girlofprey

I went to London last weekend. After some running around trying to get my benefits forms in. Which I did, mostly, except for a few extra things I have to chase one of my temp agencies up for and something the Jobcentre ought to have sent to the Council now. But anyway. London. I stayed with

nerdcakes and learned all the glories of Ealing. It was quite brill, I met up with K on Saturday morning and we caught up, which was lovely. She does puppet-making now, and has a new boyfriend, all of which is quite pleasing for her, I think. Then after that

nerdcakes and I went into London looking for the Irregular Choice shop, accidentally found the London Octopus shop while doing so, then wandered through Soho, stopping into a "Vintage" poster and magazine shop, and then found the London Forbidden Planet shop. Which has Futurama keyrings you can't seem to find on the Forbidden Planet website. Hmph.

Then that evening we went to a new staging of the Jonathon Miller production of Rigoletto, wherein the characters are all gangsters from the 1950s. It was good, amazing sets, and often quite hilarious. But also fairly sad and a bit sexist, but I knew the story beforehand so I was expecting that. The next day I went to see the same company's production of Turandot, which was also great, again amazing sets, but which was a bit more dramatic and violent than Rigoletto. On the whole I think I preferred Turandot, but it had a lot of the same tragedy and sexist issues. But then given when they were both written it's hard to expect to much in that respect. Anyway, I did really enjoy them, hurrah. And in between the two of them

nerdcakes and I watched Some Like It Hot. I love Marilyn Monroe. I came to love Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. I love Jerry more than I can probably say. It was win.

Anyway. Since then, I watched the end of Harper's Island. I kind of guessed that it might be Henry, except that I was never sure if his weird behaviour was a double bluff, and what even was odd behaviour and what was just weird acting. But oh. He was Abby's brother all along. Which I also kind of guessed, since they look quite a lot like each other. Even though neither of them actually look like any of their parents - and I'm pretty sure that having brown eyes when both your parents have blue eyes (like Callum Keith Rennie and Sarah in the last episode do) is fairly difficult. But anyway. I was genuinely expecting Henry, if he was the killer, to be trying to convince Abby to join him and John Wakefield, and then after he literally said it that he was trying to kill Abby, so the of the last episode ending was actually a suprise to me. It was sort of lovely, if yes, quite twisted and crazy. Also, her boyfriend should clearly have died at the end. I guess they were trying to portray it all as some big love story, but we all know the true love story on the show was between Chloe and Cal. Don't even try to compete, other two.

But I kind of, after some thought, ended up taking a JD-centric stance on the ending. I know it's weird, he's sort of the kind of character I usually like, everyone else probably hates him. He is a bit weird, but I did like him. And I know it was quite a hard situation at the end there and Trish kind of mentioned it a bit, but I find it a bit weird that no-one made more of a thing about Henry having KILLED HIS ALBEIT ADOPTIVE YOUNGER BROTHER IN ORDER TO BE WITH HIS HALF-SISTER/BEST FRIEND WHATEVER. THAT IS SCREWED UP. It's not even like JD had been lying to him about it, he probably didn't know I can only assume. And I know he was a bit annoying and whiny, but maybe he actually had a point about feeling like no-one cared about him if his brother was a bit of a psycho who kept secretly going off to do murders with his newfound real dad. And other things.

I want to watch the episodes I missed at the beginning (or near it) to see what JD and Henry's relationship was actually like. I kind of just want to rewatch it all. And to try to work out the timelines a bit, although they probably didn't go into it that much on the show. But if JD and his dad were visiting the scarred deputy man after John Wakefield's first set of killings, and John Wakefield found Henry and told him who he was only a year after that, did Henry's parents die after John Wakefield told him he was his son? If so, it makes their deaths look a bit suspicious. And it means that Henry saved JD from killing himself after that as well. Which kind of bit painful to think about, given how it ended up between them.

I know it was all quite fucked up in other ways, Henry did kill Trish and his best friends too. I just am a little more interested in screwed-up family dynamics. I want the AU, or alternate version they could yet make, Harper's Island people, where Abby dies accidentally somehow maybe, and the finale is a showdown between JD and Henry. He knew where that ex-deputy man's cabin was (well, before it burned down), and he probably taught JD a few tricks about surviving in the woods, he might have been able to stick it out. Or the AU where Abby and JD both survive, and have to team up against their "brother". Mostly I envision some incest/uousness in both these situations, but it's not like the show itself didn't sort of suggest a bit of that.

In conclusion: I probably am reading a bit too much into Harper's Island. Tra la la.

And I watched the newest episode of True Blood. Why does it please me so much that Sookie is a virgin, due to her power making it difficult, while her brother is pretty much sleeping his way around the town? I don't know, but it does :)