Game of Phones

[sabotabby]

princealberic, this one's for you:

Comments

[princealberic.livejournal.com]

I don't see why you'd hate it, although this season feels a bit different. I think there's less action and it's more subtle, but I'm really enjoying it. It's just making me more nervous than the previous season haha.

[sabotabby]

Less action would be the correct decision, I think. One of the flaws in the first season, I thought, was too much action. Genre-wise, it should be all about tension with short, shocking outbursts of violence. 99% of LeCarré is just people talking to each other.

[princealberic.livejournal.com]

I agree. I think that by the time S1 ended it was getting distracting that they were involved in epic car chases and gunfights every episode or so. I just didn't know if less action would be a pro or a con for you haha.

[sabotabby]

It's highly context-dependent, but for someone who enjoys shit blowing up as much as I do, I'm surprisingly big on things without action. Particularly in spy fiction. (I mean, I do enjoy Bond racing around cars and getting into fisticuffs, but that's action-adventure, not proper espionage. Proper espionage should be dudes in ill-fitting suits having indecipherable conversations.)