King.

[icebluenothing]

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.

Comments

[treebyleaf.livejournal.com]

King is a total Jackson fanboy; I find it impossible to read _The Shining_ without a constant awareness of it as a retake of _Haunting_.

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

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.

[ilion.livejournal.com]

You never did tell me what you thought made Tommyknockers so goddamn awful.

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

You're right, I never did. I have to admit, the truth is, I can't really remember in any detail; I just remember being disappointed and annoyed by it.