I actually have to confess that, apart from the lovely "Give me that man/That is not passion's slave" speech that Hamlet gives Horatio, I ... didn't really follow? Which I see now is RIDICULOUS, because they all but cut that speech and I still ship them SO HARD. I think I ship it because Horatio is pretty much the only one who understands Hamlet, and meanwhile Hamlet is only even approaching functional around Horatio. I WANT TO DRAW TRAGIC HEARTS AROUND THEM.
This version is fucking stellar, or at least it was the sort of Hamlet I never knew I always wanted to see. (osencrantz & Guildenstern are also amazing -- like, Rosencrantz actually does want to be Hamlet's friend but they haven't seen each other since they were, like, twelve, and it's AWKWARD. Meanwhile Guildenstern wants to be ANYWHERE BUT HERE. <3 And for the whole first half, the Polonius family CRACKED ME UP.
I am a little iffy on Ophelia's madness scene, though, and the way they cut the play made it seem like it was entirely plausible that Hamlet offed R&G himself and then hitchhiked back to Elsinor without ever seeing any pirates, and I still can't decide whether Gertrude knew the cup was poisoned and committed suicide or not. But Hamlet killed Claudius with his sword-tip instead of with the poisoned cup and a chandelier, and it was kind of badass.
AND THEN HE DIED IN HORATIO'S ARMS, which is almost as good as dying in the Master's. Although I'm not sure how well I'll be able to handle watching Tennant die twice in almost as many days. /o\
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This version is fucking stellar, or at least it was the sort of Hamlet I never knew I always wanted to see. (osencrantz & Guildenstern are also amazing -- like, Rosencrantz actually does want to be Hamlet's friend but they haven't seen each other since they were, like, twelve, and it's AWKWARD. Meanwhile Guildenstern wants to be ANYWHERE BUT HERE. <3 And for the whole first half, the Polonius family CRACKED ME UP.
I am a little iffy on Ophelia's madness scene, though, and the way they cut the play made it seem like it was entirely plausible that Hamlet offed R&G himself and then hitchhiked back to Elsinor without ever seeing any pirates, and I still can't decide whether Gertrude knew the cup was poisoned and committed suicide or not. But Hamlet killed Claudius with his sword-tip instead of with the poisoned cup and a chandelier, and it was kind of badass.
AND THEN HE DIED IN HORATIO'S ARMS, which is almost as good as dying in the Master's. Although I'm not sure how well I'll be able to handle watching Tennant die twice in almost as many days. /o\
...I'm sorry, I just teal deered all over you.