The reviewer seems to think things are subtle that are obvious. She also suggests the show “hints” that Lloyd might have tried to eat Trask. The show didn’t “hint” a goddamn thing.  There are bites out of him. And it t’weren’t B’rer Rat.

In the book Starkey is still a dedicated officer. He does his heinous act of releasing the the SuperFlu under orders and stays at his post til the end, just like JK Simmons.  I agree that they don’t mention anything about that in the show so far, and clearly won’t.  You seem to be saying that they’re sweeping the acts…

Harold falls off his bike after some local weiners chase him just when people are starting to cough. He scratches up his face. He and Frannie leave when everyone is dead on September 14th. He still has those scratches on his face. I say the maximum time from the initial wounds to leaving is two weeks....and that’s…

There’s just no sense to anything. They reference Larry following Harold’s signs, and visiting Harold with Paydays while giving no context and telling not showing. Larry’s nightmare in the Holland Tunnel is reduced to a couple of minutes in a very well lit sewer, while Rita apparently strolled along out in the sun.…

No. Its all over the place. Also, the time frame seems fucked up.

Ugh. I just can’t.

He’s busy playing second fiddle in a shitty YA franchise.  Maybe ‘Detta.

Now there certainly can be an argument made for that point of view.

It’s true.  King has said several times that The Stand isn’t even close to his favourite book.   benificus is correct that often showrunners blow smoke up their own asses about whatever take they have decided on for a property.   Yes.  The Dark Tower series is King’s Lord of the Rings.

I think you apply a very narrow definition to the word hero . Walter White and Tony Soprano are the heroes of their shows. Blondie, who killed more than anyone else, was the hero of tGtB&tU. Tony Montana was the hero of Scarface. No. I understood the showrunner okay.

Marion is only pissy with Nerd Nazi because Indy pissed her off.  Without that, she might have just sold the medallion for a good price and gone on running her bar.  Reasonable people may disagree.

Uh, no. If you adapt a work you are, of course, free to change things around. But if the piece of shit loser character is the hero of a show about a literal Good vs Evil battle, and he’s professed to immediately being evil, then it’s not the same story. He can tell that story, but it’s not The Stand. The Skulk, maybe,…

The point of the story, and the structure, disproves that. If he’s building a mini series where Harold drives the plot, he’s telling a different story. Harold isn’t the protagonist of the book. In fact, his character (SPOILERS for a 40 year old book) ...is discarded well before the end of the action.  

This shows that the dude somehow doesn’t understand the work he is adapting.

Fear not.  The fence was electrified.  I think the opening is still great.  But one can’t apply much thought to some of it.

Well, you could come at it from a different perspective, if you use the visual evidence. Campion got the disease from his family, who are in the middle of the neighbourhood littered with air vent tubes from the facility. It sort of helps to explain why he’s the lone survivor of the little family. I think the…

I tend to agree that the show grew past what it promised in the beginning. A story in-Universe, still separate from the main action. At this point, we’ve connected 3 different SW properties to it. This is what the fans want, apparently.

It’s not very compelling, though, when that happens. If it’s all Deux Ex Machina all the way down, there’s no tension.

In that clip, alone, he’s JUST outside the residences. I think he runs across the block to get his family. The thing that I had either never noticed, or had forgotten, is they spend a lot of time setting up that the underground facility has air tubes jutting up all over the neighbourhood. It would have gotten out…

It might be that too — however.