The Mist (new tv series on Spike)

[kitik]

Another adaptation of the Stephen King story. Probably best not to compare this too much to the movie with Thomas Jane. Love it or hate it (I adored it), a tv show is going to be a different medium at a different pace, with many more differences likely to come.

Anyways, it premieres Thursday June 22 on Spike.

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I'll certainly give it a shot.

 

[Richard Baker]

Loved the film (except for the appropriate but downer ending)

I was disappointed in that we never saw the military experiment which caused the problem in the first place, perhaps in the series we will.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I'll check it out. I do think the movie was perfect, especially the ending.

 

[Hugo Rune]

I'm there for the first episode just to see Clay Davis and Bulldog Briscoe in the same universe together.

"Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiit"
Barks like a dog

Hugo - needs to get out more

 

[sojourner]

Looks like it's going for more of a supernatural/psychological horror than tentacle monster horror.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Well, The Mist is one of my favorite, if not my most favorite, King story, so I'll check it out. That was not the most intriguing trailer of all time.

 

[Dream]

So are they going to spend 5 seasons trapped in a store?

 

[Mr. Adventure]

So are they going to spend 5 seasons trapped in a store?

The Walking Dead might be up to that challenge.

 

[Dream]

The Walking Dead might be up to that challenge.

My dream is The Stand getting a miniseries on HBO that lasts three seasons. Whoever has the rights need to make that happen!

 

[JD]

Would it still be a miniseries if lasts three seasons?
Never read The Mist story or seen the movie, but this looks interesting, so I might have to check it out.

 

[RJDiogenes]

So are they going to spend 5 seasons trapped in a store?

It's a Superstore.

 

[kitik]

the mall!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Dawn of the Mist.

 

[publiusr]

The east coast was just jealous of all that FOG in Antonio Bay

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Anyone watch this? The first three episodes are actually available on demand.

Spoiler: The Mist

I'm only familiar with the movie not the novella but it seemed in the movie there were large creatures in the mist but this one seems to be mutating natural creatures.

It makes going into the mist a very foreboding and omnipresent threat but also really arbitrary. Like I don't know what the characters are supposed to do with it whereas in the movie it seems you'd have a fighting chance if you could avoid being detected. I don't like horror/suspense where the characters seem to have no chance against the threat.

I think in the movie this is really all more of a setup for the actual horror being other people and how they react when the shit hits the fan. By being more expansive than people trapped in a grocery store which probably works better for television the threat is a lot less immediate so it's playing out in a more decompressed manner.

I really don't like the date rape subplot, the character's reactions to it just don't feel right, it seems the parents aren't particularly worried about the daughter as much as what people think of them. The father punches the sheriff (and parent of the accused) not after suggesting his daughter was promiscuous or careless but only after mentioning his wife is as well (kind of like the garbage scow scene in Tribbles but way more tasteless and icky). The jock then forcing the daughter to touch his hand while he tries to convince her of his innocence was nasty and I'm not sure it was fully aware of it. And they seem to be setting up that it wasn't the jock but her weird sexually confused best friend which seems really unfortunate. The whole thing just feels really exploitative for added "drama" and not because there is any interest in exploring the situation. It feels like it was just thrown in to give the characters something to occupy them while they wait for the situation of the mist to sink in and it seems to important of a subject to use like that.

 

[publiusr]

Not a supermarket but a mall--most of them are dead already. I think Twin Peaks would be a good prequel--with the military trying to open up the Black Lodge dimention--allowing an alien ecology to get out.

 

[Vorpal_Blade]

I think it will be worth a look. I'll be checking it out. I enjoyed the movie but the novella had an 'open' ending. It leaves it open for more to come. The TV series can do that.

 

[RJDiogenes]

The first three episodes are indeed on On Demand, but I've only seen the first so far. The characters are mostly kind of bland. Obviously the family is supposed to be the star and I don't like any of them at all. I also agree about the date rape plot-- it's forced melodrama and it was obvious even in the first episode that the friend is the real rapist.

My favorite characters were the elderly couple and one of them is dead already. The twitchy soldier and the druggie chick with the cash cache were also kind of interesting, but I don't think any of them can carry the weight as main characters (unless perhaps the soldier regains his memory to find out that he was an integral part of the Arrowhead Project). Everybody else was pretty generic so far.

I'm not sure from the first episode if the monsters in this are mutated animals instead of creatures from another dimension, but that would be unfortunate. The crazy monsters, including those dinosaur-sized creatures, were part of the appeal of the original story.

I'm not sure where this will go as a series, but I don't think it will work as a humans-are-the-real-monsters schtick like Walking Dead. I hope they figure out that the source of the problem is the Arrowhead Project and a bunch of them band together to make their way there.

 

[Morpheus 02]

hmmm...too bad they didn't recruit some of the deceased Walking Dead character actors to join the cast...it would make it come full circle!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Especially since some of them were in the movie.