Absolutely infuriating waste of a setup for the exploration of wealth/social power via supernatural ocean horror. You mean to tell me you’re going to put one poor girl in a cohort of wealthy teens on a LUXURY CRUISE SHIP, gaslight her constantly, and then do zero commentary on the role of money and hubris in how they all got here + why no one paid attention or cared + why not everyone met the same fate? Why even bother?!?

Side note realization I just had: centering a story around gaslighting (especially within a first person POV) generates a wild amount of redundancy in narrative. Because the desperate need to be believed means that the character will tell everyone, over and over and over and over, the exact same story. Meanwhile, their internal dialogue echoes with frustrated pleas for an audience. But, like, you’ve got an audience (me), and I’m tired, so please—if you’re going to include gaslighting as a major plot device, could you make it mean something?