I said abolish and I fucking meant it

I'm always prepared for an adaptation to have to make changes but this felt incredibly sloppy.

Well. Cannot recommend if you loved the books. Disappointing.

Oh absolutely not.

I'm not going to do spoilers but they fully changed the entire mystery conclusion. Why would you do that.

Ugh.

Unrelated but these writers do not respect Joyce as a character at all and it's pissing me off at this point.

Ohhhh no. No no no.

Why the fuck would they change the plot this much.

This is so unnecessary. And it's a worse plot!

Ugh I hate it.

I kind of wish it was worse. It's ... fine. But with this cast it could have been brilliant. All the potential in the world.

I'm going to have to re-read the books after this and think of what might have been.

The casting director did their damn job. All of these actors would have been brilliant at depicting those characters. The script isn't showing those characters, though. Ibrahim and Ron are perhaps closest. Bogdan and Jason, no. Chris and Donna, no. Elizabeth and Joyce, no. They're oversimplified.

The books have this charm. Everyone is so human and funny and flawed and capable, all in different ways. It's such an achievement to make six central characters all of those things, and I feel like whoever wrote the script for this didn't understand what made the books good.

It's so weird to see what they cut and what they made a huge effort to keep. Someone was weirdly attached to the alpacas, for example, but I feel like the writers are strangely uninclined to spend time with Joyce, who comprises our POV half the time in the books.

Ohhh. No. We just introduced a plot twist that is directly antithetical to the way these characters were written and is unnecessary for the plot. Extra interpersonal drama for no reason. Why? The plot is full of plenty of drama already!

They also made room to add a whole new character who isn't in the books and give her a remarkable amount of screen time considering how fast we're moving through establishing the actual main characters.

Elizabeth also feels quite aggressive and unsubtle. None of the finesse she has in the books. A waste of Helen Mirren, really.

I feel like they couldn't decide to make Chris and Donna bumbling or competent, so they just take it in turns to do both.

It's one thing for a competent character to be caught in an awkward situation and stumble a bit but it's like, cartoon bumbling and then super on it. Feels inconsistent.

I feel STRESSED trying to keep up and I already know what the plot is!

It's such an incredible cast. There could have been so much more room for them to ACT. Instead we're trying to cover ground as fast as possible.

It feels ... idk. Netflixy, I suppose. Just give the people what they want to see. Make sure to cram it all in for minimal budget.

I have some minor nitpicks about what's been changed plotwise but I get that stuff needs to be simplified for a film medium.

I don't care for what they've done to Donna. She comes off as bumbling, which she absolutely isn't, and we don't get her simmering frustration at all.

I just wish they'd done, like, maybe an 8 episode show. It needs more time to breathe. The first HOUR should have covered meeting Joyce, introducing her to the club and getting her settled in, and Ventham's fight with Curran, Bogdan's tangential involvement. Fin.

Oh and we also covered what's up with Elizabeth, Stephen, and Penny. We've met Jason. We've met Bogdan. We've met Father Mackie (barely, but still). If I hadn't read the books I'd be completely lost about what I'm supposed to be paying attention to and who everyone is.

In the space of what is theoretically maybe two days? We've introduced Joyce as brand new to Coopers Chase and the Thursday Murder Club, covered Ventham wanting to sell Coopers Chase, introduced Donna, had Ventham/Curry's fight, and held a meeting to object to Ventham's plans. It's too fast.

Started watching The Thursday Murder Club movie.

Listen the casting is impeccable, but 15 minutes in, it feels far too fast paced. We're absolutely whipping through plot points, and we've oversimplified everything.

I wish they'd made it a TV show instead of a movie.

I'm not proud but I am, at least, sort of fed.

ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

the regime now openly says it will use its supercharged spy capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions. Labeled as “domestic terrorists” by the administration, these targets include anti-ICE protesters and anyone who allegedly funds them

No YOU'RE eating three balls of burrata for lunch at 2 pm because sometimes you're bad at feeding yourself.

It's like the internet itself really. There are plenty of valid uses for the internet. But we use it mostly for things that aren't great for us and actively degrade many things that ARE good for us.

I saw valid uses. One guy had an AI bot that transcribed all the meetings for him so he could refer back later for details if he forgot. That makes sense. But the same software is used by students who think it's "for studying" and it's just ... not going to help with that.

And honestly that IS a valid use of it. They were devs, they didn't have solid essay writing skills, they struggled with how to write a hook or move from this part of the info to the next part in a natural way. But that's not how most people want to use it. They want no-effort core content.

I did sympathize with the devs at my company who wanted to use it not for the content of their posts, which would be far too technical for an AI to even approach, but for things like an intro paragraph and transitions. They'd put in the content of their own work and ask for it to be made an article.

Some people do, for sure. But to get AI to write an email that actually says what you want it to say, you have to be good at communicating with the AI. So like. It won't help anyone who couldn't already do it themselves.

I hope it turns out he didn't do it, tbh. It would be a rare instance of a rich kid using his privilege to some purpose. Because if he didn't do it, he's been allowing people to think he did, which has surely allowed the real shooter to get away with it.

Then Luigi shuts up and lawyers up, as kids from money are wont to do, and here we are.

As I say, I don't know if he did it. That theory of why he had evidence on him works either way. But I like to try to make the stuff that doesn't track make sense.

If it's like ... cops have detained a couple dozen guys on the profile, this guy turns out to have a notebook about his health stuff, and someone realizes via his wallet that his insurer is United? Maybe someone is like "Hey so if he ALSO had a gun, this guy could be THE guy, we'll be heroes."