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current mood: enthralled
Carnivale is love. Finished season two and decided if I was a TV, I could die happy after that season finale. I was plodding along thinking with this great climax, I probably won't mind that the show didn't continue because all the themes seemed to come to a head and we did receive several great answers. It was a better place to end it then the end of season one, because at least our protagonist had actually met his arch nemesis at the end. I was screaming with joy throughout the whole marathon, refused to go to sleep even though I had to work the next day and I'm still a bit sick, I just HAD to finish it.
I got more than I bargained for in the last ten minutes and wanted to CRY. Sigh. I wish more people liked the shows I do then Carnivale would have had more success than True Blood. Cest la vie, TV world.
I'm so, so, so glad I waited for years after the show was over to try it. I would have been so upset when this was cancelled if I'd followed it every week and speculated in a community environment about it. I also would have probably been one of those scary people fighting hard for a show to come back, in whatever form, just so that I know what happens. lol At least four years on, it's pretty safe to say, the cast, crew and creative teams have moved on and this gem ain't coming back. Sigh. I would be so excited if I heard there was a Carnivale movie; I don't think it would work as well in a book series, since information is so often conveyed visually in the show, but I would still buy it. I doubt it will happen though which sucks.
The bad thing is that now all the boards are gone (Basically) and I have no one to talk to about it except my roomie. She watched it with me and agreed it was awesome but doesn't really go into deep discussions and finds me funny when I get that interested and start asking a bunch of philiosophical questions and wondering what happens. She just says it was canceled, nothing happened. Grr. lol How can she not care when great TV (great storytelling - period) is so rare these days.
If anyone did watch it and can recommend a good fanfic that continued on from the last episode, I'd be much obliged. I'm too nervous to put a toe in there and it seems like all the fanfic archives are dead and gone except for ff.net (and I don't understand how a story true to the show could be ON ff.net considering all the sex, swearing and other creepy things that happened on it).
I'll probably pop online in a couple of weeks with some Carnivale icons because they were really difficult to find too. Carnivale web community, where are you?? It must be true that the best shows, have the last need for 'fanfic' intervention, and thus the least dedication to the online space because I was so surprised that the community was so dead already. Four years isn't long, considering the Roswell boards.
Oh and briefly. I have new love for Nick Stahl who is not my type but is quite perfect for this character and magnetic in the role. Clea Duvall, who I've always loved...*squishes* Never become a Hollywood starlet, you are class and grace and I wish I could have seen what you did next with Sofie's character because...dang.
Oh, man, I lovedlovedloved the first season of Carnivale; me and a friend watched it religiously. I didn't watch the second season because I parted ways with that friend in a very traumatic way and the show reminded me too much of her. But it's been long enough that I think I can give it another go, esp as you're reccing it, and you have good taste.
Nick Stahl is one of my favorites. I heart him majorly. I have watched many of his movies, and respect him for taking difficult, gritty, edgy roles almost ALWAYS. He starred in one particular movie I recommend called Twist, which is a modern, thoroughly fucked-up retelling of Oliver Twist, and is a harrowing, hollowing, but unbelievably good film. And Stahl was amazing as Dodger, a heroin-addicted male prostitute who takes Oliver under his wing. If you watch this movie, be aware that it has VERY graphic depictions of intravenous drug-use, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and violence. It is, nonetheless, a beautiful tale.
I also like Clea Duvall quite a lot. But I'm A Cheerleader remains one of my very favorite movies, after all of these years, and Clea is certainly one of the reasons for that.
And now I wish I still had my Carnivale icon of yore. Mayhap it is still on my hard drive somewhere.