What we’re going to get: a ham-handed Victorian dystopia where the Bad Guys were hit with the Idiot Stick five billion times in order to keep them from doing a few simple things that would have been obvious, but also would have keep them from creating the precise dystopia that could later be used to create dull, slanted, yet hyper-topical social commentary about our times. (Sprinkle ‘presumably’ and ‘probably’ in the previous sentence, where needed.)
What we could have gotten: Fantasy steampunk Cthulhu.
![](https://moelane.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cthulhu.png)
Now I’m pissed. I was assuming that whoever’s doing CARNIVAL ROW just didn’t have a clue, OK? It wasn’t entirely their fault, really: they had an idea, didn’t know what to do with it, so they messed it all up. But a clip like this shows me that the creative team could conceive of the concept of Gaslight Cthulhu; and then they decided that running with that would be less interesting than Oh, noes, they won’t let any of the faerie fly.
…Jackwagons.
Moe Lane
PS: At this point, I’m waiting for somebody I trust to come in and confirm for me that this show WASN’T crap before I’ll watch it. And I’m the damned target demographic!
Saw a long preview at the movies last night, and ummmm … the makeup effects look pretty good.
BTW, Hobbs and Shaw was a blast. Dumb, physically impossible, rollicking entertainment.
And there’s no need to watch any of the F&F movies to prep for it.
The online trailers lead with the conflict tagline: “Different is Dangerous.”
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I fully expect this to go full SJW ret*rd.
The lead tagline in the Twitch/YT trailers is “Different is Dangerous.”
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I fully expect this to [completely violate this blogs posting guidelines.]
Well…bugger.
I’ve been waiting at least since the publication of Chaosium’s Cthulhu by Gaslight for something like this and…dang but that’s disappointing.
Hobbs & Shaw sounds promising though.