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Carnival Row 2x02 “New Dawn”
#Carnival Row#carnivalrowedit#Imogen Spurnrose#Tamzin Merchant#Tourmaline Larou#Karla Crome#Vignette Stonemoss#Cara Delevingne#Rycroft Philostrate#Orlando Bloom#Darius Prowell#Ariyon Bakare#Sophie Longerbane#Caroline Ford#Jonah Breakspear#Arty Froushan#Joanne Whalley#Leonora#Agreus Astrayon#David Gyasi
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TAMZIN MERCHANT as IMOGEN SPURNROSE
Carnival Row (2019-)
#carnival row#carnival row edit#imogen spurnrose#tamzin merchant#agreus astrayon#david gyasi#rycroft philostrate#vignette stonemoss#orlando bloom#cara delevingne#fantasy#fantasy series#perioddramaedit#urban fantasy#neo noir#steampunk#amazon video
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So, I just finished Carnival Row season two. Here’s my thoughts (spoilers ahead).
I really liked it at first, but it just kept going downhill. Season one had a twisty storyline, but pretty much all the pieces fit together in the end. This season felt way more convoluted and much less character driven. They tried to do stuff with characters’ motivations, like exploring Philo’s guilt over suppressing his fae heritage and “siding” with humans. It’s just that none of it felt as authentic or compelling as it did in the first season. As a writer myself, there’s a difference between “the characters did this” and “the writers made the characters do this.” It’s a hard difference to explain, but this season felt like the latter. Stuff just happened because it could, with little attention paid to actually exploring character depth in meaningful ways. Overall it felt too rushed and convoluted.
Other points:
If you’ve followed this blog for a while, you’ll know I love Philo. This season, however, he felt far less humanized (which is ironic, because the writers were trying to do just that). His arc in season one was so focused on helping people — he was so defined by his compassion — and I really didn’t feel that was present in season two. He felt significantly less sympathetic.
I couldn’t bring myself to ship Vignette and Tourmaline. Their relationship was a major focus in season one, and it was established that Vignette chose Philo, and that she and Tourmaline were better as friends. I just really hate it when a show establishes two characters as a couple and then totally changes direction in the next season. Philo and Vignette were written as endgame in season one, including the finale, and this season totally erased that. It felt like narrative whiplash.
Why did they bother establishing a connection between Tourmaline and Darius and setting them up to be a cute couple to then do nothing with it? And then just kill him? Lazy writing. Make it flow.
I actually really liked Imogen this season. Her growth in season one was great, and it was cool to see her spunk and competence this season especially in the last few episodes. Also, having her kill Ezra felt narratively fulfilling. He had it coming based on how he’d treated her, and I didn’t feel sorry for him at all.
I will never forgive this show for killing Sophie Longerbane. She was 100% the most interesting character on the show, and just as she was getting even more interesting, they killed her. Let smart, fascinating, ambitious women live, thank you. Seriously. Her arc was so good, and I was so excited to see what she’d do next, and then she DIED. How dare you.
Honestly, the show was more interesting before Sophie and Jonah were killed.
What happened to Philo’s “I’m Breakspear’s son and I’ll be chancellor to help people” plot line? It disappeared after like episode two and only appeared again in the epilogue. For a show about fantasy politics, this season almost totally ignored the most interesting political stuff in its own plot.
Speaking of the epilogue. I like what it did, but holy crap that was too rushed. I need at least a few more episodes to explain how everyone got to that point. I love happy endings, especially to stressful stories, but this felt like a cop-out from actual storytelling. I want the story of Philo revealing his parentage and becoming chancellor. Do Imogen and Agreus get married? I need way more development for Vignette and Tourmaline’s relationship. I just need more. The middle of the season felt like a lot of filler; they could easily have cut that and done a couple more episodes to ACTUALLY wrap up the show.
As always, the costumes and sets were STUNNING. This season had better win awards for that.
#carnival row#carnival row season 2#spoilers#rycroft philostrate#vignette stonemoss#tourmaline larou#imogen spurnrose#agreus astrayon
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One Dress a Day Challenge
The Men of September
Carnival Row (episode 6, "Unaccompanied Fae") / David Gyasi as Agreus Astrayon
I featured Imogen's red dress from this scene as one of my first costumes for this project. Agreus is also beautifully dressed, but even more than his clothing, I want to call attention to the prosthetics that turn the actor into a faun: the horns, the hooves (love the fancy detailing!), and the padded legs. A couple of the pictures above are taken from a different episode, and I'm not sure whether he's wearing a different waistcoat or whether the color just looks different in different light. I also like how he's tilted his hat at a rakish angle over his horns (and how it matches the angle of Imogen's hat).
The cut of the suit itself seems modeled on clothing of the 1900s. See the picture below at left, which is dated 1906. I've included a picture of Agreus in a different costume because it was the only full-body view I could find.
#carnival row#the men of september#david gyasi#one dress a day challenge#one dress a week challenge#television costumes#tv costumes#fantasy costumes#mr agreus#agreus astrayon#Burguish fashion#joanna eatwell#s1e6 unaccompanied fae#unaccompanied fae
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Carnival Row 2.01 Fight or Flight
↳ 3,281 1080p logofree screencaps
Carnival Row 2.02 New Dawn
↳ 3,359 1080p logofree screencaps
#carnival row#carnivalrowedit#rycroft philostrate#vignette stonemoss#agreus astrayon#scnet: carnival row#carnival row season 2#tv shows#capped by cass
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Fantastical character posters for the second and final season of #CarnivalRow 🧚🏻✨ Series starts streaming Feb 17 on #PrimeVideo.
#carnival row#carnival row season 2#hell yesh#i can’t wait for season 2#cara delevingne#orlando bloom#tamzin merchant#david gyasi#vignette stonemoss#rycroft philostrate#imogen spurnrose#agreus astrayon#priceless
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tv review
Carnival Row Season 1 Season 2:
11/11
Best tv show I had watch in a while. and I binged watch it as well. The season final was wonderful and the sets are beautiful. Im so used to everything cgi that i was surprized some of the characters design is non-cgi which is refreshing.
#carnival row#runyan milworthy#imogen spurnrose#agreus astrayon#runyan millworthy#major vir#mikulas vir
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....ok yeah i’m not a fan of taking a break from the really intense fucked up serial killing monster political thriller in the Burge for...Imogen and Agreus have relationship troubles in fantasy communist land
it is completely destroying the pacing, and tbh their characters feel a bit like season 1 relics. they should have just escaped happy and have been done with it
#imogen spurnrose#Agreus Astrayon#carnival row#their inclusion and the whole 'oooh the evils of communism' in the Pact are really dragging down the pacing#it feels tacked on#they're trying to do to much by having this storyline as well#like if they weree getting another 3 seasons i could see this being a longer story#but with only a season left this whole holiday to the pact just feels a bit like its eating up valuable plot time
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Also I really love what they did with Agreus’ broken horn, it looks pretty rad
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Stanisław Wokulski i Izabela Łęcka
#carnival row#imogen spurnrose#agreus astrayon#lalka#polishcore#polishwave#a dziś matury przecież#ale podobno nie było lalki#random thoughts
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White Liberalism in Carnival Row
Season one starts off well enough.
Vignette's abuse at the hands of her "employers" is hauntingly realistic. Blending elements of classism into the fantasy racism that is the main conflict of the story. The scene where she finds the library she was caretaker of back in Tirnanoc is incredibly pointed criticism of how everything in western museums is stolen.
Philo being the only member of the Constabulary who actually cares about the Fae minority because he is half Fae. Trying, and failing, to change anything from within the system to the point he's arrested for hiding his mixed heritage. And eventually deciding to abandon the Constabulary altogether at the end of the first season.
Piety Breakspear's appropriation of Fae magic to attack innocent people in an attempt to protect her status and power.
Jonah Breakspear and Sophie Longerbane joining forces to turn the Row into a ghetto/concentration camp despite ostensibly being sympathetic and/or apathetic to Fae. Showing how the aristocratic ruling class will do anything to promote their own interests.
And yet the fall from biting social commentary into white Liberalism is present even here.
Agreus Astrayon is a rich faun. Who made his fortune by hunting down his own kind who "broke contract" and tried to escape from indentured servitude. In exchange for his own freedom. And in season two it's revealed that he also convinced others to sign exploitative contracts. Abusing the trust his own people had in him to build his wealth.
Which makes his speal promoting the virtues of assimilation and collaboration that much more grating. Agreus is played by a black actor.
Making the connection between the character talking about "working within the system" and real life black conservatives perhaps an inevitable comparison. Remember that at this time all Fae are forced to live in a ghetto they weren't allowed to leave. A ghetto with such filthy conditions that a plague is ravaging the fairy population.
A ghetto Agreus never had to live in because he had to leave the country after defending himself against a human man in his own home.
Sophie Longerbane is made "sympathetic" by showing her regret her part in making the Row a ghetto... Which comes across as quite shallow and meaningless as it changes nothing about her actions.
But worse, when she's arrested Sophie goes into a rant about how much she's been wronged by the men of the ruling class. And how men are the root of all problems... She says this to Vignette.
A fae who has directly suffered due to Sophie's actions against the Fae.
A fairie whose society is matriarchal.
And instead of dismissing the self pitying oppressor spouting white feminism Vignette is "moved" by her privileged viewpoint.
Philo has an epiphany in season two: all his work as a member of the Constabulary, as a soldier in the Burgue's army, hurt his people and contributed to the oppression they faced... And all that is swept away because his friend is killed.
The New Dawn is an unsubtle fantasy equivalent of Communism. The movement that achieved class solidarity between humans and Fae against the ruling class. Is just Communism.
That is why Agreus' naivety about the virtues of capitalist racism can be portrayed as "in the right". Because obviously rebellion is worse.
That is why protecting the most racist constable on the force is the "right thing to do". Because if you just coddle racists enough they'll realize they were wrong. And hey! At least they're not Communists!
Carnival Row started as a flawed show with potential. But it squandered that potential in favor of white Liberalism that is shown in the actual show to be nonesense.
Because at the end there was nothing stopping the Burgue from reconquering Tirnanoc like they wanted to. There was nothing stopping them from keeping the Fae in ghettos and only letting out "skilled workers" like Sophie planned.
There is no evidence that Philo was actually the illegitimate son of the previous chancellor but he was still given the option of becoming the next one.
The Burgue just suffered it's most devastating "terrorist attack", two chancellor's in a row were assassinated by Fae and we're expected to believe that the Burgue just magically decided to be less racist?
After allowing a race riot to sweep across Carnival Row and a foreign power to radicalize their second class citizens!?
The naivety is astounding.
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Carnival Row 2x01 “Fight or Flight”
#Carnival Row#carnivalrowedit#Rycroft Philostrate#Orlando Bloom#Vignette Stonemoss#Cara Delevingne#Agreus Astrayon#David Gyasi#Imogen Spurnrose#Tamzin Merchant#Simon McBurney#Karla Crome#Tourmaline Larou#Caroline Ford#Sophie Longerbane#Arty Froushan#Jonah Breakspear
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Tag game: Answer these questions, then tag 9 people you want to get to know better.
Thanks for the tag, @eolewyn1010 !
3 ships: Franz Leitmayr/Ivo Batic, Agreus Astrayon/Imogen Spurnrose, Simon Van Reyk/Daniel Harrow
First ship: no clue... probably a HP one though
Last movie: "Das bayrische Jahrtausend - 17. Jahrhundert - Ingolstadt" if documentaries count, "Tatort München - Der traurige König" if not
Last song: King Crimson's I Talk to The Wind
Currently reading: the last bit of Naomi Novik's Drachenprinz, and the first bit of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens
Currently watching: uhm. Coldmirror's latest episode of "Fünf Minuten Harry Podcast"
Currently consuming: nothing. air, i guess XD
Currently craving: lasagna. That'd be amazing right now.
okay, let's see. I'm tagging @lux42y @str4wanzerin @poodlewithaguitar @callingrockybeach @weidli @chrisoels @bieblomme @dysfunctional-deity and everyone else who wants to do this ^^'
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‘Carnival Row’ Season 2 Trailer
The Prime Video fantasy series, co-starring Cara Delevingne, is set to conclude after Season 2. Per the official synopsis, in a fantasy world where humans and creatures clash, Season 2 of “Carnival Row” picks up with former inspector Rycroft Philostrate aka Philo (Bloom) investigating a series of gruesome murders stoking social tension. Vignette Stonemoss (Delevingne) and the Black Raven plot payback for the unjust oppression inflicted by The Burgue’s human leaders, Jonah Breakspear (Arty Froushan) and Sophie Longerbane (Caroline Ford).
Tourmaline Larou (Karla Crome) inherits supernatural powers that threaten her fate and the future of The Row. And, after escaping The Burgue and her vengeful brother Ezra (Andrew Gower), Imogen Spurnrose (Tamzin Merchant) and her partner Agreus Astrayon (David Gyasi) encounter a radically new society which upends their plans. With humans and fae folk divided and freedom on the line, each hero will face impossible dilemmas and soul-defining tests in the epic conclusion of “Carnival Row.”
Prime Video premieres the final season of Carnival Row on February 17. The ten episodes are set to roll out weekly.
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Carnival Row (1x07) - The World to Come
#carnival row#carnvial row season 1#carnival row spoilers#imogen spurnrose#agreus astrayon#tamzin merchant#david gyasi#steampunk#fae#racism allegories#faun
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