Fort Salem
Nov. 23rd, 2020 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI watched all ten episodes of Fort Salem on the iplayer in the last two days.
I wrote a longer thing but then concluded I'd have to go full in depth meta or just not start because it gets complicated.
So.
It's an Alternate Universe that posits witches are real, witches are powerful, and witches have been the drafted army of the USA since the beginning.
It also has the most women I've seen on screen at once in a really long time, if ever.
I like that it exists. But ten episodes in I can't figure out if I like it.
There's a warning for graphic violence on it, and it's very well earned. A massacre a week, very messy, and quite often seeing bodies' insides.
They really put work into the Alternate part, there's history and culture and you can see where they get it from and how they figure it ended up this way.
The people are mostly mean, and the system they're entangled in is cruel. So far we haven't seen a side that seems like the good guys, except maybe a handful of refugees. It is messy and unkind.
I dont know. It seems like the kind of thing where you need to know how it ends to know what story it was telling.
So there's a lot to think about, but... I dont know what to think of it.
I'd watch more of it if there was more on there.
Which I guess from their point of view is a good thing.
The bbc's subtitles for english got in the way of the show's subtitles for foreign languages kind of often. Like it pasted the name of the language over the top of the translation sometimes.
And I hate the lighting, which seems petty, but they keep having bright lights directly behind the main characters so it's all drama shadows and I felt like I could hardly ever see anything properly.
But mostly it told the story it set out to tell, and I just dont know what I think of it.
I wrote a longer thing but then concluded I'd have to go full in depth meta or just not start because it gets complicated.
So.
It's an Alternate Universe that posits witches are real, witches are powerful, and witches have been the drafted army of the USA since the beginning.
It also has the most women I've seen on screen at once in a really long time, if ever.
I like that it exists. But ten episodes in I can't figure out if I like it.
There's a warning for graphic violence on it, and it's very well earned. A massacre a week, very messy, and quite often seeing bodies' insides.
They really put work into the Alternate part, there's history and culture and you can see where they get it from and how they figure it ended up this way.
The people are mostly mean, and the system they're entangled in is cruel. So far we haven't seen a side that seems like the good guys, except maybe a handful of refugees. It is messy and unkind.
I dont know. It seems like the kind of thing where you need to know how it ends to know what story it was telling.
So there's a lot to think about, but... I dont know what to think of it.
I'd watch more of it if there was more on there.
Which I guess from their point of view is a good thing.
The bbc's subtitles for english got in the way of the show's subtitles for foreign languages kind of often. Like it pasted the name of the language over the top of the translation sometimes.
And I hate the lighting, which seems petty, but they keep having bright lights directly behind the main characters so it's all drama shadows and I felt like I could hardly ever see anything properly.
But mostly it told the story it set out to tell, and I just dont know what I think of it.
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Date: 2020-11-23 05:02 pm (UTC)