Talk:The House on Rupert Street/@comment-31362009-20170221233756

I really didn't like it. So it turned out to be "Stranger guy says kid should trust him and explicitly says he'll protect him. Innocent kid trusts him Guy takes kid to basement to get him into an oven and kill him". So basically weird guy lures kid into house and murders him. That isn't remarkable or original, and defeats the whole purpose of the "tour". If he could strangle his wife and this kid was this trusting what was the point? Tell the kid "Hey, poke your head in the oven!" then shove him in. Bam.

Originally it seemed it could be interesting, but instead it into a schizophrenic mess where one minute the guy is telling the kid to be real careful lest he fall and hurt himself, and the next he's burning him alive in a furnace while taunting him and calling him foul names. It was like for the first half the author decided that they were going to do something original and inventive, then got to the second, got bored, and decided "forget it, let's just have the creepy guy commit a grisly murder despite everything else leading up to it.".