Man, I’m with you on the election. I was going to comment on your previous podcast, but then the election happened and whatever I was planning on saying got blasted from my brain, probably forever. After that, all my usual pastimes seemed hollow and unfulfilling. In the wake of all the confusion, depression, futility, and lack of faith in humanity that I was feeling, I wanted to do something that felt constructive and optimistic with a sense of accomplishment. So in the end I started playing Dwarf Fortress, a game that encompasses all of those emotions into one bizarre ASCII-based package. It might have worked, but it might have also driven me more insane, so it’s probably a bit of a trade-off.

Moving on, I have read Frankenstein, and it’s definitely worth reading. It’s not that long either, so I certainly recommend checking it out whenever you get the chance. I don’t remember there being any major assistant character at all, so I think that was an addition to the story. Maybe that should come with the warning that it’s been about fifteen years since I read the thing, so I could be misremembering a hell of a lot about it.

But from what I am aware, there really hasn’t ever been a Frankenstein film that has made a real attempt at straight up retelling the book. The original story actually takes place in the arctic, where the monster ran off to because no one else could survive there. Most of the story is told as a flashback of how everyone got there, and I’ve never heard of a film doing that part of the story, though I’m not at all familiar with its various film adaptations.

I think you’ve sold me on Lucy. You know I’m always down for some weird shit, and Morgan Freeman is always fun to watch and/or listen to, so I’ll check that out when I can and let you know what I think.