And you thought twits were invented on the internet
Monday, October 19th, 2015 07:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serai.
So I'm rewatching Penny Dreadful, since the Season 2 DVDs are coming from Netflix, and discovering nuances I hadn't seen before, and one of them I'm finding more and more amusing the longer I think about it.
It was in watching the episode where Vanessa kills Sir Fuckface for being...well, a steaming pile of shit as we all know, that it occurred to me how fucking hysterically clueless that guy was. (The Monty Python thing about the upper class twits jibes so well here.)
Look at the death itself. He's attacked and killed by his own dogs as a result of Vanessa casting a spell. But here's the thing: she didn't enspell him. She did not call out "You will die." Not specific enough, spells don't work like that. You have to say exactly what you want, you have to have good aim. That spell was not thrown at him at all - it was thrown at his dogs. She didn't ask for him to die. She told them to kill him.
Now, setting aside the storytelling symmetry of dogs and wolves and all that, think about the previous scene in which Ethan and Vanessa are out walking and Fuckface rides up and gives way to a fit of sneering so intense it's a wonder his lips didn't crawl right off his face. It's an almost comical performance, so utterly oblivious to what's right in front of it, that the result really is a delight. I'm not talking about Ethan being a werewolf and Vanessa being a bride of the devil. I'm talking about what this guy knows to be a fact: that she's a witch.
Think about that for a moment. She's a witch. A witch. With powers. He knows that. Now ask yourself one question:
How fucking stupid do you have to be to tell a witch all about how lethal your dogs are?
Oblivious! There he is on his horse, bragging about his murderous dogs, how they've been trained, what he's done to make them monstrous. A nice litany of details on how he's molded them, on what they respond to. To a witch. A fucking WITCH. It just boggles me how anyone could be so blinkered.
But that's the wealthy for you. Thinking that because they own everything, that they necessarily know everything. Too fucking clueless to live.
Lolol. Love it.
.
So I'm rewatching Penny Dreadful, since the Season 2 DVDs are coming from Netflix, and discovering nuances I hadn't seen before, and one of them I'm finding more and more amusing the longer I think about it.
It was in watching the episode where Vanessa kills Sir Fuckface for being...well, a steaming pile of shit as we all know, that it occurred to me how fucking hysterically clueless that guy was. (The Monty Python thing about the upper class twits jibes so well here.)
Look at the death itself. He's attacked and killed by his own dogs as a result of Vanessa casting a spell. But here's the thing: she didn't enspell him. She did not call out "You will die." Not specific enough, spells don't work like that. You have to say exactly what you want, you have to have good aim. That spell was not thrown at him at all - it was thrown at his dogs. She didn't ask for him to die. She told them to kill him.
Now, setting aside the storytelling symmetry of dogs and wolves and all that, think about the previous scene in which Ethan and Vanessa are out walking and Fuckface rides up and gives way to a fit of sneering so intense it's a wonder his lips didn't crawl right off his face. It's an almost comical performance, so utterly oblivious to what's right in front of it, that the result really is a delight. I'm not talking about Ethan being a werewolf and Vanessa being a bride of the devil. I'm talking about what this guy knows to be a fact: that she's a witch.
Think about that for a moment. She's a witch. A witch. With powers. He knows that. Now ask yourself one question:
How fucking stupid do you have to be to tell a witch all about how lethal your dogs are?
Oblivious! There he is on his horse, bragging about his murderous dogs, how they've been trained, what he's done to make them monstrous. A nice litany of details on how he's molded them, on what they respond to. To a witch. A fucking WITCH. It just boggles me how anyone could be so blinkered.
But that's the wealthy for you. Thinking that because they own everything, that they necessarily know everything. Too fucking clueless to live.
Lolol. Love it.
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