Read it because its here.

Okay not a movie, but a miniseries and not Skoto, but the Brothers Karamazov. I just liked the way Skoto the Movie sounded. Anyways there are two major things I like about what I've seen so far. I like the guy they have playing Grigory. I didn't think so at first, but when he is dealing with Smerdy and then when he was just standing there saying, "He was insolent to me," referring to Dmitry, I thought he made a perfet Grigory. I also like Anatoliy Belyy as Ivan. I think he shows Ivan as the odd one out as he was in the novel. Physically he is different with a different build and darker looks. Even though he is the full brother of Alyosha it was almost as if he were thought of as the half brother. Not by Alyosha of course, but by Fyodor mostly.

Of course there were a lot of discrpencies from the beginning with the boys being together as children. I didn't really like this as that would have allowed all three brothers to bond as children as that just seems like it would have changed the brotherly dynamics from the book. Fyodor in the beginning looked too clean and put toegther; not how I imagined him I must say. He is growing on me though as the chracter I picture as we go along. To be honest If I hadn't read the book and knew the story I think I would be confused with what was going on. It is a little choppy. That's to be expected I suppose if you don't want the miniseries to be 12837697 hours. (ha! I just converted that to days just to see and it's 534904 days)

So far I like the actresses playing Katya and Grushenka. Smerdyakov is slimy from the beginning and we are told right away that he is the illegitimate son of Fyodor and that he has epilepsy. Does not leave much guessing to do, but with the multitude of plots in this story I suppose there could be some taken out for times sake.

Oh and Bratya Karamazovy is available on youtube for anyone that wants to watch it if we can't finish it in class.