shipwreckedcomedy: I just don’t like poetry at all. A Tell Tale…
I just don’t like poetry at all.
A Tell Tale Vlog – Ep. 7: Madness – http://bit.ly/ATTVep7
Loosely adapted from “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. New episodes every Monday and Thursday of October, from the kitchens of shipwreckedcomedy.
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It was a little sad, but poignant, to have become so enamored of this series only near the end, such that my first day of anticipating a new episode and then excitedly watching it only resulted in… bittersweet goodbyes from Edgar and Lenore. There was less comedy than I’d hoped for. But then, it’s hardly the show’s fault that I was tuning in so near the end. It was a fitting conclusion.
It had such a gentle spirit. It was minimal, understated, the episodes brief and the comedy subtle, but it all worked. It wove a spell, created its own world, a world whose appeal I can’t really explain. But it grew stronger the more I watched. I guess it _was_ a kind of madness, the sort that grows on you without your being aware of its progression.
I love the way Edgar and Lenore appeared separately at first, and drew apart by the end, frustrating my little shipper heart, only appearing on-camera together those few times, building up to that one moment of actual contact, but then immediately and dismissively breaking it off. I think I need to watch the whole thing again, start to finish, to track the structure of that approach and separation. It’s a metaphor for all relationships, right? A microcosm of their beginning, middle, and end.
And God is it funny. Not at first, maybe, and not for everyone. I showed the first episode to someone, and she watched it all without expression. “Not my thing,” she said. I nodded, and didn’t push it.
That’s okay. It doesn’t have to be her thing. It’s mine.
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/65413071227.
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