Television is a visual medium, so first of all: do they have visuals?
John McCrae's artwork has some strong panels, but the final frame, where Valdemar abruptly collapses into decay, reveals another of the pitfalls of adapting Poe's prose into a visual medium: images of rotting corpses are a staple of horror comics, and cannot compete with what we imagine when we read about "a nearly liquid mass of loathsome putridity".
In a visual medium, this type of narration pinches character, and not much is evident to establish the creativity or popularity of Pos-Neg.
Although film is a visual medium, you should think of its relationship with sound.
A good filmmaker will not take that for granted, even with the advantage of a visual medium, and Mr. Chandor more than fulfills Conrad's criterion of artistic achievement: "If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand — and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask".
Writers' lives are notoriously difficult to dramatize in a visual medium, even when the act of writing itself is conducted by means of a charmingly obsolete technology, like Goethe's furiously scratching pens or Thompson's clattery typewriter.
Despite the commitment to DAB, trials have been underway at Radio 1's Yalding House headquarters in central London, to make radio more of a visual medium, a project partly inspired by Parfitt's visit to Korea a couple of years ago.
It's just not a literary medium — it's a suggestion of a visual medium, and as such wildly inadequate".
The tendency of a visual medium such as film or TV is to show too much, when what the situation calls for is not quite enough.
The films featured the kinds of musical viruses and absurd user interfaces that are the desperate hallmarks of a visual medium trying to make a nonvisual story interesting.
