To be fair: the flashback framework disappeared two episodes ago. I want to say, as a cynical basher of this show, that I’m very glad for you that you’re enjoying it. We could use more positivity around here. I’d be happy to reach detente, at least, with a recreation of one of my fave novels of all time

Olivia Colman is a treat, I tell you, a Treat!

I dont know the reason here.... but one possibility  would be that they shot it as if he'd just broken his leg (Harold doesnt even mention the tree branch) and then decided he wouldn't have died just from that and added the branch.

Kayla, in a note you mentioned in the strays: I agree that the whole walk to Vegas thing was rote and hard to be invested in for a book reader. I was just waiting  for the big fake gulley and there was no tension to the falling of Stu. Even had they made any of these characters, you know, characters, it would have had…

If they were going to try and do something meaningful with it, I’d be ok. As it is it’s just “look at this! Aren't we clever?" Bkecch 

For that last line alone  ..and it's allusion.  Take your star

Growth when you realize you got suckered, realize you made every wrong choice, when the right choice was right in front of your squash the whole time, tell your journal, and therefore just yourself, that you were MISLED, and realize you’re gonna die in a ditch for your stupidity....and then eat your own gun? That…

I agree that NONE of the characters are getting their due here. It’s not just the female characters. The whole thing is like a half assed high school play version of the story. The reviewer has a narrative that she’s pushing, a perspective she is coming from, and this is not uncommon. You should have been here when…

That was the nature of Harold’s non apology in the book too. In fact, in the book, he says several times that he was MISLED. He didn’t really take responsibility for it and it was far too late to ask anyone forgiveness.

I am re reading the (extended) book again because of this. I’ve just finished the part with the Kid. It adds nothing to the story. The Kid is just over the top. And it’s incredibly mean spirited and nasty. King has written that excising the Kid was the one bit he regretted in the original, but I don’t see why. It…

That was, indeed, the joke. Didn't think anyone else would get it, to be honest.

I thought Seinfeld was involved. The power outage one. Speaking of sitcoms, didn't Abed appear in the bg of some other sitcom at one point?

The one I liked was back in the 80s when my two fave PI shows crossed over doing a two parter. One for each show. Magnum/Simon&Simon. Also, didn't XFiles cross over with Picket Fences once?

Thinking about it, now that I’m home. It might be better to think of those immune as instead asymptomatic. They had the flu in them, like everybody else, but their bodies had no trouble producing antibodies to squash it. THEN they became immune. Frannie’s baby, then, would struggle, because it(I forget which sex) only…

Thats good of you to say. It's been fun discussing the show and book with you--less so watching the show itself

Vomitoria is latin for exits, isn't it? 

I agree that this is a great scene in the book. All this Stand talk has me re reading the book as well. Early stages for me, though. 

But that’s not exactly correct. He knew that the word on the paper and the word on the machine were the same. He did NOT know what the word was. When Rat Woman tells him it's Run, he still has to work out the definition of it.

I feel like they told him to go in the book. Under hypnosis.  They Inception-ed him.

But. How is it different? There have to be other cases where one immune person and one not immune person had a kid. Frannie’s kid was just born post apocalypse. Are you suggesting a sort of herd sympathetic immunity thing happened? I agree that this is beyond the page of King’s work. It’s all speculation. I honestly…