Huge fan of the original novella and author-and not disappointed in the effort so far. It would be a great film or even mini-series. The original story is quite atmospheric and Lovecraftian a very early story by young Stephen King. This whole thing is going downhill rapidly. Surely I am expecting them to be screaming a lot, put in danger, haunted and maybe possessed. The kids seem to be there only for generic haunted house stuff.
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I would expect that sort of comment AFTER 1960, but not a hundred years prior. but then Rebecca had to bring up the whale's feelings. The discussion of whaling in episode 2 was progressing just fine and starting to get into unfair treatment of laborers, etc. The actor is fine, but the lines are just silly. I'm politically very progressive, so that doesn't bother me: Let's use what historical facts we have and tell the story of history in a modern light. Typically, I don't mind some revisionism here and there. Why put her there? The small-minded townspeople thing has been done to death as well. She added nothing to the story that seemed to be building just fine on it's own. The "crazy, tilted-head" trope is boring and they need to come up with something new. Then the "crazy woman ghost" eating the apple. why? There was no build up to that specifically, and it just appeared for effect only.
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In episode two, for example, the "ghost" guy behind the bedroom door. My problem with this is that it's just cramming in too many modern horror tropes for no reason.
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It's a damn near 50 year old short story how else would you stretch it into a lengthy television series other than major overhaul? No biggie. Honestly, I could care less about the changes in the story.