Ripper Street
Jan. 6th, 2013 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightSo, any of my fellow Brits watching Ripper Street?
S and I caught up with the first episode on iPlayer the other night. Really enjoyed it, and it has definite fannish potential, I feel (not to mention rating high on the slashometer).
Am pretty sure it'll be shown in the US at some point. The inclusion of an American character (former Pinkerton agent) makes it pretty clear it's been made with the US market in mind.
S and I caught up with the first episode on iPlayer the other night. Really enjoyed it, and it has definite fannish potential, I feel (not to mention rating high on the slashometer).
Am pretty sure it'll be shown in the US at some point. The inclusion of an American character (former Pinkerton agent) makes it pretty clear it's been made with the US market in mind.
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Date: 2013-01-06 11:01 pm (UTC)I think it is being shown on BBC America from the 19th.
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Date: 2013-01-07 12:24 am (UTC)Slash potential, though? My mind boggles!
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Date: 2013-01-07 09:55 am (UTC)I agree. Joseph Gilgun was bloody terrifying!
As for slash, the fact that the three main characters are male and that there's a sort of love/hate thing going on between them is really all the material you need.
I shan't be writing it (I confine my slashiness to the Buffyverse), but someone will.
Also, I must admit another reason why I like the show is for its Buffyverse crossover potential. Spike, Dru, Darla and Angelus could slot into that world so easily. Darla already has the hat.
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Date: 2013-01-07 01:00 pm (UTC)And with a gang of children, because -- under those circumstances -- children have no boundaries.
...all the material you need
Sad, when both Reid and Jackson have such complex relationships with women, which would repay fannish exploration...
The setting's wonderful. I especially like the costumes, which seem much more 'real' than usual. I couldn't decide whether I liked the language or not, but I think it had paid off by the end of the second episode.
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Date: 2013-01-07 01:07 pm (UTC)Sad, when both Reid and Jackson have such complex relationships with women, which would repay fannish exploration...
No reason why people can't do both.
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Date: 2013-01-07 02:48 pm (UTC)No. But in my experience, in most of the fandoms I participate in, they don't.
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Date: 2013-01-07 02:48 pm (UTC)No. But in my experience, in most of the fandoms I participate in, they don't.
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Date: 2013-01-07 09:56 am (UTC)Yay!
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Date: 2013-01-08 06:20 am (UTC)We certainly enjoyed it. Interesting use of the technological revolution and intriguing hints of dangerous back stories for two of the main characters.
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Date: 2013-01-07 03:53 pm (UTC)It's worth the wait so far.
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Date: 2013-01-07 06:23 pm (UTC)There does, however, need to be more Rose. And Sarah Bernhardt.
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Date: 2013-01-07 06:31 pm (UTC)I've only seen the second of those Holmes movies but I do get the similarities. I also agree there needs to be more for the female characters to do -though I doubt it'll happen. It's more than just a Victorian buddy cop show, but it's pretty clear the show will revolve around the relationship between the three male characters. Not that the female characters aren't interesting. They are. We'll see. So far, I think it's great, and I like the fact that Reid is so determined to get out from under the shadow of the Ripper and not let his rampage continue by proxy, as it were. Only way to beat him really, given that he was never caught.
I'm much happier with this off-the-cuff nod to overwritten Victorian prose. :D
Me too. And it's eight episodes. I thought it was only going to be three, like Sherlock (to which I much prefer it already).
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Date: 2013-01-07 06:51 pm (UTC)and doesn't drag like the second oneand b) because (hopefully!) you'll see what I mean. The film kicks off with a fight in a backroom - Sherlock throwing punches and Watson (IIRC) rolling his eyes at the side. And there's a load of violin music.Yeah, I don't hold out much hope for the female characters either, but I did like the Jewish orphanage woman. And deffo prefer it to Sherlock - if only because it praises the teamwork and varying skills of all three of the main blokes, rather than giving us boy genius and his presumably!straight man.
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Date: 2013-01-07 08:17 pm (UTC)I know what you mean. Generally speaking, the only ep of Sherlock I've really enjoyed was the first one, and that's because it was Watson that saved the day.
With Ripper Street, it helps (helps me anyway) that none of the three male leads is actually a misogynist. Jackson Wotsit (can't remember his surname) may have slapped Long Susan, but they're definitely equals.
Was the first Holmes film slashier than the second, because I find that hard to believe? Don't think I've ever seen anything that didn't play so blatantly to the slashers.
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Date: 2013-01-08 02:41 pm (UTC)And Ripper Street is definitely interesting and has potential to be more. Must pull ep 2 from iPlayer!
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Date: 2013-01-09 11:51 am (UTC)Please feel free to unfriend again if you get bored. :)
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Date: 2013-01-09 02:07 pm (UTC)I am an RSPB member, and I do tick new birds off when I see them, but that's really the limit of my involvement at the moment.
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Date: 2013-01-09 08:35 pm (UTC)I'm not terribly into going out birdwatching, but I do know a reasonable amount, and we have feeders in the back garden and so forth. Nice steady crowd of goldfinches.