Television

Finished Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. I liked it but some warnings. Its one of those series that can kinda move slowly but then very quickly at parts. Large amounts of time pass and it does not make it very clear. For example someone is at war and there is no direct clue to how much time as passed till one character makes a offhand comment of things the first has done for them which would indicate a bit of time. At that point there was sorta three scenes and on hindsite im pretty sure the second one was a time jump as well. Like letters are written at a time it would take very long to be delivered and you may have to just surmise that so much time passed because they traveled so far or the travel plus activities around travel and management would take so long. That being said I again really liked it. Its just so nicely different from much of the regurgitated stuff we have now and in particular it uses sorta the way fairy stories were long ago. Sorta like rip van winkel or such. Even more authentic feeling than the way american gods did it while still making it unique and its own thing.