Glenn Weldon

In the book, both Piggy and Ralph are part of that.

And that has real moral repercussions.

This series goes out of its way to remove them from that process, to draw the lines even more starkly.

Simon becomes a much more point of view character than he is in the book in a more sustained way.

They introduce a homoerotic, maybe homosocial element that I'm not entirely sure they're in control of.

Because at this age, these kids are, you know, girls are awful.

And strong feelings for another boy are kind of to be expected.

And so I didn't really know what I was getting besides sensitive kids are sensitive.

You know what I mean?

You know, this idea that they're not really in control.

of any of their messages.

I was really interested in the scene where they find luggage, you know, they're all in a plane crash, right?

And they try on furs and they're kind of parading around each other with them.

And this is immediately after they kill the pig.

And there's this, trying to make this sort of strange connection about hyper-masculinization as a mask for maybe, you know, homoeroticism or homoeroticism.

They're opening all of these cans without any idea about how

They're going to serve what they find on the inside of it.

They either did it accidentally or they're not aware what to do with it either.

There's so many sequences where the boys are lying next to each other in bed and looking at each other, sometimes longingly, I think.

It's the one piece of nuance that's left in a very unsubtle adaptation.