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Dec. 20th, 2005 12:40 amSaw Lost Hearts on BBC4
Read the story, don't watch the silly TV version.
It wasn't well done at all. ( Read more... )
MR James stories have an elegance, a set of details that tend to stick in the mind, and tension that rises carefully until it all makes sense - and you really wish it didn't.
That adaptation had all the subtlety of Scooby Doo. Cackling mad old men, and explaining everything in advance. No mystery, no suspense. Boring.
On the other hand, its just as well they screwed it up so badly. Because the real story still gives me the creeps big time, and I'm alone in my flat at midnight...
Read the story, don't watch the silly TV version.
It wasn't well done at all. ( Read more... )
MR James stories have an elegance, a set of details that tend to stick in the mind, and tension that rises carefully until it all makes sense - and you really wish it didn't.
That adaptation had all the subtlety of Scooby Doo. Cackling mad old men, and explaining everything in advance. No mystery, no suspense. Boring.
On the other hand, its just as well they screwed it up so badly. Because the real story still gives me the creeps big time, and I'm alone in my flat at midnight...