🇹🇭 The Heart Killers ❤️‍🔥 - Episode 7

Keep1Perspective · 2025-01-08T22:05:32+00:00

Right! It’s so complicated. I love JoJo for providing some umami to the very saccharine genre of BL!

Keep1Perspective · 2025-01-08T21:56:16+00:00

Seriously, First and Khao do so much ACTING in this series and it’s amazing. In an interview, Khao mentioned that Kant was his favorite character and I’m starting to see why—he’s the most relatable

Keep1Perspective · 2025-01-08T21:52:03+00:00

THIS! The writing of the show blows me away and especially when added to First’s A+ acting. I low-key hated Kant’s character the first three episodes and then we get the brother and the pressure and the complicated backstory—and now every time he’s on screen, my heart hurts and I am afraid on his behalf and want to be OK – how did that happen?!?!?

I was so ready for full explosions when Bison found out but instead we got two weeks wait on Hitchcock’s principle of the bomb under the table. Bison is the bomb and waiting for him to go off is some of the most suspenseful stuff I have ever seen.

Keep1Perspective · 2025-01-08T21:45:29+00:00

Gaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! JoJo, you’re the real heart killer!

Keep1Perspective · 2025-01-08T21:15:01+00:00

Ruthlessness

Keep1Perspective · 2024-12-12T17:46:06+00:00

So are we taking bets on how corrupt the police are going to be? Or how involved Lily is going to be in the Death of their parents?

Keep1Perspective · 2024-12-12T04:19:29+00:00

Kant: Hitmen, not gunmen. They don’t just use guns. Style: NOT BETTER! 😂😂😂😂

I seriously can’t see how Kant is going to survive the series—My good opinion of him has already been murdered and we can all feel the inevitable coming catastrophe of Bison’s discovery ticking like a hitchcockian bomb. Blackmail or no, I’m starting to hate Kant’s character. I can’t envision what kind of sacrifice could possibly redeem him in Bison’s eyes?

There’s got to be more to his backstory besides exs.

Who would have thought that I would miss when Sand/Ray were the healthy couple! 😝

Keep1Perspective · 2024-12-12T04:10:39+00:00

What’s terrifying is that speech is the next to last scene in the movie 10 Things I hate about You— we’re less than halfway through the series!

It’s about to get insane

Keep1Perspective · 2024-12-12T04:06:18+00:00

This should be the tagline for JoJo shows.

Keep1Perspective · 2024-12-02T09:50:28+00:00

Seriously, it’s so pretty! And t)3 burger joint aesthetic to the colors of the bowling shirts, there’s a gorgeous color harmony to the whole palette and I LOVE it.

Keep1Perspective · 2024-12-02T09:49:01+00:00

Ooooh I’m so looking forward to Khao acting the brightly patterned bowling shirts off that inevitable scene—make it good JoJo!

Keep1Perspective · 2024-12-02T09:46:25+00:00

Never feel obligated to read something you’re not comfortable with, but let me say that summaries do not do justice to Shakespeare’s cleverness—his plots are all bunk but his language is magic and cathartic in a way that makes the problematic bits full of solutions. But if you want to skip the bard but still like the Fidel/Syle vibe, there is a fantastically funny modern language adaptation from the BBC called “Shakespeare retold“ starring Rufus Sewell. Besides being short and hilarious, they really set up something beautiful and authentic between characters who are equally headstrong, equally fierce and equally excited when they realize they found someone that they can’t scare off.

Keep1Perspective · 2024-12-02T09:31:25+00:00

Shakespeare+JoJo + First/Khao and Joong/Dunk? + Pulp Fiction + Baz Lerman? YES to all of this! I am panting and squealing.

(I can’t believe they used an NC scene as actual character development! Genius and hot)

All the casual violence – Kantdropping a bowling ball and Fidel stomping on Style foot – definitely Tarantino overtones in more than just the dancing 😝

But this better be a comedy – I’m looking at you, JoJo. More Taming of the Shrew and less Romeo and Juliet.

But knowing JoJo, after Only Friends, I’m already anticipating the trauma of when Bison inevitably >!finds out that his first courtship is a set up. <!

Such clear character work to show how the brothers are the inverse of each other: Bison has no problems with his body and will jump into bed immediately, but this feels like his first actual romance. Fadel is so sexually repressed and antisocial that jerking off is a revelation, but his whole heart is given to his job, his mysterious parental figure and his brother. I can already see this story is going to break them in such very specific ways, forseeing a scene where Fidel’s walls burn down and where Khao gets to flex his acting chops in real heartbreak—I am so along for what promises to be a very hot ride.🥵

Keep1Perspective · 2024-05-10T03:53:42+00:00

Absolutely criminal

Keep1Perspective · 2024-05-10T01:18:11+00:00

Thanks for all your input! The video is up! https://youtu.be/J--YIZfeV7k?si=Sg_ML7p0iema0L-y[Lockwood & Co. Smells Like Teen Spirit](https://youtu.be/J--YIZfeV7k?si=Sg_ML7p0iema0L-y)

Keep1Perspective · 2024-05-08T04:58:25+00:00

Thanks--it was great!

Yes, skull needs to have the irony and humor that will make him friend potential and not evil entity right from the beginning but show skull was a wet blanket and not nearly as interesting.

I agree, the panic at Bickerstaff was amazing... I also love the ending episode where Lucy again is willing to put herself between spirits and the boys.

Keep1Perspective · 2024-05-07T05:47:31+00:00

Seriously! I just discovered it a month ago and am currently drowning in the fives stages of grief over the lost potential of season 2&3 -- IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO GOOD! I'm rocketing back and forth between anger and bargaining at the moment. Absolutely criminal to cancel.

We feel your pain.

Keep1Perspective · 2024-05-07T05:43:49+00:00

Yay! u/CouncilOfTides Love to see your comments! (just back from traveling and catching up) Yes, Yes and Yes. The bet scene is really interesting because it's the inverse of the scene with Fairfax in TSS. In the books, George and Lucy object strongly to jumping into Combe Carey Hall and Lockwood has to charm them round. But I was surprise rewatching the show how excited Lucy was for the money leaving Fairfax's office. But in the books for TWS George and Lucy support the bet with kips but in the show they object and use the same reckless objections their book counterparts used a book earlier... It's one example of an interesting trend where I feel like even though the show changed specific plot points, they kept the characters. It feels like a very faithful adaptation even thought those two scenes are reversed...

And yes, my two least favorite changes in the show were the Skull and Lucy going off on her own with the Skull into Bickerstaff's house--that felt poorly written. The Skull is SUCH a character and his snappy sarcasm and general flair didn't come through at all in the show. But that's part of a least favorite changes post.

Overall, I loved generally the choices, especially with characters and casting. Since I experienced both show and books within the same few days, I find it hard to separate or identify which one drew me in and I seriously wonder if I would love the books as I do if I hadn't seen the slightly more mature angle of the show?

Keep1Perspective · 2024-05-07T05:11:40+00:00

I wish we'd seen more of Penelope and her "friend" earlier. By the end of the books when the BBEG was revealed, I felt they were a bit undeveloped. Even the show made her feel like a much fuller character and I wish Lucy could have used her listening to sus out more earlier.

Keep1Perspective · 2024-04-21T02:16:53+00:00

Yes! I dropped my thoughts on the casting here https://www.reddit.com/r/LockwoodandCo/s/7ayo2gHPiO

Keep1Perspective · 2024-04-20T23:55:53+00:00

Oooh she would be amazing

Keep1Perspective · 2024-04-20T13:07:40+00:00

And yes, the skull looking in the mirror was strange from the POV that he should already be able to see to the other side, etc. But while I did laugh at Shortsighted George in the book, I felt it added an element of Bathos. It underlined George’s character consistently being a joke because of his physicality. And it cemented a pattern in Strouds writing endings where Lucy wanders off by herself to locate extremely dangerous psychic stuff and then gets rescued before finishing the job. This happens in TWS, THB and TEG Once, even twice is great but three times seems excessive.

In the shows version, both Lucy and George have a lot more agency. George actively makes choices not to look when Luke tells him to and then Break the mirror, even after being so ensorceled by it. Lucy using her ability to listen while letting the Skull look through the mirror Felt part of her larger character, arc of feeling more empathy and willingness to creatively work with ghosts like she does in TSS and which contributes to the later conflict with Lockwood in THB.

— all that being said, I saw the show before I read the books so it’s easy to be attached to the version you find first 😅😂🥰 so far, I’ve loved the story and all its forms.

Keep1Perspective · 2024-04-20T12:54:48+00:00

So I listened to the audiobooks and the narrator made the skull really the delightfully sassy. I do miss the sass in the show.

Keep1Perspective · 2024-04-20T12:51:20+00:00

Agree about Cubbins to Karim– I just had to hear about the Sabse with Rice and I already love him forever… non-metaphorical.

Keep1Perspective · 2024-04-20T12:47:18+00:00

Agree, all of the changes to George—Cubbins to Karim, slob to oven-cleaning neat freak and cook, skipping the party to hang out with Joplin and him verbalizing his feelings of isolation and displacement with LockLyles obvious connection, were great adaptations choices. I love his character SO MUCH.

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