Greta Thoughts
Oct. 28th, 2019 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaI liked it well enough.
+ I loved the friendship between Erica/Frances and I liked the choice to make their friendship the main focus outside Greta/Frances. I loved that Erica took things into her own hands and that she did it by searching for an abandoned bag and using Greta’s M.O. against her. Her being the new girl and drugging Greta was great. All Erica/Frances and their clear love for each other was lovely.
+ Greta was suitably creepy in a slow-build way. I found Frances being taken in by her understandable and the way she terrorised Frances felt very realistic and frustrating and I felt for Frances a lot. I liked the sequence where she was following Erika and sending Frances the pictures of it.
+ I thought that bit of ‘oh wait’ horror when you hear Frances banging on the wall and realise that when she first met Greta the banging was Samantha was really well done.
+ I loved Frances taking the first opportunity she got to escape, even if it meant hurting Greta.
+ My biggest issue was that I found it difficult to judge the passage of time. I guess that worked for the latter half by putting you in Frances’s place, maybe? But I wish they’d made it more clear.
+ I was shaking my head at Frances going into the basement instead of trying to break through, say, that huge window in the living room. It made no sense. One of those chairs would have been smashed through it long before I went into the basement! I mean I’d probably go upstairs before the basement, so that bit didn’t entirely work for me.
+ I feel like if Frances had just taken the Samantha post-it note (or even remembered her name) and then tried to contact her afterwards a lot of terribleness might have been avoided. Perhaps Samantha might even have been saved.
+ Definitely could have done without the dog death even if it was mostly off screen. Poor Morton.
+ I loved the friendship between Erica/Frances and I liked the choice to make their friendship the main focus outside Greta/Frances. I loved that Erica took things into her own hands and that she did it by searching for an abandoned bag and using Greta’s M.O. against her. Her being the new girl and drugging Greta was great. All Erica/Frances and their clear love for each other was lovely.
+ Greta was suitably creepy in a slow-build way. I found Frances being taken in by her understandable and the way she terrorised Frances felt very realistic and frustrating and I felt for Frances a lot. I liked the sequence where she was following Erika and sending Frances the pictures of it.
+ I thought that bit of ‘oh wait’ horror when you hear Frances banging on the wall and realise that when she first met Greta the banging was Samantha was really well done.
+ I loved Frances taking the first opportunity she got to escape, even if it meant hurting Greta.
+ My biggest issue was that I found it difficult to judge the passage of time. I guess that worked for the latter half by putting you in Frances’s place, maybe? But I wish they’d made it more clear.
+ I was shaking my head at Frances going into the basement instead of trying to break through, say, that huge window in the living room. It made no sense. One of those chairs would have been smashed through it long before I went into the basement! I mean I’d probably go upstairs before the basement, so that bit didn’t entirely work for me.
+ I feel like if Frances had just taken the Samantha post-it note (or even remembered her name) and then tried to contact her afterwards a lot of terribleness might have been avoided. Perhaps Samantha might even have been saved.
+ Definitely could have done without the dog death even if it was mostly off screen. Poor Morton.
