The soundtrack really was the saving grace, but it’s been years since I’ve seen it. Surprised to hear it doesn’t hold up!

They deny it. 

Fascinating! That horses ever had toes is new information to me.

If I’m high and having a beer, I don’t necessarily want to watch every character I’ve just become connected to get beheaded, or fuck their sister, or fuck their beheaded sister or something. I should be sober for that.

I’m going to quit my job this week. It’s kind of terrifying while also being much needed for my mental health. I don’t even have a new job lined up, but if I don’t force myself to look by having no other options, I won’t budge.

While I miss your old username and envy your new one, I’m glad I can still easily identify that you are who I think you are.  

What are you looking for most? Funny? Relaxing? Several seasons you can dig your teeth into? If you can follow American Gods in your Friday state of mind, I don’t think Game of Thrones would be any more challenging, for the record.

Clapback Mailbag was my first introduction to The Root and even on weeks when I’m too overwhelmed at work to read all the articles and comments, I always return on Friday for Michael’s insightful, educational, often touching and almost always hilarious contribution to my favorite recurring series across the GMG.

I’ve not watched the movie, either.  I probably won’t get around to it ever, but it sounds like I won’t be missing anything great.  :)  

I actually enjoyed Cell quite a bit, but I think I’m in the far minority on that one. It was the first of the “new” Stephen King books I read after a weird and unintentional reading hiatus many years ago.

Agreed on both points about Gerald’s Game. I thought it would be a great little semi-horror flick, but with so many dreams and memories going on inside her head rather than in front of her, it couldn’t have the same feel.

We have a mortician who posts here, but I can’t recall which poster it is. He’s very funny and personable. In truth, I worked with pathologists rather than morticians and they were absolutely social rejects with oddball personalities. I could understand why they chose pathology instead of another practice because…

And her hair.  Seriously.  

Honestly, I think that’s our only way out at this point.  I’m all in.  

You can share some of mine and say they are yours! :) They are both a little squicky, tho, so be forewarned.

As others have mentioned, both Firestarter and The Dark Half were films, but neither were that memorable. Desperation was also adapted, and was possibly the worst of the three. It didn’t translate as well as I thought it might for such a scary novel.

I did see that link that a few people posted in this thread.  Reading Maise’s thoughts on it helped me remember she is an actress doing a job and they were very sensitive to what she was and was not comfortable with.  

It isn’t a similar situation, in that I hadn’t watched Emilia Clarke age from 11 to 22; that was the kicker for me. It didn’t ruin the episode and I wasn’t overly bothered even during the scene, but it struck both of us in a way that we laughed at our own discomfort.

Yikes. I had assumed wrong. I’m so uncomfortable with that being her real body. Even though she’s my favorite murder child and I’ve long wanted her and Gendry to end up together, I do still see her as a child. I guess I can stay thankful they did some kind of shading to hide her nipples.