Talk:Richard Pryor/@comment-4849011-20150201000523

Was this deleted from the site at one point? I ask because I read it and sometime later, when I tried to go back to comment on it, I couldn't find it (Don't ask why I didn't comment on it when I first read it because I honestly don't remember). In any case, I'm glad I'm not the only one with a low opinion of this. Whoever wrote it tried way too hard, especially at the end. If done differently this could have been a good psychological horror tale, a subtle yet effective tale channeling people's fear of aging, fear of disease, fear of losing oneself/one's mind, etc. Instead it's a confusing tale that tries too hard to be scary, or shocking, or whatever. Also, I don't like the part claiming that he had people beaten to death for taking pictures. Did this writer ever consider that Richard Pryor was an actual person whose surviving relatives would be offended by this?