Loved the story.
Perfect reading. Even though this story isn't scary like I want my PsPods to be, it was one of my favorites. But I have read Frankenstein several times, so maybe that's the difference.
I don't remember eyes being a particularly potent theme in Frankenstein, but I did think they worked in this story. It made sense to me that The Bride would be obsessed with eyes since hers were most likely dull and horrible, and everyone else's were white and clear. Though I agree that they didn't seem to be what the story was really about, so maybe the title wasn't the best.
I did find some references to eyes from the Frankenstein novel:
When The Monster first wakes up:
It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs...His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
Dr. Frank flees is creation in horror. Later, he wakes up to find it in his bedroom:
I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch— the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me.
Throughout the book The Monster obsesses about how horrible he looks and how he is shunned by society and his own creator. It made sense to me that his wife would feel the same way.
This story put me in a very rich, strange, disturbing world. Patchwork bodies that don't rot, a soulless God, human sacrifice, whatever the hell Copy was, ugly sex, a wife who is also a sister ("you have his eyes"). So many SF and horror stories I read try to explain too much. Maybe the writer is impressed with the reasons why everything happens and he wants to tell us. But this story left much of the detail in shadow, and I find myself wondering what's back there.
Great story, great reading