Fridge Brilliance
- A number of people noted how the new series has little resemblance to the original, to the point where it's more similar to pulp magazines, the successors and replacements for penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and other forms of short-fiction literature of the 19th century, than the ones it's named for. In other words, the series is following the literary elements of the cheap stories that were popular in their respective settings (penny dreadfuls = Victorian London, pulp magazines = 1930s America)
- This is also reflected in how the supernatural is portrayed: penny dreadfuls were mainly horror stories, while pulp magazines were popular tales involving detectives or Science Fiction. The first series has the monsters front and center, while the new series has them in the background.
