Too late to back out, but it's going exactly where we feared it would. We hadn't read the book but just heard the rumblings of the direction of the thing.


>Some ephemeral, tear-drinking demon that devours families
>whole and leaves a field of decay in its wake? Cool, ripe for
>metaphor and exploration and fear.
>
>Some bumbling guy that cannibalizes random strangers, howls
>like a wolf and attempts to take a kid from a heavily
>populated area?
>
>For all the talk about how not-a-human Holly and Ralph had
>these past two episodes, they sure did a lot to undermine that
>by finally giving it a physical form and having it make very
>human mistakes and be afraid of very human problems.
>
>At this point I can't back out, but this monster is officially
>a plot device that doubles a bit as a SVU monster of the week
>and I'm not sure Price & Co. can pull me back from that. I
>still love everything else, but I'm pretty comfortable
>throwing El Cuco in the scrapheap of also-ran fantasy
>villains/threats.