Lazy journalism - generally awful goth article

[mrph]

I was expecting better from the Grauniad, especially after the recent review of Paul Hodkinson's book. *sigh*

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,795915,00.html

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[mrph.livejournal.com]

Yup. They said much the same on Newsnight Review last night, too - with the added insult that "From Hell" was another such case (have they read From Hell?! The movie dumbed it down so much...).

The one fair comment on Newsnight (can't remember if it's in the Guardian too) was that it's watered down because it's an adaptation of an adaptation - which I hadn't initially realised. It seems the comic was itself inspired by Lone Wolf and Cub (which makes me very curious about the ending, as the English translation of LW&C is still three months from its conclusion... :-)

Of course, they then followed that up with "and that's manga, so you can't expect much depth" and blew their credibility again. *sigh*