That’s...not really interesting to me. If that’s the best he can do, he might as well not exist becaue it doesn’t contribute to defeating IT, for which all these characters are given specific gifts, but King seemed to have forgotten to do nearly as much for Ben as he’s done for the other characters.

I could see an argument that the film does try to set him up as already determined to reject his Grandfather’s trade. But I see a lot of things, ranging from Patrick being coded as a sadistic sexual offender of his peers and younger kids, to this, to other things that I can see the edges of, but it all kinda gets…

*Slow head tilt*

The town will form a cancerous little bubble around it to shield these kids. They’ll pay for a lawyer, the jury will either find them not guilty, or continue to be ‘hung’ (Ironic phrasing) till the state just gives up. Seen it happen before.

You’d be surprised how much racism thrives in the LGBT community. So I wouldn’t use the “I’m a victim, so I empathize” card just yet. Butt his info is a bit of a game changer, maybe.

Keep them in prison forever. Not worth the risk to bring them back into society.

I’m sorry, but no. 14 is an adolescent. They have a fairly sturdy grasp of what life and death are. This is why they don’t routinely murder their peers. The only reason kids don’t kill each other (usually) is because they tend to lack the strength, planning, and force of will to do so. But a fourteen year old is more…

People have a right to know if a potential murderer is in their school district or neighborhood.

At least one of the boy’s lawyers (who will be funded by the community) will try to claim their client was just a bystandard. They’ll wax poetic about how the boy was a good member of the community, and just fell into the wrong crowd, and social pressure compelled him not to realize the whole situation was FUCKED UP!

They’re wonderful at being serial killers and mass shooters and bombers. They quarter the market for that.

If you’re doing this at 14 in such a calculated fashion, then you’re damaged goods and at the very least should be locked away from society for the rest of your life. This isn’t some kids rough housing. This is setting up a mechanism with the intent to kill. That takes coherent choices. You don’t just push someone,…

He’s biracial, so I’m gonna guess the guy is the brother of whichever parent is white or at least not black, and has interesting things to say about what he thinks of the marriage/child. Could be wrong though, but if it were up to me to guess based on evidence...

I think Andre keeps enough integrity in the work’s he’s done. He feels like a less experienced Deltoro at times. Same commitment to vision, if a bit less experienced and talented.

I think this is a case of being color blind without realizing how it can be interpreted. I would like to think that Andre would go for this vibe if Mike had been of a different race, since the idea has it’s own inherent string of logic. But yeah, it is a little bit unforunate that the POC get landed with this concept.…

It took a closer read, but yeah, he does mean he wants Mike to take a few “Trips”. I can understand the logic. The book tried this with them as kids, as a way to inform the children of IT’s origin in a way they couldn’t know about under normal circumstances. That was the entire point of the Smoke Hole chapter, and…

Ugh, I meant Ben. Ben. Not Henry. Ben. *Prepares for the Um Actually flood*

How so? It’s not the far of a leap from where he was in the book. The guy basically had no life, and was completely devoted to the book. They basically resorted to intoxication in the first part of the book to learn IT’s origins.

Why not?

Hey, it worked in the book. People were upset that Mike never got his chance to see IT’s origin in the movie with the Smoke Hole. Here’s a chance to make up for that. Mike’s character really, really got the shaft in this. I get the logic, since it was either lesson Mike or make Henry a total non-entity. But it’s still…

o.O Pretty sure they mean he’s so obsessed with his research he’s letting every other part of his life be second. I mean, it’s kinda true: He’s not just the only one who stayed, he’s the one who never really made anything of himself, nor got married. His entire life was already devoted to studying Derry and IT. It…