The welfare of my people is ever closest to my heart!

[ironymaiden]

now that US Thanksgiving has passed, it is time to soothe away the last of 2020 with Hallmark Christmas movies.*

there is a whole sub-genre of them set in some made-up tiny European country that really loves Christmas, which C has declared is Latveria. it pleases me to refer to each bland royal love interest as Doom (and his friend/close advisor as Doombot).




*only the main Hallmark Channel where it's G-rated romance with almost no conflict; tear-jerkers are from the Movies & Mysteries brand and not what i am looking for even in a good year

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[mimerki]

I watched Netflix' Knight Before Christmas last night. The heroine's family has an ornament from their parents' (grandparents'? I wasn't paying enough attention) trip to Christmas Prince's Latveria, but it is clear that they are Latverian emigres. If not the parents' generation, then grand or great-grand parents. Probably they came over after one of the World Wars: long enough for nostalgia, but also long enough to have almost completely assimilated.

[ironymaiden]

i appreciate that there is a Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe.

i have a bunch of the Hallmark ones on the DVR, BTW. i was not impressed with the new (or new to me) one where Latveria is into ice skating, but i think A Timeless Christmas might be genuinely good? it has a time travel plot and we paused it a couple times to check on the references and it was substantially correct and (unlike ice skating Latveria) seemed to know something about live performance. plus the Doom (American industrialist inventor, so maybe Stark or Richards?) was more attractive than the usual standard.