King.

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As I'm sure many of you know, I'm a great big Stephen King fanboy. Adore his stuff. Hate to ever say a bad word about him.

However.

I've now watched parts one and two of Rose Red.

I was really expecting a little something more than an homage to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.

"Homage," of course, being an Old French word for "blatant attempt at ripping off the structure and style of another's work without understanding a single goddamn thing about what made it work."

Ahem.

Thanks and apologies to retcon and treebyleaf, who, after pointing out to me how Christ-awful it looked from the commercials, were kind enough to give into my begging and taped it for me anyway.

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Yeah, that's true enough. The difference, though, is that The Shining is, at the very least, a competent homage, with its own sparks of originality.