Jan 20
I was chatting with a pal about this a while back, but it is somewhat of a shame that the Web is so underutilized in TMA for its non-plot-related horror (having as many episodes as The Dark, an entity that we know Jonny doesn't particularly care to write about) because having a mind controlling manipulative entity that can so easily play off of the Stranger and the Spiral is so much fun, however it's really awkward to try and integrate it because its inexplicably got spiders as its defining thing—which isn't bad inherently bad per se, though it is kinda tricky trying to write something and then going "and then there were SPIDERS!!!!"
#sp-rambles#Genuinely you could absolve spiders into being the Corruption and tbh it'd probably be a better move#Spiders are immediately recognizable as the Web and for an entity all about controlling things from the shadows it's#a bit hard to do that when any spider iconography is basically an air raid siren that EEEEYUP!! IT'S WEB SHIT!!!!#I dunno. The Web obviously is the big baddie but it doesn't really feel until S4 when it's cemented as such#and this it really kinda lacks the foundation that makes it actually feel like something manipulating from the shadows#Again it's hard to be that mean to the show when a good portion was being written week to week#But also like. idk. even on a first listen I had issues with the Web plotline in late S5#Primarily my issues are how underutilized it could've been. S4's centeal theme was about the bluring of lines#The blur of the Stranger and Spiral or of the Hunt and Flesh. Why not go full Weird and have Martin be a bit Web along with Lonely?#It's so goofy relistening and picking up on the extremely obvious Web!Martin stuff back when they were planning that#and then. yeah. never really followed through with#I dunno. The Web is such fertile territory for that specific type of psychological horror this show does with the Spiral that I love#It's a shame it's held back because everything related to it has to be SPIDERS!!!! EVERYTHING SPIDERS!!!#Edit: Eh sure fuck it I'll post this draft
