You know, after watching the last episode I was thinking the exact same thing. I'm not sure I like the direction they seem to be going in with regard to the Mist being more "supernatural" than "Sci-Fi" if you know what I mean. Like you, I'll probably stick out the season, but I think this is a big mistake.Originally Posted by Johnny Alien
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This show is in a death spiral. Hopefully they don't prolong the agony with a second season which would be brutal. I have learned something from this show. If you ever hang yourself at the mall, security will randomly select a high school kid to cut your body down. So it hasn't been a complete waste of time.
I felt that the actress playing the daughter was pretty good in the first two (or three) episodes, but when confronted by that monster in the recent episode, she didn't seem scared out of her wits and her behavior was off. Maybe it's intentional, since it's a mystery why she was spared. Still like it mucho, mucho better than UTD but I hope the pacing and some of the performances gets better. I don't mind the mystery of the mist, though
You just know that weird "Children of the Corn" guy in the church is TROUBLE!
I'm sorta hoping the daughter has been somehow compromised by the mist.
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I really don't like the way the writing seems to be going on this. The Foreign Monsters/creatures were'net enough? Now, it appears the "Mist" itself is active? I'm very wary of another UTD. They should have stuck to the source material and changed perspectives, IMHO
Exploring the military angle would have been great without the new properties. JMHO
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Liked so much the first three episodes - the pilot really got me hooked. The last two episodes were lacking, especially the recent one which was close to being terrible. Except for the end with all the leeches. Stand By Me Gone Loco! The kissing scene in the bathroom...I hope there's a reason and a meaning, except for just trying to make daring TV. I hope the show picks up speed in the next episode. It does not deserve to be another UTD
Can anyone explain why they needed to take that guy to the ER to remove the pipe? The only thing in the ER appeared to be a staple gun and some bandages. Not a great trade-off for not having a doctor. I learned another important survival skill from this episode. If someone removes a pipe-like object from your liver and it starts to bleed like a mother, then the doctor's advice is to "put more gauze on it." LOL. That may have unintentionally been the funniest scene that I've seen in a long time.
Indeed.
This was another example of something we've seen more than once on this show: something interesting hints at the possible development of a situation from which maybe we'll learn a bit more and/or something interesting will happen, and then...not much. I guess the buildup there was to the
Spoiler:
...but even that seemed pretty underwhelming.
For me, there's waaaaaay too much personal interest/personal backstory stuff and nowhere near enough mist action/mist backstory. We're halfway through the season and we still don't know shit about Arrowhead. I don't care about past relationships! I don't care about love triangles (or whatever the hell they were hinting at)! I don't care about repressed sexuality! Good God - are they under direct threat of immediate harm or not? It feels like a lot of padding, for the purpose of leaving a reason for a future season...but I don't want a horror soap opera.
Still with it for now, but it really is starting to feel like I'm throwing good time after bad, trying to make good on an investment of time that I can't undo.
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Indeed.
This was another example of something we've seen more than once on this show: something interesting hints at the possible development of a situation from which maybe we'll learn a bit more and/or something interesting will happen, and then...not much. I guess the buildup there was to the
Spoiler:
...but even that seemed pretty underwhelming.
For me, there's waaaaaay too much personal interest/personal backstory stuff and nowhere near enough mist action/mist backstory. We're halfway through the season and we still don't know shit about Arrowhead. I don't care about past relationships! I don't care about love triangles (or whatever the hell they were hinting at)! I don't care about repressed sexuality! Good God - are they under direct threat of immediate harm or not? It feels like a lot of padding, for the purpose of leaving a reason for a future season...but I don't want a horror soap opera.
Still with it for now, but it really is starting to feel like I'm throwing good time after bad, trying to make good on an investment of time that I can't undo.
I'd agree to a large degree. Seems to me that the original story left plenty of room for a series to explore different aspects/angles without enhancing the original premise or, revisiting topics dealt with in the original (religeon i.e.).
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I'm getting to be like you guys. I enjoyed the first couple episodes, but now I'm getting to the point of "Let's start having things happen."
One really big issue I have with the show is that Kevin's group CONSTANTLY goes out into the mist and they get off without a scratch. In the movie and novella, going out into the mist was the big climax, the last-ditch effort to escape and find what's out there. Now that they keep doing it, it's kind of weakening the stakes.
And I thought they'd be doing a lot of Arrowhead stuff with this series, but now it looks like that's not the case. The mist has...weird ghost images in it?
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Spot on!!! Tell me about it!!! At least the title screen now references a "Story by Stephen King"!!! lol
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The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
The Arrowhead angle is so rich with unexplored possibilities; how does someone adapt The Mist and leave that alone? When the soldier volunteered to accompany Eve in an early episode, I thought, "here we go!", but they just left it there.
It seems I'm miles above the surface of the Earth
I can see across the whole of London and beyond
And it really bothers me that the opening credits say it's based on "the novel by Stephen King." Not a novel! Novella!
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At over 50,000 words, most venues would consider it a novel. If it were submitted for a Nebula Award, for example, it would end up in the novel category (> 40,000 words)And it really bothers me that the opening credits say it's based on "the novel by Stephen King." Not a novel! Novella!
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Has The Mist ever seen stand-alone release?
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I can see across the whole of London and beyond
Yes -- it was a movie tie-in mass market paperback.
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Says novella right on the cover.
I know the definitions of novel and novella aren't hard and fast, but might it be considered a novel by virtue of having a standalone publication?
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It is whatever people choose to call it. If someone wants to call it a novel because it fits that category, so be it. If someone else wants to call it a novella...yup, okay. The TV people decided to call it a novel -- probably because the term "novella" isn't necessarily familiar to all viewers.
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That's just alternative facts, Bev.
Yup, that's the one I bought when the movie came out in 2007.Yes -- it was a movie tie-in mass market paperback.
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In France, the novella THE MIST was released individually within an imprint with bigger typefont (and in 2 volumes) for people that suffer from eyesight issues.
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This is getting brutal... one more episode and I'm out if it doesn't get better!
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Here are the movie tie-in paperbacks (US on the left, UK on the right):
John
All 10 episodes will be available on Netflix in the UK and Canada on August 25.
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