#Sibling Rivalry lowkey makes me irrationally angry and now I can articulate why

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I would like to inform my small following that out of all the Creepshow episodes I've watched so far...the only episode that I don't like (even after repeated viewings) is Sibling Rivalry, which comes right after my favorite episode of the series The Right Snuff. Mainly because I thought the main character was fucking annoying, and halfway through I started sympathizing with Molly Ringwald's character because I also stopped caring about the MC's story midway through her telling it. I also found myself WANTING for her brother just to kill her already to get her off of my screen. Also, Sibling Rivalry has one of the worst endings of the series so far in terms of pay-off for all that buildup they did. They literally gave us an anti-climax and a shitty twist as an ending.

I fucking hate that Sibling Rivalry is the sister episode to The Right Snuff, because TRS was SO FUCKING GREAT. It had a great tense mood, an environment that cot downright claustrophobic at times, a deep and philosophical message that would fit right in with The Twilight Zone, the characters were all likeable for the most part (including the one that goes fucking insane), the writing was actually really good too despite leaving my brain with more questions than answers and some minor things that don't make sense within both a meta context and the story. The only "bad" thing about The Right Snuff was the fact that the Gorangi looked awful in terms of their design, along with those aforementioned minor writing hiccups I just mentioned.

Sibling Rivalry has almost no redeeming qualities whatsoever. The characters are one-note and annoying, I do not sympathize with the MC or her fears of her brother trying to kill her, the plot is so fucking boring and predictable once you realize what happened to the MC (which you DEFINITELY will before the episode just flat out tells you), the buildup to the "twist" ending that would make M. Night Shamalan fall asleep was not worth the payoff that was that anti-climactic ending. Not even their version of the episode's monster was fucking original, the main girl literally just looked like someone was told to combine the mouths of Pennywise and Jennifer Check together and add in Venom's tongue for good measure, along with the fact that she acts more like a damn zombie than she does the monster she's SUPPOSED TO BE. I hate that all the blood went into this segment, when Ted's head explosion could have easily gotten more of it, and DESERVED IT MORE! Plus, everything just felt both too rushed and too slow at the same damn time, the pacing in Sibling Rivalry is also fucking awful.