User blog comment:NedWolfkin/My Thoughts on Channel Zero's Cancelation/@comment-38454773-20190311081127

Oh yes, I heard about this show and that it was adapted into a television series on Syfy. I'll take your word for it that it was a bad adaptation, but I had a feeling in my gut it was going to be pretty lousy. For the record, I didn't watch it. Had no desire to.

I mean, come on, let's be real for a second. How are you going to make an entire season, let alone a show, from a creepy five-minute story floating around online (or at least it used to be)? Obviously they're going to add a bunch of rubbish to make it more "compelling" and extend the plot, but again, that's not why I enjoyed Candle Cove. It was so simple and to the point, yet it left me feeling more creeped out than any other popular Pasta I had read at the time.

This blog inspired me so I did a little reading up on the series. It turns out that the series got a lot of critical acclaim. It was nominated for numerous awards and what-not. And correct me if I'm wrong, but was each season based on a classic or otherwise Creepypasta? Hm. From a business standpoint, that's pretty smart. From an artistic one, bleh. I've already gone on and on before about Creepypasta originally existing for a fun thrill and how nowadays it's become more of an enterprise.

Going by what you said about how makers of the show tried to use Candle Cove as "clickbait", I'm not surprised. The original Pasta gave me the willies because I grew up a kid in front of the tv and computer and, as you can imagine, having unfettered access to such things will lead you to a ton of unnerving material. Something like Candle Cove seemed very believable and eerie.

I'm not getting my hopes up for a "good" adaptation of Creepypasta, since, lately, most have been utter flops. We've seen the Slender Man adaptations, which have been mostly hit-or-miss. I'm going to take a guess that Jeff the Killer is next.