The Trailer Park

I was planning to watch all the Jack Taylor episodes before starting Shadow & Bone, but.... I didn't. Just watched the first episode of S&B and I agree it feels like one doesn't quite know enough of the background/setting. Both the way everything looks and the way people speak seems a mishmash of historical styles - it feels a bit inconsistent, to me, rather than genuine or original. But the story seems interesting, even if I find it hard to follow all the "you can't cross it" vs "I've crossed it 3 times" and "you can't go around" vs "you can go around but it takes months" or the "everyone has to join the army" vs "we have no food" (no kidding - maybe you should allow some kids to grow up and become farmers?)... and how could the people on one side know when the people on the other side was expected to get through, if it takes months to go around (with messages)? Do they have telephones? I didn't see any, if they did...

well I have seen episode 2 now, thanks to Gandalf who wouldn't let me draw (and then promptly left to chase Merlin around after I stopped drawing and started watching Netflix....)

I still find it a bit confusing. Alina arrives at the "Little Palace" which everyone describes as a fort with high walls, but it looks more like Versailles or something. Also, after she arrives, her friends back in the military camp (who, by the way, shouldn't even be on the same side of the Fold anymore? Or did the ship return rather than get through? I'm just not understanding half of it...) says she'll be at the little Palace the day after tomorrow. But wasn't she already there? Or is she in the littlest palace?

On second thought I guess Alexei was the only one who actually crossed the Fold and the ship returned to where it "sailed" from.... Which means the Palace in question is on the East Rivka side... Meh, maybe I'll understand it better later... But not later tonight.

I think I just saw episode 6 but now it's bedtime for me