Snowflake Challenge #2: Pimp Your Fandom

[rodo]

snowflake_challenge: Challenge #2
In your own space, write a promo, manifesto or primer for your fave character, ship or fandom.

Okay, it was really hard to choose which of my fandoms to advertise, since almost all of them are tiny, but for this post, I’m going with Carnival Row, since the next season is finally going to come out next month.

What is Carnival Row: It’s an eight-episode (so far) TV series by Amazon which focusses on Inspector Rycroft Philostrate, a policeman in The Burgue, a city that finds itself an unwilling refuge for fantasy creatures of many different kinds, leading to all the usual tensions between the newcomers and the humans. The plot kicks off when Philo’s old flame arrives in the city as a refugee and Philo gets drawn into the investigation of a series of murders that is far more dangerous than it seems at first.

Why you should watch Carnival Row:

• Philo (as played by a scruffy Orlando Bloom) is an A+ stoic woobie.
• The world building is really interesting, even if a lot of it is only touched on in passing. It’s a fantasy series, but it focusses on a London-inspired city circa 1900.
• some wonderful minor storylines that get some screen time, such as the cross-species romance between an upper-class lady and a faun, an actor and his troupe of kobold actors, and the Chancellor’s disappointment of a son getting some development.
• Not (just) your usual fantasy creatures: it’s fairies, fauns, centaurs and giant trolls, and unlike with other storylines about oppression and fantasy races, the other races’ differences don’t pose an inherent threat to the humans at all (which can sometimes make it seem as if the oppression is justified).
• A solid mystery that I, at least, found rather satisfying.

Comments

[dancing_serpent]

since the next season is finally going to come out next month

Really? Oh, nice! I might take a break from watching c-dramas for that one.

[rodo]

Yes, really! It only took three years and change, and it's going to be the last season, but I'm still excited!

[dancing_serpent]

Awesome! Let's hope they tie up everything neatly, then. Having two short seasons with a satisfying ending would be perfectly fine with me.

[sparrow2000]

You've made a great case for it. I remember reading articles about it before it first came out but it was never really on my radar to watch, but now I'm all sorts of intrigued. I'll definitely keep an eye out for it the next time I'm looking for something new to watch. :)

[rodo]

Thank you! Whenever I talk about it, people inevitably go "oh yeah, I heard about it, whatever happened to it?" - it's just one of those series that flew under the radar, for whatever reason.

[brightly_lit]

Neat! I will check this out!

[rodo]

Have fun when you do!

[corvidology]

I really enjoyed watching it! Having given up on the promised season 2 completely, I'm really happy to hear we're going to get it!

[rodo]

Well, it was a simultaneously long and short three years, wasn't it? I'm glad Amazon didn't call it quits despite all the production troubles.

[colls]

*waves hello*
I'm here via snowflake.
This has been on my to-watch list for a while now. Thank you for inspiring me to bump it up the list. :D

[rodo]

Hi! I hope you'll like it when you get around to it!

[tsuki_no_bara]

i honestly had mixed feelings about it but the worldbuilding was a++ and it just looked amazing. and i liked orlando bloom. :D and jared harris, who's always worth watching. i didn't know there was going to be a second season but i'm going to have to watch it because i want to know what happens. also, you know, worldbuilding.

[rodo]

I really enjoyed Jared Harris hamming it up too!

[impala_chick]

Oo you're making it much more enticing now that I know there's a potentially satisfying mystery.

[rodo]

Well, it was satisfying for me. I've heard ranges from "boring, I figured everything out by episode two" and "but it doesn't make sense" (because not everything was explained in excruciating detail. For me, at least, it was the type of mystery/case where I was ahead of the characters, but not to the point where I had everything figured out.

[anehan]

This sounds really interesting! I might actually watch this. At some point. *g*

[rodo]

Ah, the dreaded "at some point" *g*

[shipperslist]

Thanks for the reminder; this has been on my queue for YEARS.

[rodo]

Well, it IS years old at this point - but with the second season coming up, it's probably a good time to watch it.

[rekishi]

Amazon tells me I watched this. I have no memory of it. I shall watch it again, maybe!

[rodo]

That happens to me too, sometimes! On the plus side, it means getting to rewatch something as if it's the first time.

[svgurl]

I have heard about the show but I didn't actually know anything about it. It sounds very interesting and I do love mysteries. :D

[rodo]

Yeah, the marketing could be a bit vague if you didn't dig for some info, from what I remember.

[badfalcon]

Oooh I didn't know there was a second season coming. I LOVED the first one, it was so beautiful. I'm going to have to re-watch it!

[rodo]

Yeah. Starting next month! With a weekly release, not the entire season at once, iirc.