Ok: here’s higher quality content: Lichfield Cathedral, about half an hour ago. I also saw one of the peregrines, but I didn’t manage to get them in shot.

Man City such a good team - will be hard to beat in next season's Championship

In many ways, is the Drama not a reimagining of Carrie for Millennials?

Right, the paradox of a modern Carrie is she would just suffer unnoticed in home education, but the teachers would flag it.

Would refine this: when they notice, they don’t care!

I wasn’t making a comment on what Flanagan has done with the text either way. (He has in my view gone for a complete adaptation, I think its problems are about the length and open endeness rather than the specific choices)

This is part of why I don’t instinctively have the problem so many others seem to with doing a lot more *adaptation* to it than the de Palma version did. Bringing this particular story into the present is more than giving everyone cell phones and making the bucket drop with an Arduino.

Completely agree. You have to properly adapt it if you want to set it in the present.

But that doesn't make 'safeguarding, social services and anti-bullying policies' about 'teenage girl social mores'. Have you read 'Carrie'?

Yeah, the weird paradox is that 'the teachers would notice' has mostly been replaced with 'but social services and the neighbours wouldn't'.

Agree.

'Teenage girl social mores' have nothing to do with it and Martin is in his 20s.

The horrific stories are about people noticing things, ultimately. Whereas the whole point of Carrie is nobody really does.

You're both missing specific context, the horrific stories you describe are actually evidence *against* your point in any case.

Suddenly imagined a Princess-Bride-esque modern frame to the period piece with teen incredulous at how no-one intervened. (That said, my teen finds a lot of US school movies bizarre, for the exact same reason.)

You could tell a good story that was heavily inspired by asking yourself what would happen if the story of Carrie collided with modern standards of safeguarding, social services and anti-bullying policies, to name but a few reasons why the original story is now best told as a period piece.

This is 100 per cent correct in my view. Carrie is, as someone on here put it, ultimately a tragedy based on 'what if, on the absolute worst moment of the worst day of your awful life, someone handed you a fully loaded gun?' and for various reasons the crescendo leading up to that doesn't work now.