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Just finished to binge-watched the first season of dead boy detective and I really enjoy it. It has everything that I love in fiction like ghosts, murders, occult, witch, crow, cats... The editing is so good, fresh and dynamic with comicbook vibe looks. I also like the silly sense of humor. They are also very good dosing the horror to make suitable to a large audience without loosing the creep atmosphere. The characters are great! Charles and Edwin self growth are well written. I like Crystal too, but sometimes seems the story focus more on her drama and even when the other speak about their issues she always talk about her loosing memories and the daemon. I sometimes wished the other characters, specially Charles to argue more with her. In general I think the character tends to tiptoe to each other too much with a lot of comprehensiveness and counseling and some times they seem a little bit fake to me. I would like to see more fights and incomprehension. But those are my tastes and, despite everything I was touched in a lot of those dialogues.Another thing, Niko is lovely but I feel her character is the stereotypical kind-strange Japanese girl loved by everyone. She almost identical to Yukio in Deadpool 2. I think the eventual second season could be even better with the characters properly seated in their role. I'm looking forward to see more cases with them and more cameo from Sandman characters.

P.s Jenny, i love you

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Hi! Can you help me? I think I'm going crazy. I'm watching the 5th episode of Dead boy detectives and, little SPOILER, I can't stop thinking where did I see the actress who plays Maren, the girl murderer. Did she plays other roles or she resemble other actress? Sorry, but I can't find her name in the cast list

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I just saw the first episode of Dead Boy detectives and, even if I love the editing, the atmosphere and the characters seem interesting, I think Netflix screenwriters need to chill out. Because the several tropes are not the only similarities with Lockwood and co. Just in the first episode there are three cases and several arguing between the main characters, most of them about trust issues, even though the ghosts and the girl met each other just the day before. The story is too fast pacing and some dialogues are kind of paradoxical. For example, when Edwin is angry with the medium girl because he thinks she doesn't care about the cases and the victims when she was the one who prayed them to save the little girl. I think Edwin was just being irrational and jealous but the fact she ended to justify herself (to an unknown guy who accuses her out of the blue with baseless facts) seems to me an illogical response. In general I think the story needs to breath a little and not every issues need to come up immediately and be dealt with the same urge. Like in Lockwood and co tv series I feel they want to reveal most of the characters' personal issues to make them likable to the audience as soon as possible. It seems the want to avoid any misunderstanding or conflictual opinions from the viewers about them. Obviously this just my first impression and maybe the writing will get a better pacing

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Got and HP have proved that a good movie adaptation is when they follow religiously the books. Neither Lockwood and co or Percy Jackson needed so much changes they already worked well on screen. Also stop with "only good cgi is allowed" if it means less story and action. Bad cgi is good too

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Since we are near to the show anniversary and it's blue Monday, I come back to complain about the show again. Maybe i've already said this but in my opinion adapting two books in the first season was a dumb move. I think the first book is the easiest to adapt with a limited budget because it has only two big ghost cases and than mostly shadows. So it would had been more logical to use the first adaptation to show the characters, the world, captivate more audience and get more time and money to adapt the "Hollow Boy" which is the most difficult. Instead they already used a lot of budget in the first season without considering the next season would had been more expensive and complicated.

Another point is the fixation about CGI. In an interview they said that lot of the budget went to the creation of Annabel and Bickerstaff ghosts to make them more credible. I now people usually are picky about special effects but I wish they focused more on atmosphere with creepy sound effects, shadow in background and I wouldn't have minded if the ghosts had been looked like holograms like in HP movies.

My last point is the lowering of humor in favor of more serious and dramatic tone. Besides I don't think a melodramatic script can properly convey the harshness of their cruel situation but most of the main stream shows have lot of humor and silly characters (for example Wednesday, Stranger Things etc.). Not to mention general public love British humor. So even this choice doesn't make sense to me.

I hope I don't sound too rude and I apologize for grammar mistakes. My wish is to see a different adaptation in future. I wanted to vent before the anniversary to don't ruin the moment. But still we are lucky we'll have more contents with the comics coming soon

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I know that everyone has contemplated what type of music each member of lockwood and co listen to. But I haven't seen many post's about that subject. So I'm honestly not sure.

All I know is that I think Lucy would listen to Graice abrams.

But what do yall think?

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This! Also they say running water pushes away ghosts. I’ve always asked if the streets are safer during raining night

ok so i've identified the most bizarre thing about Lockwood's London yet. how is the weather so good all the time? where are the days when George gets caught out in a drizzle popping out for doughnuts? when Lucy comes home looking like a wet cat after a case? how bad is it when Lockwood's hair gets soaked???

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Jonathan Stroud is holding an AMA over on Reddit!!

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George is canonically autistic!

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Am I maybe a tiny little bit over the moon that @jonathanstroud answered my question on Reddit's AMA?

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Finallyyy! I have been asked it for ages!!

How George and Lockwood met :')

From the Reddit AMA at r/books

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TEG Spoiler…AGAIN! (Damn Stroud and your open ending. JK, still love ya).

Can you all picture how Lockwood and George would cohabit with the Skull freed from his jar? I imagine it will be funny in a sense with the Skull annoying them and help them time to time in the cases. But if we consider his low moral bar and the fact life and death are pretty the same for him, I wouldn’t sleep at all if I were them. It would be hard for Holly too. I don’t think his distaste for them is totally a facade and I ask how much and how long he will tolerate them for Lucy’s sake.

Also the skull is pretty strong and maybe the cases wouldn’t be so exciting with his power.

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Last book spoiler

Since I’m in mood of theories, I want to talk about the possible long term effect after walking on the other side. In TEG sir Rupert mistakenly implied he can see ghosts. Now h said it’s because “he’s younger than he looks”, which is clearly an excuse, but he didn’t wore spectacles or glasses neither which bring us to three outcomes:

1) he wore special contact lenses made by the Orpheus society

2) he drank that plasm which makes him see ghosts

3) people who crossed the other side can see ghosts even if they are adults.

The only person who can prove the last theory is Quill but the book ended before we can verify it. Also, knowing Quill, I think he would take him a lot before he discovers he can see ghosts without spectacles.

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Last book spoiler

What do you think the characters’ job would be if, after the events in TEG, they solved the problem and the agencies disappeared?

In my opinion, George is easy. He would be a university researcher on the other side.

I could see Holly as politician.

Lucy, because in the books she is the writer of Lockwood and co events, in my mind, she casually discovers to have a passion for literature ( I can see her witty comments about Charles Dickens’ work) goes to university and becomes a writer/professor. Otherwise she becomes a Deprac agent with Lockwood

For Lockwood is harder. After the problem is solved I imagine deprac won’t be able to control the agencies so it’s gonna be reduced to a little paranormal investigation section like x files and that is gonna be his job (with Lucy or with Kipps and Lucy and George helps them from time to time) .Otherwise I can’t see him as a Scotland Yard agent so he would be an archeologist… or an actor… or maybe all of them… I don’t know.

Obviously, any character’s premature death is not contemplated.

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This song is so beautiful and elegant. It fits perfectly with her voice, I can’t stop listening it. I like “All eyes on me”too even the chorus don’t fully convince me. I want more song sang by her. I’d like her to peruse the music career more

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That is the reason (even more than “The Problem” mystery) why I love the books.

I love the dialogue in this book. Sure, the kids have these powers and whatnot, but they still talk like teens and make silly mistakes like Lucy with the necklace and Lockwood with the chains, nonchalantly brushing over the stupidity of what they’ve done with an underlying hope that they won’t get into trouble from their peers. Even the argument between George and Lucy, both realising they’re wrong after yelling at one another, moments later apologising.

It’s wonderful in the fact that even with the powers, they’re written to still be ordinary, no one is this super evolved being (that I’ve encountered so far). Even the older characters. Every one is just so… human.

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This scene is killing me. Kipps enjoying is life while Lockwood is almost dead