"Alarming is somewhat better than dull, I suppose, and it's definitely better than nothing." That I find the notion of some terrifying and (hopefully) fictional creature trying to kill me FAR less frightening than a person doing the same thing probably says a lot about me. At least a sharktopus, whatever that turns out to be, probably won't tie me to a chair in my underwear with an iron rail against my spine for days on end.

"Interesting, yes," I agree, and am slightly startle when a character is yanked off a boat by a rather huge tentacle. "Wow."