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This is pretty much the first time I've ever watched Supernatural.
We spent the opening teaser counting the inaccuracies in the show's version of the death of H.P. Lovecraft - or possibly this is the universe where HPL used a typewriter, drank, and was slashed to bits by monsters in his own home rather than perishing of cancer/Bright's Disease in hospital.
ETA - and apparently he had a dinner party/black mass just before he died!
Also - I think I would like this show better if Jim Beaver were the star.
We spent the opening teaser counting the inaccuracies in the show's version of the death of H.P. Lovecraft - or possibly this is the universe where HPL used a typewriter, drank, and was slashed to bits by monsters in his own home rather than perishing of cancer/Bright's Disease in hospital.
ETA - and apparently he had a dinner party/black mass just before he died!
Also - I think I would like this show better if Jim Beaver were the star.
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Date: 2011-05-26 02:26 am (UTC)From:Jim Beaver is awesome. If you have the Get Smart series DVDs, check out him hosting his father-in-law's memorial.
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Date: 2011-05-26 03:04 am (UTC)From:Never seen Supernatural, though after scrolly through the reams of Fandom Secrets about whatsits and whoosits, I'm somehow already sick of it...
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Date: 2011-05-26 03:19 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2011-05-26 07:09 pm (UTC)From:Jeffrey Combs played Lovecraft once...well, at least once. Plus quite a few of his characters. I've heard him called the 'first Lovecraftian actor' which I'm not...100% certain is actually a compliment.
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Date: 2011-05-26 07:58 pm (UTC)From:Jeffrey Coombs was a terrific E.A. Poe in the Masters of Horror episode, ‘The Black Cat.’ It’s the only version of Poe I’ve ever seen that gets across how raucously funny, as well as self-destructive, he could be.
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Date: 2011-05-26 08:19 pm (UTC)From:I've not seen his Poe yet, though I've heard good things. Combs is tied with Depp in a distant second for favorite actor. ^_^
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Date: 2011-05-26 11:11 pm (UTC)From:Stuart Gordon also did a terrific adaptation of Shadow Over Innsmouth(Dagon), and, in a completely different style, of Ray Bradbury's The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (sort of like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants if it were about five guys in East L.A. in the 1950s.)
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Date: 2011-05-26 11:51 pm (UTC)From:I find the films easier than the source material in some cases....reading Lovecraft it can be really hard to ignore what a shocking racist he was. I know he was a man of his time, but jeez.
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Date: 2011-05-27 12:15 am (UTC)From:Of course I always wonder which of the things I do will appear unconscionable to future generations; eating meat is most likely, I guess, but perhaps it's taking psych meds or using menstrual pads that will turn out to be wrong.
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Date: 2011-05-27 03:16 am (UTC)From:....I really would, actually.
An' he was such an anti-semite...and his wife was Jewish! In a way you feel sorry for him, cos yeah, most of it was just bitter fear...but in another way, y'just wanna smack him upside the head. Smarten up, y'undertaker-lookin' weirdo.
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