TurnedWhyte [2018-04-23 00:06:28 +0000 UTC]
I really did enjoy the books, personally, for a combination of the self-awareness and the mystery aspect. The level of planning it took to wrap everything together fascinated me. Yes, the idea of the parents dying so early on seemed a little cliché, but I always felt the whole point of the books was to take clichés to the maximum specifically to make a strangely surreal world. I didn't mind the movie, but let's be honest; we watch it for Jim Carrey and the odd bit of Billy Connolly. The new series... I haven't actually seen. I want to, I just never had the time for it. I heard that it delves into the other books and, well, I do like Neil Patrick Harris... but I'm not sure about how it will progress. Frankly, I think part of what made the books so great for me was that it felt like something you could not truly do in a live-action film sense because the world itself that was present felt so bloody animated and yet grounded enough that I could see it working in some vague alternate reality. But I think something like that only works in short doses, like a single movie, so I am unsure how I will feel about the series.
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