tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7971684444777589316.post4732932909053013963..comments2023-05-30T14:35:42.488+01:00Comments on Twisted Tales: Carnivàle reviewed by Lorna JowettUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7971684444777589316.post-880406096837247392011-06-05T18:43:27.542+01:002011-06-05T18:43:27.542+01:00Great article, Lorna. I do wonder what they would ...Great article, Lorna. I do wonder what they would have done for the third series, if it had one, particularly in relation to Sophie. Whilst she wasn't my favourite character, watching her struggle between sides would have been an interesting development, I think. I found it interesting that you only mentioned the episode Babylon. For me that was perhaps one of their best episodes and a microcosm example of the show as a whole. I think you're correct when you say you watch the whole episode and then realise nothing has happened, but I feel that was an intentional flavour of the show - the idea that you can go anywhere, New Mexico, Colorado, California - and wherever you are, you're in the same place you just left. You didn't escape, you didn't even really leave. You're still there. That cyclical sort of claustrophobia in the open spaces was of particular interest to me, especially in a Gothic sense. Several of the characters (Jonesy, Libby, etc) often talk about trying to escape, and a need to leave - and yet none of them really escape. Sophie manages to leave and then the Carnivale shows up in her backyard. She's never free. They're all just as trapped as Stangler (John Hannah) in the episode Babylon. It often reminded me of the old Avengers episode House that Jack Built when every room Emma runs into is the same room, a prison within space. So I certainly agree when you say "Time itself becomes strange and uncanny" but I would also add that space becomes Gothicised as well, that idea of a haunting or being haunted - and time certainly comes into play with that as well, as so many are being hunted/haunted by their own pasts. I certainly wish the show had had an opportunity to flourish - I agree it was truly an ambitious undertaking, perhaps one of the most ambitious in television. Aesthetically, it was a masterpiece - and the likes, as you say, we'll probably not see again. Thanks for the great article!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com