The Web Recluse
(Re)Discovering the classics. Jekyll and Hyde is one of those stories I thought I knew. I was so wrong. Most adaptations of classics are mostly lies, egos, and wild interpretations. Here's the real story.
Episodes
The Incident Of Dr Lanyon and The Incident At The Window
I decided to do these two chapters together because they are two of my favorite chapters and because the are very similar in feeling and foundation. They greatly shift the tone and focus of the story from slightly confusing and creepy to my fucking god what the hell is happenin...
The Incident of the Letter
Most people who make movies and adaptations about Jekyll and Hyde focus solely on the final chapter of the book. They don’t care about the entire story or any of the other chapters. I don’t think anyone reads them or even cares about them. The ONLY thing that seems to interest anyone is Jekyll’s diary, Jekyll’s manifesto, Jekyll’s v...
The Incident of the Letter
This is one of the chapters that I kind of wish Stevenson’s wife had permanently destroyed. It’s the most contrived, forced, lazy chapter of the whole book. The entire chapter exists to push evidence to the reader that is barely necessary.
I do spend a large chunk of time (the first 20:14 minutes) at the beginning further explaining...
The Carew Murder Case
So much about the story has changed. It even feels different like a lot of time has passed not only in the story but also as far as the writing of the work. It starts very simply and then moves into a whole different tone and writing style.
The most poignant part of this story so far for me has been this chapter. It felt so NOW. It pulle...
The Carew Murder Case
I feel like I missed an entire section of this story. It went from zero to absolute bonkers madness in one page and it felt very jarring and also unbelievable. It’s a known fact that I cannot stand the phrase “all of the sudden” because it’s an absolute cop out for an actual understanding of reality and it’s used here in all it’s nonsens...
Dr Jekyll Was Quite At Ease
Every interpretation of any piece of existing media is valid given that media is entirely subjective and that’s how you get wonderful meta and expanded universes and ideas. I’m not saying that no one should create their own version of something that inspired them … I’m only asking where are the people that ACTUALLY LIKE THE STORIES...
Dr Jekyll Was Quite At Ease
This is one of my favorite chapters of the book as far as really seeing the relationship between Utterson and Jekyll and getting more of a feel for what has been going on from Jekyll himself (a rare voice in the book).
As usual I’m up in arms again about why men interpret this book the way they do. Why do they see Jekyll and Hyde in...
Search for Mr Hyde
If there is one thing I want to get across in this series, it's that different people have different ways of seeing and moving through the world and that absolutely colors how they read and interpret media.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde are the LEAST interesting characters to me and I see very little worth discussing when it comes to how evil, brok...
Search for Mr Hyde
Utterson is nosy AF but he’s truly a quality friend. This is the kind of friend you want to have in your corner. I am still on Hyde’s side considering the horrible nature of the rest of the characters in this story.
As far as I’m concerned how everyone reacts to Hyde is a reflection of who THEY are, not who he is. There are too many contrad...
The Story of the Door
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This is the continuation of my discussion of "The Story Of The Door" which is the first chapter in the book.
So far this absolutely bonkers level of foolishness is only making me like Hyde and hate the "upstanding" members of British society and maybe that's the whole point. They're disgustingly awful peo...
The Story of the Door
In this episode I'll be discussing "The Story Of The Door" which is the first chapter in the book and I can tell you that I'm absolutely not having this wildly epic and bonkers nonsense.
Seriously, make it make sense.
The start to this story is equal parts bizarre and wonderful.
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