Carnivàle babble.

[mrv3000]

I found this just SO interesting. Normally I'm not really big into behind-the-scenes stuff for any show, but this is an explanation of the title sequence for Carnivàle. If you've seen the sequence, the picture slides in and out of tarot cards - into artwork and archival footage from the 1930s. It's very cool. But there's a whole lot of meaning in all the shots they used...

http://www.hbo.com/carnivale/behind/credits/index.html

No wonder it won an Emmy for Main Title Design.

Only two disks left to come from Netflix and the end. *sighs*

You know, I'm finding myself just not very interested in plain old movies these days. Well, sometimes I still am. But I think I've gotten used to this more involved style of storytelling that's been going on in TV for a while now. Some of these things are almost like really, really long mini-series or something. Like Slings and Arrows, or Carnivàle. I'm betting Rome is a bit like that as well. *movies up in Netflix queue* But I think I like it more when stories take 20 hours to tell instead of just 2.

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[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It's a very blatant good versus evil plot, overlaid on two different settings - a traveling carnival and a preacher. There's this whole unraveling premise that the war in heaven is being played out on Earth - two specific people who were born with powers and abilities - passed down, and who are fated to play out good vs. evil. Loads of mysticism.

The interesting thing is that you're not exactly who's good and who's evil - you get a good idea, but you're not exactly *sure* what's all going down, especially with the secondary characters.

In addition to these two people, you've got a lot of other characters at the carnival with their own stories and plots going on that sometimes work into the bigger plot and sometimes not.

Not sure if that helps or not. It's kind of a hard show to describe.