skygiants

I have been earnestly Not Watching Frankenstein for years now, every time they do an NT Live encore of it (but do they ever do encores of the ones I had to miss, I gripe to myself, like The Beaux’ Stratagem? nooooo), because I don’t really care for the story of Frankenstein anyway. But it felt dumb not to watch it when it was free on YouTube, so I did.

I...would have been annoyed to have paid for it, I think? But I did watch the MillerCreature version, which was a good choice (I also watched the beginning of the CumberCreature version, afterwards): Miller was interestingly childlike, so watching him figure out how to walk felt like cheering on a baby, whereas Cumberbatch felt like someone who already knew what walking was and just couldn’t figure out how to make his limbs do it - which was much less engaging somehow, for me.