M-O-O-N, that spells "deaf and dumb".
M-O-O-N, that spells "deaf and dumb"
He never said it....
Nope just
"I'm Tom Cullen, I'm 42 years old and developmentally disabled ...." They didn't even hypnotize him before they sent him off as a spy.
Yeah, that was a great scene from the novel. The man forever denied, "I am God's Tom," and so on. They dropped so much stuff like that for little or no good reason, and there was not nearly enough good new material to replace it.
shareYou'd think with the 3 extra hours they would take all the good bits from the 94 mini series and expound on that.
Somehow they managed to shit all over every character
Stu is a dumbass and a cuck
Frannie is insufferable
Harold Lauder was no near as good as Parker Lewis played him
I liked old Nadine alot better. Couldn't buy someone like her being a teacher glad they left that out really in the 94 series
Larry Underwood was not as good
I could go on and on
(My spoiler policy is to cover only thing unique to this miniseries; I assume anyone looking has read the book and/or seen the 1994 miniseries.)
> Stu is a dumbass and a cuck
And way too confident and gregarious. When he got nervous at the first big meeting, after all his earlier self-assured extroversion, it came off as false and out of character. I'm not saying that's unrealistic, people can be OK one on one and still be scared in front of a crowd. But that was the dramatic not-impact in this case.
> Frannie is insufferable
She's always been that way to me.
> Harold Lauder was no near as good as Parker Lewis played him
And more psychotic than he should have been.
> I liked old Nadine alot better.
Laura San Giacomo made me weak in the knees in '94, although Amber Heard is quite attractive. But Heard's blonde hair ruined the character for me. Nadine is supposed to be a brunette, and her going gray is more than a minor character point.
> Larry Underwood was not as good
He was just there, walking through his paces. That was true of other characters, but more so with him. And where the hell was Lucy? She didn't show up until Stu and Fran were leaving Boulder. By removing her they changed Larry's story altogether.
> I could go on and on
Same here. I did like it that they dumped the mostly useless Sue Stern character, whom I'm guessing King only had in the story so the committee could have the magic number of seven. But I notice you didn't mention Glen. Understandable, it was easy to forget in this version that he was there at all. He's supposed to be Stu's confidante and sounding board. Minimizing his role changes Stu too.
Also, there was Nick. Now, I usually have little sympathy for wokeness and identity politics, including demands that left-handed Chinese Aquarius characters should only be played by left-handed Chinese Aquarius actors. But there had been complaints that he should have been played by a deaf actor. One user here opined that it was necessary that he be played by a speaking actor, anticipating that he'd have to speak in Tom's dreams. But that didn't happen. Nick never said a word at all. So there's room for legitimate complaint here.
I'd better stop, or I'll write a whole book.
I could have mentioned Glen but I would end up writing a book too besides you got my six on that one captain and I agree with all your points
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