LogFAQs > #948434892

Well, just one episode down, but so far the old stand seems much better even though it looks like it was significantly shorter.

First, the cast, so far, does not hold a candle to the previous cast.

Franny is almost dislikable in this one, Molly Ringwald was a great Fran, but honestly her character for the most part isn't THAT important. Sue Redmand though, Garry Cinese (sp) was freaking great as Stu, and this guy has none of his charisma.

Most of the first episode revolved around the above characters stories along with Harold (neither actor really stood out to me, though I did prefer the old harold slightly). The story was also more disjointed jumping around in time, and didn't involve some of the main characters at all.

If coming at it fresh, without having seen the previous one, I would say it is fairly decent. The problem is the original mini-series had a great sound track to draw you in, had a few really good actors playing main characters right from the start (Stu/Fran/Nick/Larry/Trashcan man/Nadine/floyd and of course Randal).

In the mini series you only really see stu/fran/harold for the first episode), you get a glimps at randal, but, I don't see any way he's gonna compare well with the Randal from the original (Jamey Sheridon was freaking awesome).

Also, it seems to be going a bit away from the books as well, changing things up a bit more, while the first was very true to the books, and in a weird twist, actually showed more of what happened in the books, even though this mini series is going to be longer.

Not impressed so far, but I was a big fan of the original. I'm keeping an open mind though and hope it'll draw me in. Hope they get a good actor for nick (not sure you can beat rob low), and honestly not sure about Whoopie as mother abigal yet.

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