Frick on a stick! I am spitting mad. I was just surfing through Kevin‘s site when I saw a mention of a trailer for The Dark is Rising. What? You mean the series of books I read as a kid, the ones about the Light and the Dark and King Arthur and all the old British myths? The same series that had Simon, Jane, and Barney searching for the Holy Grail and meeting the Greenwitch, while Will read the book of Grammarye and set Herne the Hunter on the trail of the agents of the Dark? The books I loved so much that when, during our, like, second date, the Snook mentioned that he’d read and loved them too, I made a mental note that he could be “The One”? That series? Well, I had to see this. FOLKS, IT SUCKS. Those two minutes suck up one side and down the other. The Snook and I stood before my computer in stupefied disbelief. Who the hell are these people? Where’s Merriman? Who’s that kid “travelling through time” with Will? Why is Will a snotty teenager? Why is Doctor friggin’ Who playing the Black Rider? And why the hell would you set a series that is about friggin’ KING ARTHUR IN GODDAMN AMERICA?

As the Wikipedia entry sadly notes: “The film is in no way loyal to the original book.” Understatement. Of. The. Year.