I don’t think Flagg even wanted to nuke Boulder in the book, he had pilots and war planes and that would’ve been enough. It’s been ~20 years since I’ve read the book, but I don’t think an A bomb was even mentioned until Trash brought it to Vegas.

IIRC, he had one of his pyromaniac episodes and destroyed the airbase Flagg was going to use, and then ran away and brought the nuke as kind of an apology.

• I also continue to not really understand the point of Trashcan Man here on the show.

I rewatched the 90s miniseries over the weekend, and it’s fine. I mean, it’s a bit cheesy and the special effects are terrible, but it adapts the story quite well. It’s much better than this schlock.

The apocalypse part of The Stand is my favorite thing among any of the King’s works I’ve read. We follow some of the main characters, everything seems normal and then there’s a line about someone coughing or sneezing and you know there’s no hope. Or a chapter where he describes how the virus got spread out from the…

I’ve read Tommyknockers something like 20 years ago, so my memory of it maybe hazy, but I think everyone who got captured eventually died because they couldn’t survive without whatever the spaceship was generating. The main guy flew away on the spaceship and it was strongly implied that he also died because he was…

Trashcan Man looks like someone even the weirdos in Mad Max universe would laugh at.

I’ve read a bunch of his 70s and 80s works, and the shorter his book is, the better the ending. Pet Cemetery - great, Salem’s Lot - good, his short stories - good. The longer books I’ve read all ended on mostly nothing, like he just didn’t know how to end the book and pulled some deus ex machina out of his ass. From…

Stu is definitely not that guy.

For example, Ludwig Prandtl, basically the father of modern aerodynamics, was pretty happy to work for the Nazi regime. Same with Wilhelm Nusselt, a guy whose contribution to heat transfer field is immeasurable. Any undergraduate mechanical engineering student will be familiar with these two names.

Yeah, it’s pretty bad ... Sometimes I wonder if the screenwriters actually read the book or just went to Wikipedia to get the synopsis.

The plague part is my favorite thing among all that I’ve read of King. It’s great, and this mini-series reduces it to a few people coughing, then everyone’s sick, then everyone’s dead and there are couple of weirdos in New York in Larry’ parts of the plot.

It’s like whoever wrote this adaptation took the book, put it in blender and then randomly glued together the shredded parts.

“Pop up menus have floated around on the screen for 5-10 minutes after they were needed.”

Yeah, the cops AI, or lack thereof, is hilarios. I thought that the magical homing mercenaries in Assassin's Creed Odyssey are annoying, but this is on another level.

I tried it on PS4 pro for a few hours and it was indeed borderline unplayable. It looked liked like shit and ran like shit, the controls were unresponsive and it crashed when I tried to change the graphical settings to try to make it look slightly less shit. It runs much better on my quite old PC with GeForce 1660Ti,…

I thought he was done with b-movies after what the RLM guys subjected him to last year.

It’s because the hacks who write Discovery wanted to rip off The Expanse and failed. This kind of situation would make sense in The Expanse universe, but not in Star Trek one.

At best, he is profoundly creepy throughout the entire scene, that’s the best case scenario here even if it indeed looks like he was tucking his shirt. He’s a lawyer and a politician, he should’ve realised something is fishy with the entire setup and left. Instead, he asks for a name and a number and follows the…

Yeah, this makes sense.