I have a 100 year old house with wainscoting. I thought it was original. Then we redid the bathroom and discovered that it covered some hilarious layers of wallpaper - one was bright orange faux tiles.

It's soft and showed the world that you could afford a vacuum.

I don’t understand carpet - as in ‘just don’t get it’. It’s literally the filthiest thing in a home; there’s no getting away from it. It’s like a dirty diaper, especially if you have pets (and kids).

There’s a whole pop culture thing where people who don’t want to answer questions about their jobs (sex workers, but also anyone) joke about saying they’re accountants, because they think no one outside of that field will ask questions or kniw anythubg about it. It just proves that they’re not as clever as they think…

If someone truly believed that “anyone” could do that based on a show on HGTV...that’s some Grade A stupidity right there. No one is forcing anyone to watch HGTV. C’mon man.

The very funny think about wood floors is it’s usually pretty easy to tell if the floors under a carpet are going to be wood or ply wood just by how they feel under your feet and the height of the carpet. It’s also very easy to pull up a corner to see beforehand. House Hunters single handedly led to a huge number of…

I’ll die on the hill that The Dead Zone is one of the few genuinely perfect Stephen King endings.
No real deus ex machina and it’s a perfectly logical, if tragic, conclusion to the story he was trying to tell (and really, given the nature of the story, a tragic ending is fitting.)

The only thing I’d argue as a demerit…

See, that’s the thing, though. They are told from the moment they meet Mother Abigail that they are going to have to save the world. That God wants them to risk their lives to save everyone else from Flagg. They are the people who are going to do it.

That’s always a problem with casting James Marsden as anything. Even though the guy is 47 (!) and they actually cast that relationship age-appropriate to the book, Marsden looks like he’s about 28 years old, which completely ruins the attempt to cast him as a 45-50 year old man.

Yeah, they aren’t focusing much at all on the fact that Harold’s actually pretty capable of navigating the apocalypse. The way they changed the roadblock shootout is a case in point. I think steering away from the amount of detail King included there probably made sense, but in the book Harold’s not humiliated or…

Watched this with my wife who has never read the book or seen a previous adaptation. She kept asking me which parts were flashbacks and which were the present, which is a clear sign this “innovative” narrative device suuuuuucks.

the weirdest thing about the show is how they’re rushing through the past so fast to get nowhere in particular.

Someone described this show as flipping through a photo album of vacation pictures 20 years later. A lot of “oh yeah, I remember that” and some feeling of fond nostalgia, but absolutely no context as to why you feel that way, and pretty boring for people who weren’t on that vacation.

King has virtually nothing to do with anything of his on that list. He's well known to let others have their go at his stuff without his influence. Unfortunately not a great track record for many of his projects.

In my last dying hours on captain Tripp-ravaged Earth I’m going to go break into the newspaper factory fire up the printing presses and publish the last headline anyone will ever read! at which point I will ask the question we’re all wondering as the world falls apart horrifically in a matter of moments:

I did ponder at the time I saw Reign of Fire as to who had time to pick up a copy even if this was free this never mind write, print and distribute this during a full blown apocalypse.

Agreed that the car thing is ridiculous. Even if you ARE suddenly sick with TubeNeck, the first thing you’ll do is pull over. People aren’t dying just as a bolt out of the blue behind the wheel of their car...

O/T, as I haven’t watched it yet (waiting for the finale before I get my free trial), but you bring up a good point about the Nick flashback; is anyone else tired of the trope of streets littered with cars during a catastrophic pandemic?

With all the things they’ve dropped, changed, this whole massive fuck up with non-linear flashbacks telling the story, etc...they still fucking keep “Baby, Can You Dig Your Man”. 

I don’t know why they though a chronological, linear structure was a bad thing. I really, really don’t. To me, it’s imperative to the Stand to understand how the characters came to the decisions they did. That requires watching them go.