This is the number two reason I’ve never been able to power through Wolves of the Calla, numerous exchanges like this:

I don’t like this Pennywise design. The terrifying thing about Curry’s Pennywise was that he wasn’t designed to be terrifying (apart from the general clown vibes, which weren’t so unsettling then as now, in part I believe BECAUSE Curry). He looked fun and friendly. It’s the serious faces that Curry would pull in that…

“Night Wolves” may be a more accurate translation of the patch on his vest.

It got an eyeroll from me as well, but one thing it did very effectively was show the completely different world the AI-ignorant inhabit in this show. Those two men are (presumably) brilliant programmers and are fussing over... nothing. Meanwhile, there are people with similar skillsets (Harold, Root, Claire...) who…

But he does say "one part IN 10^16." Just as "one part in three" is another way of saying "one third," so too -is- he fractionalizing here.

So he's actively trying to stop the disease in this version? I thought in the movie he was just trying to bring back an unmutated form of the virus, because change was impossible in that universe. I mean, I hate to buck at every variant, but I always saw that as a defining feature of 12 Monkeys.

I don't know how crucial the black-and-white was to the novel, as much as the surprising moment, halfway through, when you realize everything has been black-and-white. Since that can't be recreated graphically, I'm not too bummed about the decision to "colorize."

The Hotch-Potch alphabet was available in the gift store when I worked at Colonial Williamsburg. Probably still is, as are the Hotch-Potch ragdolls you can get. A few years ago, some of my lankier coworkers were asked to make a live-action version of the alphabet.

It is a little weird, and the only excuse is that that's Kevin McCarthy, who was a good friend of Vonnegut's ever since McCarthy (whom you might remember as the villain from UHF) played the lead in the Broadway premiere of Vonnegut's Happy Birthday, Wanda June.