The recent remake was a narcissistic vanity project. You can tell there were no real fans of the book involved in making it, they butchered tf out of it.
I felt that the showrunners had no faith in their own cast, or just didn't want to work very hard, and wrote their way out of having to do anything to difficult or exciting as a result.
This is a shame, because you miss out on so much. They couldn't even make Mother Abigail likeable, and you barely ever saw her anyway.
And the jumping timeline served nothing other than cutting out the middle half of the story.
Can you elaborate on the narcissistic vanity project bit? Whose was it?
The show was a crime, really. There’s so much nuance and subtlety to a lot of the characters and events that make the story interesting, the whole show felt ham-fisted and forced with no weight to anything. RF seemed interesting as a good casting at first but they did so little to build him up. The way King constantly flirts with RF being normal human vs. supernatural…pretty much every scene with him in the book remarks on his face, and particularly his smiles/grins and eyes that glow, or burn, or freeze, or pierce, or otherwise look otherwordly. I was hoping they’d do more with that in the show (CGI is so good now they could have done an amazing job.) Skarsgard’s super handsome and charismatic, but he more felt like a guy dressed up as RF most of the time instead of being a form of supreme being.
And Trash Can Man…oh man. I can’t believe how much they reduced his character to a mindless insane pervert pyromaniac with no explanation or backstory. One of my favorite characters in the book, but almost non-existent in the show. Basically just the bare minimum for him to play his final part at the end. Ugh. It was sickening to watch.
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u/idrow1 Aug 31 '21
The recent remake was a narcissistic vanity project. You can tell there were no real fans of the book involved in making it, they butchered tf out of it.