eldritchhobbit

Oh, I hope you enjoy "Ripper Street" as much as I have!

YES, thank you for bringing up the "Romantic" issue! Great point. My guess is that someone on the writing staff was fumbling toward the term "Gothic" and never found it. Poe often was writing in the Gothic tradition (among others), as were some of the Romantics (including both Shelleys), but that doesn't make Poe a Romantic.

Your point about Poe's preoccupation with death being based on others' deaths, not his/his narrator's own, is exactly what they missed by a mile. Painfully. And repeatedly. And, you know, that doesn't take reading more than a Wikipedia article to set right. (God forbid they should actually consult with someone who knows anything about this...) I really, really felt for the cast, because given a good script, they could have make something of it. There's no shortage of talent there among the actors. *sigh*