Re:Carnivale
[quote=”hishadow”]
Well, I would say this show has alot more in common with Twin Peaks. Carnivale has a much more “adult” theme, if there’s such a thing. Anyway, this show does not resemble Buffy and Angel.
I’d really enjoy if David Lynch was asked to do an episode though :)[/quote]
I can’t say I agree hisshadow, although I can certainly see why you would think that. In my view, Carnivale is a curious hybrd and superficially resembles Twin Peaks and Buffy/Angel. I wouldn’t want to insist on the parallels with Whedon’s universe, but Carnivale also has a ‘chosen’ one engaged in a cross generational conflict with a Big Bad intent on bringing about Armagedden. Unlike Buffy and Angel, though, Carnivale has a much more interesting conception of good and evil (its difficult to know what is what here, and part of the intrigue is that neither our ‘hero’ or ‘villian’ really recogise themselves as such, and answer their respective callings reluctantly). The Twin Peaks/David Lynch element, of course, comes by way of the stlyised and obtuse treatment – not to mention the little dwarf addressing ‘management’ pulling all the strings from behind a red curtain. Despite Lynch’s reputation, though, I find his moebious strip teases intellectually bankrupt – he generally works with a straightforward dualism between ‘appearance’ and ‘reality’, and his obtuseness tends to work its way to the revealtion that ‘all is lllusion’! 🙄
Carnivale, on the other hard, appears to have an elaborate mythology and questionable salvation narrative. It seems to draw on sources as disparate as Hinduism and Gnostism, and (if I understand correctly) wants to question the ‘illusion of the world’ that Lynch’s carnival of freaks takes as a given. Unlike Lynch, Carnivale’s creator’s seem genuinely interested in the question of the ‘disenchantment’ of the world – where Reason has been on the ascendent and the mystery or ‘magic’ of life in decline. And by setting the show in the past (just prior to the development of the Atomic Bomb) I suspect that Carnivale is spriritually close to Battlestar Gallactica – it seems to view the future (our present) as a post apocalyptic age in spiritual decline.
then again – I could be talking out of my backside. 😛
I’m still waiting for Lynch to direct that promised episode of X Files, although it would be great to see him come on board for Carnivale.
Ultraviolet, btw, is certainly good and worth seeing wherever possible. Iits main claim to fame now, though, is that it provided an American launching pad for British actor Idris Elba – Idris is simply amazing in what many critics regard as the best show on TV (HBO’s The Wire) – coincidentally The Wire is the show Carnivale replaced when it finished its amazing run on HBO recently.
yes, I watch too much tv. 😀