Yeah--I could see that as a teen. I felt the structure twisting to get the characters at moments of great import, and yet my emotions never rose to match the gravitas of those moments. I felt more like I was being pushed along on one of those "If it's Tuesday it must be Belgium" tours. But I remember standing in the kitchen and saying to my dad, who asked what I thought of it, "It's like that giant Howard Hughes plane that can't get off the ground." (At the time it was housed about three miles from where I lived, so we all knew about it.)