Leitmotifs drive me insane, like I hear *repeated melody that has an association with a person, idea, or situation* and I go *tears up the fucking rug like a dog*
I'm watching The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2 out of morbid curiosity and I can't emphasize enough how ridiculously flamboyant this villain is. This isn't even queercoding. They need to invent a new word for whatever Sarousch is.
very interested in what eco is doing with brother william here---he's the sort of classic Historical Novel Enlightened Protagonist who believes in science and that learning from non-christians is for the ultimate good and that it is better to be too forgiving than too zealous. but I don't think it's just so he can be relateable and avoid making the reader uncomfortable with historical mores? certainly on a practical level it makes him a good detective, but it also allows eco to do a lot of examination of contemporary attitudes about logic, rhetoric, theology, and science, which might be an end of its own for him. I think he's fascinated by how ideas both cultural and technological spread during the early renaissance and the interaction between religion and science.