Ugghhhhh, I still feel unclean after last weeks episode, I had to shower for about an hour afterwards to get the creepy feelings off me. Still, as creepy as it was at least that episode gave me many thoughts and feelings to talk about, todays episode gave me almost no feelings at all, in fact this mini series as a whole is making me feel kinda empty inside.
OK so basically in tonights episode shit started to go down in Paris, yes the revolution is beginning! Do I care?........
No, not really. You know why? Because this mini series hasn't really given us a chance to know what the Les Amis boys are fighting for, or why, or even given us a chance to get the know the boys beyond their names. Say what you want about the brick of a novel or the musical but at least it made you actually like these boys. Or at least I think so, maybe you have different opinions on the subject. You know at least in the musical I could tell who everyone was, apart from brief introductions in last weeks episode I don't even really know who is who. I can tell you from screen shots the names of the characters from the movie musical, but in this series none of the boys seem to have a defined personality. I mean why is Enjolras so dull? I thought he was supposed to be the enigmatic leader of the revolution who would inspire his friends to fight to the death, in this series he's just plain boring, and barely recognisable as Enjolras. He's supposed to get people stirred up, he's supposed to love only France and yet this Enjolras has the personality of a gnat. I dont think anyone would really follow him to their deaths.
If you want an audience to care about the characters then you have to give the audience a chance to get to know them, and give them a reason to love them, I think this mini series has missed the mark with the Les Amis boys in a big way.
Maybe I've just gotten more cynical in my advancing years but honestly I don't really care their little revolution. It's not like it even changed anything in the long run. Not in France or the rest of the world. All governments are corrupt and will continue to be corrupt and those boys in Paris died for nothing and the only reason anyone know about that student revolution is because of Victor Hugo.
We're all just screwed in the end anyway, we're all probably gonna be killed due to some racist with a nuke soon. It really doesn't matter what you believe in, someone else always has your life in thier hands and they will end it for no reason at any time.
...I got a bit too real then didn't I? Well a lot of shit has happened in the world since I started this blog!
I just don't think this series is doing those boys and their cause justice, I don't want to compare it too much to the musical or the novel, but it is supposed to be an adaptation of the book so I thought this part of the story would leave a bigger impact. It really hasn't for me, I feel way too jaded from this series to care about it anymore. It looked good on screen....I'll give it that much, I mean the sets look good and the barricades look impressive, that's all the good I can say though.
Wow.....this series has really fucked me up, I'm really struggling to write anything this week. I just feel nothing. At least the novel got me stirred up, and the musical is entertaining in it's own way, but this whole series so far is just leaving me flat.
Javert still has a hard-on for justice in this episode, in fact I think it's getting ridiculous now. He seriously needs to chill. I mean he was never the most charismatic character of the whole saga but they've barely given David Oyelowo any lines in this series that don't involve him having a boner for catching Valjean again. It's becoming almost comical in that sense and I really don't think that was ever the intention for Javerts character. I think this series has really failed that character. Again the musical has way better motivations and character development for Javert, in this series I think Javert just looks kinda stupid. I mean he's convinced that Jean Valjean is part of the student revolution, he thinks he's the leader of it in fact. What would make him think that? That wasn't part of his plan in the novel or the musical, he went undercover in the barricades to take down the revolution, it wasn't about Valjean. There is so much more to Javert than what they're making him out to be in this series, he's a police officer remember! He has other things to think about other than one man! Like I said it just makes the character seem stupid and kinda comical and I don't like it. The same could be said for the rest of the Paris police actually. Why are they so inept and incompetent? At one point they looked liked the Keystone Kops when they were running after Thenardier after he escaped from prison, they just look ridiculous to me, like they are part of a comedy and not a genuine drama.
Uggghhhh...I should probably talk about the other big thing from this episode, you know what it is, the "relationship" between Marius and Cosette. Yes it is progressing at a very fast pace now, way too fast in fact, but hey, I'm not judging. No wait...I am judging. I'm judging way hard! Let me remind you all that at this point before Marius gets all creepy and starts sneaking into Cosettes garden at night, that the two of them have only exchanged about 10 words to each other, yet by the end of this episode they're ready to get married. Fucking slow down! In fact come to a complete stop!
I've made myself very clear on this blog how much I hate Marius and now in this episode we have to put up with him being even more of a creepy stalker and we have to hear his awful poems he leaves for Cosette. Please spare me the fucking teen love story! There's really nothing worse than teenagers in love. It is the worst part of this whole thing! It's not even charming when you think about it, all Marius is doing is putting Cosette in more danger by leading Thenardier and his gang to where she lives. That's not what you're supposed to do to someone you claim to love.
By the way how old is Marius supposed to be? In this episode he needs permission from his grandfather to get married. If he's a student surely he's old enough to get married without permission? Although I actually have no idea how old he is or how old Cosette is because this series hasn't given us a proper timeline! He must be over 18 though surely....what even was the legal marrying age in France back then? I have so many questions! Besides if you need anyones permission surely it would be Valjean, he's Cosettes father after all, also he could try actually asking Cosette if she wants to get married too, that would be a good start. The fucking idiot.
I truly hate Marius...I really do. He's stupid prick! He was born a stupid prick and he'll die a stupid prick and in between he will continue to be a stupid prick!
There's only so many words in the English language I can use to describe how much I hate him, I really wish I'd stuck with French then I could insult him in another language. I'll use my Spanish instead and just call him a Bobo Cabrón!
If he could just act rational for one second I might have more sympathy for him, but no, he's a little rich boy pretending to be poor, he's pretending to be involved in the revolution but he doest really care about the cause, he's oblivious to Eponine, he's sneaking around a young girls garden at night, and then when he thinks Cosette has left him forever he's ready to kill himself. Yeah that sounds like a stable man! Cosette should totally marry him.
You know I think Marius and Cosettes relationship is kinda dull. I always preferred the relationship between Valjean and Cosette more than I liked Marius and Cosette. But that's because I have daddy issues not boyfriend issues. I just think the relationship between two tortured souls like Valjean and Cosettes are way more interesting than a soppy love story.
Well...I did like the relationship between them until last weeks episode which tried to pervert it! It was less creepy in todays episode at least, although Valjean is being way too intense with Cosette for my liking. I know that he wants to protect her, but there's a different between being protective and being possessive, and Valjean is coming off way to possessive and it makes him seem creepy. And I swear to Christ if I see Valjean manhandling Cosette on-screen one more time I'm gonna put my fist through my fucking TV. That's not the Valjean I know, this whole series has turned Valjean into someone I don't know anymore. He's way too angry! Valjean was supposed to be a gentle soul! That's why him and Cosette together are so pure and good, but this series has just twisted him and his relationship with his daughter into something degrading.
This series is becoming a huge failure...it's a shame really because it had so much potential to be good.
Oh by the way, Eponine died in tonights episode....I don't really care about that. I've never really been on team Eponine and this episode didn't make me like her any more. She gets way too much sympathy from people who like the musical, but in the musical she's given a different personality. I do feel sorry for her unrequited feelings for Marius, but I might like her more if she didn't try so hard to keep Marius and Cosette apart.
Sorry Eponine fans, but Cosette is my girl.
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OK, those were my thoughts on episode 5. Just one more to go and then I can put this whole lousy series behind me! Don't forget though if you're in the UK you can catch up with it on the BBC iPlayer at the link below.
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