I was a huge childhood fan of the Dark is Rising, but I hadn't thought of them in years, until I was horrified to see the first television trailers for the upcoming movie. I went online to check out the theatrical trailer, and wasn't quite sure what to think: some of it felt right, more of it felt very wrong, but I harbored some hope that maybe it'd be right in spirit and the broad story, even if all the details are changed. Then I started reading the interviews, including the howler "oh god, I might have to do a sequel," and the claims that all the mythology has been removed (what exactly is left?). And then I started seeing more trailers, and hearing more about it. The last straw was when "The Dark is Rising" was recently taken off the title altogether, leaving me to think Susan Cooper saw an early screening, and, like Stephen King and the Lawnmower Man fiasco, she demanded a last-minute name change. I'll wait, hoping against hope that it gets great reviews (Bridge to Terebethia had some awful trailers, but it turned out okay), but the closer it gets to release, the more it looks like an impending train wreck.