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A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
I'm not sure I'd say that I really thought much about whether I would like Sleepy Hollow or not, but I remember being unenthused by the prospect when I first heard about it. There's something about films and TV shows based on horror classics from to 18th and 19th centuries that tend to rub me the wrong way- because the writers seem to have something against the actual source material. Everyone calls Dracula the great classic of the vampire genre, and yet no movie, TV show or mini-series I've seen has ever actually followed the story from the book (not even the BBC, which is usually good about that kind of thing). Everyone has to put their own spin on it- disregarding Bram Stoker's spin almost entirely. Likewise with Frankenstein (I mean, I'll probably see I, Frankenstein, but I really don't know what the deal with that is, and now there's some Igor movie coming as well. *Sigh*), and so on and so forth. The Burton Sleepy Hollow movie got allowances from me because, in making a movie based on a short story, you have to take some liberties- but a modern show that brings in a whole Biblical apocalyptic battle? Why even bother to make it Sleepy Hollow when it's clearly something else entirely? A lot of people asked that question, and I expected to agree.
But I watched it and I had a whole lot of fun. While I don't think that people who criticize the show entirely have the wrong end of the stick, I enjoy the hell out of it all the same. I love the characters and all the bizarre twists and the general monster-mashy feel of it. It's so crazy- and so unashamed of its craziness- that I love it very much. I can't wait to see what they do next!
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I'm not sure I'd say that I really thought much about whether I would like Sleepy Hollow or not, but I remember being unenthused by the prospect when I first heard about it. There's something about films and TV shows based on horror classics from to 18th and 19th centuries that tend to rub me the wrong way- because the writers seem to have something against the actual source material. Everyone calls Dracula the great classic of the vampire genre, and yet no movie, TV show or mini-series I've seen has ever actually followed the story from the book (not even the BBC, which is usually good about that kind of thing). Everyone has to put their own spin on it- disregarding Bram Stoker's spin almost entirely. Likewise with Frankenstein (I mean, I'll probably see I, Frankenstein, but I really don't know what the deal with that is, and now there's some Igor movie coming as well. *Sigh*), and so on and so forth. The Burton Sleepy Hollow movie got allowances from me because, in making a movie based on a short story, you have to take some liberties- but a modern show that brings in a whole Biblical apocalyptic battle? Why even bother to make it Sleepy Hollow when it's clearly something else entirely? A lot of people asked that question, and I expected to agree.
But I watched it and I had a whole lot of fun. While I don't think that people who criticize the show entirely have the wrong end of the stick, I enjoy the hell out of it all the same. I love the characters and all the bizarre twists and the general monster-mashy feel of it. It's so crazy- and so unashamed of its craziness- that I love it very much. I can't wait to see what they do next!
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