Episode Three List: Siege. Script. Shadows.
One year has passed since the last episode, and Troy is running out of eats, so a plan is hatched. The Greeks find ways to keep busy.
My List of Six:
1. I've order a pair of night-vision goggles to wear while watching this show. SO much of it takes place in the dark, or in shadowy caves and tents. I wonder why they cast such beautiful actors then filmed them mostly at night?
2. Leg warmers, bare feet, sexy thighs and grunts ... the Greeks kept busy play-fighting in the sand. They're an active bunch of restless warriors, waiting for the opportunity to go to war. Siege-ing is a long, slow process, yo. Watching the brothers, (King Menelaus and King Agamemnon) have a go, it was apparent they'd had a lifetime of wresting matches/slapping contests in their past.
3. Menelaus has a broken heart, a short fuse and a knife in his
4. The Trojans, on the other hand, talked and talked and talked. (Helen chatted with her mother-in-law about Andromache. Andromache talked to her mother-in-law about Helen. Helen and Andromache talked about being mothers. Paris and Hector talked about love and marriage while on a midnight adventure. The dialogue seemed a lil clumpy. It didn't feel natural to me (me who loves to be a part of (or at least eavesdrop on) rich, fascinating, lengthy conversations.).Admittedly, I don't know what 'natural' would sound like amongst Trojan royals under siege in the 12th century. So there's that.
5. This whole scene reminded me of Menelaus in his past life, when in his mid-20's he did three years of overseas humanitarian service, feeding the poor and marginalized in England. He too gave out scoops of food and bags of coin to starving villagers.
6. Ahhhh. And then? Achilles and Helen. What a delicious, interesting scene. More like this please.
It may not be perfect but IT IS entertaining.
Also entertaining, is watching the twitter feed while the show is airing. OH. MY. GOODNESS. The hard-core, small-minded classicists can barely stand any deviation from "the source material, the eye-witness account" aka The Illiad and the racists post indignant tweets about the colours of the actors, and the GOT fans can't deal with anything that's not GOT and the action-adventure junkies are bored with the slow intentional story build. BUT THEY'RE ALL WATCHING, regardless. Haha.
I should mention that it's also great fun to follow the tweets during the week when real Troy: Fall of a City enthusiasts watch the latest episode on iPlayer and tweet their every thought.
It's my favorite hour of TV this winter. Incredibly detailed costumes on stunningly beautiful actors with breath-taking scenery. I am learning new things about a volume of literature/Ancient Greek myths - which was unexpected, but not the reason I'm watching. I'm watching because I enjoy a great story.
Totally hooked.
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