on when it came to truly knowing who this guy was, and instead he felt like a collection of serial killer tropes thrown together.

Katie came across as scared but not extremely traumatized to me and that was both reassuring and further confused the tone of the movie for me. I felt like she was resilient not quite because the character was finding it in herself… but because it’d be too horrifying to watch otherwise.

There’s plenty of bits I like though. I liked the connection between Sean and Katie. I liked Cale and Katie’s exchange in the cabin’s bathroom, where it shown that this was wasn’t a sexual thing for him, and it was slightly comical. That moment worked for me and I learned a little more about both Katie and Cale. I also like the shot at the end, that seemed suitably messed-up and a fitting end for Cale.

This play is completely, totally fucked This was a brilliant play and David Tennant was brilliant. I did not know what the play was about going into it, only that it was vaguely about the morality of an ordinary man during WWII. I didn’t know I was about to watch an actual Nazi actually plan mass murder and make excuses for some of the most heinous things a human being can do while remaining relatable and convinced he was a good person in the most plaintive, reasonable way.

But on rewatch, when I listen to how he talks about the bands and how he talks to himself and how he is detached from reality, which is frightening with how relatable it is... (I talk to myself! I’ve felt detached! Indecisive! Guilty and in love at the same time!)

When I hear the things he says that are totally hypocritical and self-deceptive… he’s doing it for his kids and wife but he leaves his kids and wife. His book about killing his mother is him venting during a difficult time in life but he is going to use the credentials it gives him to implement the fictional ideas for real and help make execution chambers. He looks into the eyes of his only friend and he won’t save his life.

…I realize this guy is fucking delusional. He is detached from reality and sleep walking his way into becoming a monster without for a moment reflecting on what he is doing. What a repulsive piece of human garbage.

I wonder whether the only reason I haven’t descended to his level is purely due to the luck of not being in his circumstances, and I wonder to what extent I have already descended to his level. The play has showed me it doesn’t matter what you think and what you say… in the end it’s what you are willing to do, your action or inaction that matters. I think in the end you have to do something. It will not be enough but it will be something.

Yes!! YES!! They made it! They had me when he was going to meet Estella - and they really, truly had me when Fogg realized he had an extra day!

You get an extra day for going around the world the opposite way… one of my favourite facts! This is the best feel-good show ever!

I thought the parts set in America had some of the better stories and side characters. I believed Abigail and Passeportout’s love story, and Fogg’s story with Estella. I love how the ending was about their friendship. Fogg’s broken free now, and he’s found friends he could really be happy with.

I’d meant to mention it earlier but I also liked how beautifully it was shot… and I found myself getting kind of titillated by the music and found out of course Hans Zimmer had helped write the theme.