you can, but it’s not necessarily an issue of caring, as much as it’s ignorance or inability to notice one’s own biases.

no, this was a change from the book and one that weakens the overall narrative. like you said, in the original flagg was a schemer who took advantage of mankind’s monumental fuckup, here he contributes to their destruction himself.

one of the few things the series has done pretty well is make it believable that harold could actually change.  the way he seemed genuinely shook by nadine killing teddy suggested that he was actually considering his choices and whether he could change.  While the themes certainly came up in the book, Harold spent so…

Yeah. part of it was the vibe of the time as crime was rampant in large cities, the original version of the stand came out a few years before “Escape from New York” for example. of course, that vibe also represents another symptom of white flight.

in fairness, a townie from a small east texas town in the 90's (or 80's depending on which version of the book) would likely be a bit ignorant of nonheteronormatic sexuality, plus the idea of lesbians or bi women being manhaters is a common belief even now and especially then.

also I think it does make sense, you see it in big tech, like where Elon musk is close to creating an indentured servitude system on mars, google’s abandonment of their “don’t be evil” ethos or facebook’s disregard to any ethical concerns.  Flagg’s kingdom was basically an empire of logicbros.

the weird thing is how they focus on some of the lesser known elements of the book, again, like the yankee stadium masturbation guy. it’s like they understand some of the obscure details, but not the actual point of the story.

If they were going to make this work, it would be to have new vegas be a type of bait and switch.  lure people in via the hedonism and freedom, then clamp down on everything once he has enough people.

exactly, it was about the inefficiency and freedom of self determination vs the focused, ordered slavery of totalitarianism. There’s also something to be said about the idea of entitlement and resentment vs emotional maturity, but in the book that only came up in regards to harold. IIRC in the book few people seemed…

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

some parts were decent, this version of Julie Lawry worked, glen’s starting to grow on me, deconstructing harold’s fantasy of him being on top in this new world worked, but so much else is just flimsy.

they changed “Hemingford Home” to a nursing home! Instead of a salt of the earth 100+ year old woman who is lives in a self sufficient pre modern homestead, she’s was just a poor woman left to die in a nursing home. it goes against the book’s original theme of how modern society’s technological advances were dehumanizi…

I’m sorry, but Franny, who’s supposed to be from ogunquit pronounced Orono “ore-on-oh!” the fuck, it’s “orno” or “ore-aw-no.”  I like to think King is fuming about this tbh.

if king was younger he should be working with whatever movie company wants the rights and try to create a stephen king cinematic universe leading up to a Dark tower 8+ season HBO series. he’s connected so many of his books together and everyone’s still trying to make cinematic universes, it’s right there for goodness…

king still could have given us more information about ralph, made him one of the characters we started with before civilization falls, instead of just throwing him in when they reach mother abigail’s.

right?  Ralph just kind of shows up and we don’t learn much about his past.  He’s just a good ol salt of the earth farm boy and that’s it.  there was no reason for him to really be involved in the main plot beyond plot.

i feel like the stephen weber version of “The Shining” shows why a straight up adaption doesn’t always work, especially with king. there’s a lot of boat to trim through and parts that either didn’t age well or just didn’t work well and should be re-examined. Plus a lot of times straight up adaptions feel stilted (The…

book 4 they wound up in a town in kansas after captain trips had destroyed everything. it was implied that this was due more to the smearing of reality as the beams weakened than it being a place that organically existed in mid-world (they were able to find newspapers for example, which would have biodegraded if the…

I always figured that Roland’s world was just the future of the world from the stand, at least originally. the references roland’s world has to things like 9/11 make that impossible, but that’s more of a consequence of the story’s extended production process.

one issue is that the free boulder stuff kind of drags. the flash backs allow it to be cut into more easily digestible portions rather than 2-4 solid episodes of nothing but boulder.