#... and i guess i should check out the moffatt one. just to laugh at it

[wolpatinga]

idk. dr cordelier is basically just the original. but it is definitely from utterson's perspective. it's 'what the fuck is wrong with jekyll' and then the horror of realizing that your friend has no morals. and its taking hyde at his worst

there's no mercy for hyde, i guess. in the original, in jekyll's confession, there's a sort of loving tone about it, jekyll pouring over how he tried to protect hyde and give him an environment where he could finally exist freely. and i really like that part of the story

dr cordelier doesn't love joly. or severin. or opale. (or maybe i just don't speak french). jekyll in the 1968 version, he's full of love for his friends, and for hyde, and that's why i'm willing to overlook the deviancies

if your jekyll wouldn't write all those pitiful letters to lanyon and utterson, it's not jekyll. if your hyde wouldn't civilly breakfast with enfield, it's not hyde. but also a jekyll that isn't wholly loving, at least in a fatherly way, towards hyde isn't jekyll and a hyde that wouldn't beat a man to death for the crime of asking for directions isn't hyde

and imo the 1968 version is better at giving the doctor from the novel, and its devlin is just as good as joly at being utterson

but in terms of "jekyll isn't even the main character", dr cordelier gets that spot on, and apart from the MazM game, i don't know of any other adaptation that does that so well