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Before I give back 24, I decided to rip the parts RB appears in. Whew. Took AGES and it comes to 425 MB and just over an hour.
It's spoilery as hell and contains some violence. I may have missed the odd bit here and there, and equally, I may have included more than I needed, but as I've done it, I thought I'd share.
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=5GD4IA8D
RB has this real gift for infusing the most dastardly of characters with enough vulnerability that you can't help feeling a fleeting twinge of sympathy for them. The preacher for instance in 'In God's Country' and look what he did with Karl from DH, transforming him from a heartless, shallow adulterer to a far more layered, sympathetic character.
Alan York/Kevin Carroll, isn't quite as easy to like; he's a stone-cold killer who murders a teenager (after a gentle stroke to her hair) and is prepared to take out Jack's wife and daughter, but even so, even so... and the cocky little jerk who executes him -- well, by then you wanted Kevin to live. Or maybe that was just me.
And the chemistry between him and Jack was great. That brief fight in the car, all silent and violent, was hot as hell, and then we come to the spitting scene which just killed me.
Jack has to get the blood off Kevin's face so he spits on him and until he starts to scrub at the blood, when Kevin just thought Jack was being contemptuous and vindictive, there's this split second of hurt there that's very telling. It's not slashy, well, maybe, more just a 'hey; hate me all you want, but I thought we had more respect for each other than that.'
And I came away with the idea that Kevin respected Jack for being good at what he does and the whole family loyalty deal, and wouldn't have killed his family unless he really had to and I want his backstory because he's too good at being nice for it to be something he's never done for real.
Watch him after he kills the girl; total change; he looks the same, no outward sign, but he's scary when he was nothing but a sweet, worried dad before. Love how RB gets that across.
It's spoilery as hell and contains some violence. I may have missed the odd bit here and there, and equally, I may have included more than I needed, but as I've done it, I thought I'd share.
hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=5GD4IA8D
RB has this real gift for infusing the most dastardly of characters with enough vulnerability that you can't help feeling a fleeting twinge of sympathy for them. The preacher for instance in 'In God's Country' and look what he did with Karl from DH, transforming him from a heartless, shallow adulterer to a far more layered, sympathetic character.
Alan York/Kevin Carroll, isn't quite as easy to like; he's a stone-cold killer who murders a teenager (after a gentle stroke to her hair) and is prepared to take out Jack's wife and daughter, but even so, even so... and the cocky little jerk who executes him -- well, by then you wanted Kevin to live. Or maybe that was just me.
And the chemistry between him and Jack was great. That brief fight in the car, all silent and violent, was hot as hell, and then we come to the spitting scene which just killed me.
Jack has to get the blood off Kevin's face so he spits on him and until he starts to scrub at the blood, when Kevin just thought Jack was being contemptuous and vindictive, there's this split second of hurt there that's very telling. It's not slashy, well, maybe, more just a 'hey; hate me all you want, but I thought we had more respect for each other than that.'
And I came away with the idea that Kevin respected Jack for being good at what he does and the whole family loyalty deal, and wouldn't have killed his family unless he really had to and I want his backstory because he's too good at being nice for it to be something he's never done for real.
Watch him after he kills the girl; total change; he looks the same, no outward sign, but he's scary when he was nothing but a sweet, worried dad before. Love how RB gets that across.
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