[ SECRET POST #2582 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2582 ⌋

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Comments

[inevitableentresol]

Fantastic! I love Micheletto fic and there's only a few on A03.

I just finished series 3 and I was so glad they had him right at the end. I thought he might just disappear away.

I do find the layout on ff really hard to read though. My browswer keeps centering the text, and other weird stuff. It's so distracting I usually give up. Never finished a fic there yet. Yours will probably be the first (might have to copy-paste it to Word, there's an idea).

I tried to move all my old fic a long time ago, put it all in one place on A03 from other archives/journals. But re-reading it, I got so embarrassed at how bad my old stuff was and couldn't face it. I got some of it there at least.

A03 isn't complicated, but the tag loading is so slow. I guess it's only got worse by now. Like 20 minutes to add the tags before. But I do love my tags so I've only myself to blame.

[iceyred]

Micheletto is the best character. His character development was so subtle and well-paced, and he was such a dichotomy of horrible murderer and desperately lonely individual. Sean Harris deserves an Emmy. I didn't finish the third season though. My heart was shredded by the eighth and ninth episodes, and then by the network's decision not to renew.

Word might help. There used to be a button to click on ff.net that would make the text bigger. I found that to be useful.

[inevitableentresol]

I was surprised to find myself enjoy Micheletto the best after only a few episodes, since he seemed to be an afterthought to the main line up. I agree that his character arc was the best (Lucrezia's perhaps on a par).

A large part has to be Sean Harris' intense acting. That whipping scene in the first series, for instance, shocked me greatly, and that was mostly just the acting between them (him and a cardinal?)

I think they played up the slashy content a bit strong in the first few episodes between Cesare and Micheletto (as in the kitchen scene). But they dropped that soon for something much more subtle and plot-driven, which was surprisingly even more gripping, since I totally take the slash where I can find it.

If you watched ep 9, you saw most of Micheletto's scenes in that series. The last episode is actually rather good, especially because although Micheletto isn't in it for long, he has a pivotal scene which made my heart rejoice.

But eps 8 and 9 were tough. Wow, they put him through the wringer. Just when it looked like he was getting some happiness, and no one needed it more than him, complete doom. It was so well done the way they showed him at the start completely unable to accept there were nice things happening to him. Although it was obvious it was doomed, since it was The Borgias.

Ha, I just realised I would absolutely read hand-wave happy ending fic for him based on series 3, where it all turns out fine, and he gallops into the sunset with his love and bluebirds tweetle around their heads as they kiss.

[iceyred]

I think the whipping scene was a signal to the audience that 'you have not seen this type of character before' (or at least not very often). That's why I adore him. He's grimy, gritty, and disgusting, and television just doesn't show that very often. Sean Harris plays a lot of those kinds of roles, have you seen any of his other stuff?

The slash content was strong in the first season. Possibly it was a hint at why Miccy follows Cesare, possibly the actors just shrugged and decided to ship their characters. And then their relationship gets deeper and the attraction is still there, but it's less sexual and more something else.

Yeah, episodes 8 and 9. Somewhere, the guy who writes 'Game of Thrones' is slow clapping in appreciation of the character torture. Micheletto just wasn't meant to have a nice life.

I would totes write fix-it fic. If ever a show needed some feel good fix-it fic, it would be this one.

[inevitableentresol]

Miccy hah.

Miccy.

If I even considered trying that fix-it fic it would have to be really long and plotty to be satisfying and I don't think I have the skill. I'd much rather read others.

That historical period interests me, but it's an area I don't know enough about. I really like early music (they do a really good job integrating music from that time along with some slightly later music in a way that's not too literal but still satisfying), and I like a few artists from that period, mostly from their church murals, so most of my knowledge is based around that.

I was disappointed to google the pope's ball-checking scene (with that wonderful pope-chair to allow access) at the start of season 1 to find it was an urban myth. I'd believed that for years. Poo. I'm assuming they knew that, but it was just too fun to pass up.

I feel a little better knowing millions more people will fall for it now it's been on TV.