![]() I know who lives too, and what happens between certain people. I know who, and even when, certain people will die. I also couldn’t but wonder, then, if I was polluting my own experience with future knowledge of these characters. He more implies he will hurt you than dealing out all the punching that happened a bit too much for me. More theoretical pain than actually inflicting it as much as he seems to do in this first episode. Sure, I knew Bigby was the ‘Big Bad Wolf’ and all, but I also knew, as he tells Colin much later, his job works best when there is the threat of violence from him. I can’t help but to think the shock of its violence probably would have worked better had I not been immediately turned off my it. The simmering violence of a “wolf” trapped in the banality of the mundane world. A place where anything could, and probably does, happen. An introduction to a world with a rawness just below the surface. The juxtaposition of a simple conversation and then a life-or-dead struggle. The opening fight with the Woodsman smacked of the same sudden violence used in opening of The Walking Dead: Season 1. But, overall, it was just trying too much to beat me over the head with its theme: “the wolf among us” in all of its literal and metaphorical meanings. I even found enjoyment in seeing the writers trying to negotiate the present conditions of various relationships in view of where they eventually go. ![]() Sure, I enjoyed seeing the world I knew in a game form. I didn’t hate it or anything like that, but it wasn’t quite what I wanted and I felt it was trying too hard to be something it wasn’t. I would have disliked it a great deal more had it been a re-imagining of something I knew, if I had to play through a story I’ve already read.īecause, that was the problem, actually. All of which, let me note, I thought were good things overall. My expectations of how this world worked and what I thought would probably happen in the story given what I know of the timeline were subverted. It was the characters I know, the places I’ve seen, but nothing was quite like I assumed it would be. I’m familiar with this world and these people.Ĭoming to The Wolf Among Us, then, was a strange experience. ![]() I’ve read 133 of the current 135 issues of the series. ![]() I may not have an encyclopedic knowledge of all of the characters, their interconnected mythologies, and the many relationships they’d had, and in some cases will have, but I know them. ![]()
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