Episode One: Just like Shaibana, I wrote on my facebook that in the first fifteen minutes I was hooked. My god, I had no idea just how smurfing much I would grow to love this series in the less-than-an-hour timeframe of the first episode. Seriously. This show appeals to every single one of my darker interests - dark, dirty, filthy 1800's London, bats and bugs in the opening, spooky monsters, vampires that aren't totally and completely abhorrent, bones, bone-cleaning and flesh-eating beetles, crime scenes, and smurfing Egyptian hieroglyphics and mythology, insinuated Dracula and smurfing Frankenstein.

One of the things I love and I consider to be good storytelling is when a character is just thrown into a matter of circumstances by chance, and then the story opens up from there. Josh Harnett is not my favorite actor, but he's certainly not the worst. He works as a stranger in a strange land experiencing even stranger things, and we get to learn through his encounters with the peculiar situations, namely aiding an unusual gentleman and his partner in getting back his daughter. I just love circumstancial situations like the opening for this story and again, I think it makes for great storytelling.

I really, very much like Vanessa Ives. She strikes me as a female Sherlock, which is most likely what they were going for. She is Sherlock + Miss Adler without the dripping sexiness; she has an air of refinement about herself as if she is above such things. Ah, but! Ethan pulled The Lovers card, which is, I think in itself, telling. They are obviously attempting at making her seem very uninterested in attraction, and I really hope the usual crap in tv shows will not happen with them. Just once I would like to have a show where the guy and girl do not get together.

I also very much like Sir Malcolm! He is very curious and very mysterious indeed. During the entire episode I'd been trying to place his face. It's driving me crazy!

And that speech from cadaver boy about life and death! hoo boy, that was an awesome speech.
"Plant your flag on the truth? There is only one worthy goal for scientific exploration. Piercing the tissue that separates life from death. Everything else from the deep bottom of the sea to the top of the highest mountain on the farthest planet is insignificant. Life and death. The flicker that separates one from the other, fast as a bat's wing, more beautiful than any sonnet. That is my river. There I will plant my flag."
MALCOLM'S DAUGHTER'S NAME IS MINA OH MY GOD that is so smurfing genius aaaah I love how this is unfolding.

That smurfing doctor, HOLY trout, HE'S JUST CREATED FRANKENSTEIN aaaaaaaaah oh my god in heaven, how smurfing creepy was that. This show is amazing. Simply amazing. Now his speech makes so much more sense.

And male nudity! I swear to god I thought this show was on FX or something like that! Goodness I was wrong.

I can't watch the second episode tonight but I am aching to ;_____________; This has a very League of Extraordinary Gentlemen feel to it to me. I am loving it.