skygiants

The Angel Soone twist was INCREDIBLE, I had not registered the throwaway line about her unsuccessful interview as relevant in any way and it was incredible that it came back. (Then I briefly thought that Carlyon had lured her there deliberately because of the interview, which IMO would have been even better, but this was still pretty good!)

Yeah, it's honestly kind of fascinating the contrast between the way Katinka frequently thinks about Angela as, like, Gothic monster, and the way she acts/everyone else talks about her in dialogue as, you know, a normal convalescent patient who enjoys taking walks through the countryside and who's (in Carlyon's case, inconveniently) excited to resume her life with her husband ... Katinka really is a sort of Catherine Morland, tbh, with the way she's constantly building up dramatic and sinister and problematic-trope-laden narratives about everyone she encounters, and it's just her good/bad luck that she did actually happen to stumble on a serial killer.

I did find 'a man endowed with the dangerous gift of being able to look sad' extremely funny, in large part because it feels like such a direct callout of fandom twitter (and I suppose the fandom twitter-equivalent of the 1950s as well.)