Poll of the Day > Although I'm a die hard Stephen King fan, Stranger Things > IT

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And it's not even close.

The producers really should have let The Duffer Brothers write / direct IT when they had the chance. They must be kicking themselves
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season 2 was really predictable tbh
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You aren't wrong

It makes sense though since the source material for IT is several decades old, Stranger Things itself is so good because it is derivative of so many successes that came before it, and the majority of quality writing and risk taking nowadays has moved away from film to television
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King frustrates me so much. His stories can start off great, and then his endings just suck complete ass IMO most of the time and make me feel like I wasted my night. I will probably never read another one of his books.

Really enjoyed the IT remake though.
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I usually love his endings. They're usually very tragic and a lot of time the characters get screwed but sometimes that's life.

And it usually comes as a big payoff because he spent a lot of times getting you to care about the characters. The only one I was really annoyed at was the ending of Cujo, where The baby ends up dying inside the heated car at the very last minute for NO REASON. Even the mother survives fine, and walks out of the car victorious, and then checks her baby at the last second and he's dead....
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FrozenBananas posted...

I usually love his endings. They're usually very tragic and a lot of time the characters get screwed but sometimes that's life.

And it usually comes as a big payoff because he spent a lot of times getting you to care about the characters. The only one I was really annoyed at was the ending of Cujo, where The baby ends up dying inside the heated car at the very last minute for NO REASON. Even the mother survives fine, and walks out of the car victorious, and then checks her baby at the last second and he's dead....

Okay. I forgot about Cujo. I did like that one a lot.
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FrozenBananas posted...

I usually love his endings. They're usually very tragic and a lot of time the characters get screwed but sometimes that's life.

And it usually comes as a big payoff because he spent a lot of times getting you to care about the characters. The only one I was really annoyed at was the ending of Cujo, where The baby ends up dying inside the heated car at the very last minute for NO REASON. Even the mother survives fine, and walks out of the car victorious, and then checks her baby at the last second and he's dead....

King actually claims that he has no memory whatsoever of writing that book

That is how many drugs he ate back then
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Yeah, King is famous for writing his novels super quickly. He apparently went on a crazy bender for a weekend and came out with no recollection of anything, and had an entire 300 page draft of Cujo sitting next to his typewriter lol

And in the 80's he was really bad. I also blame the really messy IT on cocain. Sure, it was a good story and had some great characters, but the structure was awful and all over the place. Luckily in the IT remake, they broke down the novel and separated it into two easy flowing sections (1. kids; 2. adults)
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FrozenBananas posted...

Sure, it was a good story and had some great characters, but the structure was awful and all over the place. Luckily in the IT remake, they broke down the novel and separated it into two easy flowing sections (1. kids; 2. adults)

That was kind of necessary for some of the callbacks, though, especially with such a massive book. It's easy to remember something that happened last chapter. Remembering something that happened 600 pages ago, not as easy.