#the one consolation prize waiting at the other end of the Shittiest Election (c)

[see-arcane]

I specifically detest how Eggers is going around proudly telling that "it's Ellen's story", but in the same breath he talks about how he gave hysteria to Ellen, and makes it her main feature, trailers are showing that she has death wish now, Ellen is now into Orlok based on trailers and interviews, etc. It's just clearly fanficton bs, like he's adding previously non-existing backstory and traits to Ellen to twist her character into another character for his damn fanfic.

On the one hand, I understand fleshing out the background of characters who had a pretty compact representation in an original story that was more 'Get from point A to point B, hustle, hustle.' It adds meat to a story's bones.

On the other hand, yes, Bobby Egg seems to be in full Ao3 mode at this point. Neither the 1922 or 1979 versions did Ellen as dirty as Eggers' version seems set to, with his grand re-imagining boiling down to 'What if she was crazy-death wish-horny and no one Understood Her like Orlok does and actually all the human characters were jerks or lame (except zany cool un-Van Helsing who gets the idea for the sunrise kill all by himself no girl ideas allowed <3)? What if??'

It's just Francis' same old BS but in gothic cosplay.