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A couple of questions (spoiler)

posted 12 years ago by Goodbye_from_Fox_In_A_Box
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1). How close was this version to the book? It was nothing like the 70's movie at all. New characters, character action changes, etc... So which version is truer to the book? In this version, compared to the book: Was Lindquist in there? Was Stark a good guy? Did Susan figure out the corrupt doctors were using genetics to find the perfect candidates for their studies? Was Mark Susan's Resident? (or Attending?)? Was the electrician loony and try to kill Susan?

2). How do you suppose they went about finding employees for the Jefferson Institute? What they were doing was highly illegal, and each and every employ is complicit and guilty of both judicial laws and morality and ethical ones. Do you think they just didn't know that every coma patient was not there by "natural" cause? Though the EMTs or transport people most definitely know. They're evil.

I was so disappointed with this miniseries. It looked like it was going to be so amazing, but it fell so flat Columbus dropped off of the world when he reached the horizon. Just bloody awful. Great actors, but wtf happened to Geena Davis' face?!?!?! She has so much filler in there and collagen in her lips I thought her head was going to explode! And her voice. Omfg. She always had somewhat of a man-ish voice but it got even deeper. Oy.

This movie should have been so great. On paper, it should have worked. They made a mistake by dragging out the killer chasing Susan at the bio-lab scenes. I don't know, it just didn't have the impact the original movie had. That was creepy. Elizabeth Ashley scarred me for life! Ellen Burstyn is a great actress, but she has nothing on EA when it comes to that role. And the bodies hanging from the wires. Wires! I was so skeeved! This movie, not so much. What a disappointment.

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[–] leader-7 12 years ago

1). How close was this version to the book?

not at all close to the book, which i'd read a couple of times. The movie w/ Bujold and M. Douglas was a very close to the original version.

It was nothing like the movie at all. So which version is truer to the book? In this version, compared to the book: Was Lindquist in there? Was Stark a good guy? Did Susan figure out the corrupt doctors were using genetics to find the perfect candidates for their studies? Was Mark Susan's Resident?

Yes, he was her attending, and they were living together as lovers.

Was the electrician loony and try to kill Susan?

there was no electrician in the book; and genetics was not part of the selection process. I'm certain the updated that part of the story because DNA is all the rage now. In the book, it was only about harvesting organs for transplant once they had a tissue match.

2). How do you suppose they went about finding employees for the Jefferson Institute?

this is part of a backstory that the book never addresses and since it's part of a huge fiction, none of that really matters... right? We have a tendency to get caught up in analysis paralysis looking for logic at every turn. i'd say, 'who cares' to that part of it.

it fell so flat [i] it did indeed. As for the fact that they called it a miniseries, if you extracted the time out for the commercials, I'm figuring it actually could have been just one longish movie. (For every hour of commercial programming you get 45 minutes of viewing or less).

Elizabeth Ashley scarred me for life! me too!
Ellen Burstyn is a great actress, but she has nothing on EA when it comes to

What a disappointment. total disappointment. I really wanted to love it because i love medical mysteries, and medically based sci fi.