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  • Welllllll Ep 4 was kind of a mess. Courf was honestly the best thing about it <3
  • What a weird Enjolras, btw.
  • (TBH I actually like this Cosette more than book!Cosette or musical!Cosette but she is just that slight shade of OOC sometimes which is…unnerving.)
  • I understand why some of the Valjean moments happen - I think there’s been a bit of idealization of this character by fandom, but also some of it is also just a product of needing to externalize some of the things that happen in internal POV or in narrative. But then there weird shit like…Valjean taking Cosette to see the prisoners on purpose when he was clearly horrified at her having seen them in the book. Like…wtf.
  • All the sexual stuff they did with Eponine is nuts and unnecessary. Let my bb girl be.
  • The barricade scenes were actually really good! (Did not have a lot of hope for that.) Lots of great moments between Enjolras and Courf, somewhat unexpectedly.
  • But honestly…I wanted more Marius/Courf moments xD
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Les Mis 2018
Ep 1 was like “this is so much better than what you did with W&P, Davies, wtf you assholw.” And then Ep 2 was like “ok, now I can tell this is an Andrew Davies Adaptation (TM().” I still think it does its book canon more justice than the W&P adaptation did. (The casting is def way better, at the very east.) For now, anyway.

I can’t believe there are only 4 eps left though and we’ve already had 2 and Valjean hasn’t even picked up Cosette yet… The pacing is going to get FUCKED real soon isn’t it? (Or are they just gonna cut out just about everything with Les Amis? I mean they prob gotta keep at least some of it to make some of Marius’ pl’ plotline work + Eponine’s death, right? Like I know it’s not the most important part of the book or anything like that but…. Esp. given how much time they spent on Fantine/Felix when that could have easily taken up a third of the time it did.)


Vanity Fair 2018
It was gooood. Def better than the 2004 movie but I still prefer the 1998 miniseries. Dobbin is so cute in this one, I love him <3 (He and George don’t have nearly enough chemistry tho :( Also, agh, George was extra awful in this.)


Godunov 2018

I was afraid it was going to be like Sophia - visually appealing but kinda boring. However, it has been quite good! Not nearly as good as Ekaterina or Bloody Lady, but still good :D I hope they get on with it and give us season 2 soon!


Tsar Boris

Saw this on stage in Moscow the other week. Very solid production. Me being me, I spend the majority of the play kinda lowkey shipping Fyodor/Christian.

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Frustrated rant of rage re: Marius/Cosette under the cut. (I don’t even dislike either of them. It’s just….aghhhhhhh….ok, ok, all bitching under the cut so no one has to see if they don’t want to bc I’m freaking annoyed and not censoring myself. You have been warned.)

 

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Enjolras

22 (looks 17), rich, very pretty, doesn’t drink, probably gay (or ace… I wish), is a bit fanatical about the French Revolution, is kind of a prude/twat (?(.

Combeferre

An incremental progressive and pacifist, methodical and phlegmatic  

Jean Prouvaire

A romantic (!), rich, shy and a bit awkward, “intrepid.”

Feuilly

Works as a fanmaker, is preoccupied with national self-determination esp. of countries outside France, will never get over the partition of Poland apparently.

Courfeyrac

Witty, playful and good-humored (but not an asshole, mind), warm  

Bahorel

Chatty and sociable, always down for a fight apparently, spendthrift and seems to be without much direction in general, pretty smart though

Laigle (“Bossuet”)

Bald at 25, lost his inheritance in a bad speculation, always unlucky in everything, good-humored esp. in misfortune, inventive, sleeps on his friend’s couches primarily at Joly’s

Joly

23, medical student, has some weird ideas re: electrical currents and magnetism, agreeable but eccentric

Grantaire.

The skeptic, very unattractive, likes to drink and flirt with women?), basically in love with Enjolras

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