At the end of the fourth episode, I was ready to bail, but I thought, "After that set-up, surely this is going to pay off, right?" and stuck it out. Always trust your gut on things like this.
Thank you. This essay helped solidify something that had been running on the back of my brain about streaming television for a while: the followthrough. Namely, how can you do a modern take on older myths when half of the viewership will scream bloody murder if the story doesn't hew directly to the original, the other half get upset at being expected to do homework for their television, and the executives who signed for it did so only because they half-remember reading about it in grade school?
I'm so glad it wasn't just me.
At the end of the fourth episode, I was ready to bail, but I thought, "After that set-up, surely this is going to pay off, right?" and stuck it out. Always trust your gut on things like this.
Thank you. This essay helped solidify something that had been running on the back of my brain about streaming television for a while: the followthrough. Namely, how can you do a modern take on older myths when half of the viewership will scream bloody murder if the story doesn't hew directly to the original, the other half get upset at being expected to do homework for their television, and the executives who signed for it did so only because they half-remember reading about it in grade school?