Martin HAS said the ending he has planned is bittersweet.

…yes?

Pre-teen. They're all eleven years old in the book.

That's been my assumption.

You left out Ben Burtt and Marcia Lucas.

Very true.

Remember that when Walt and Jesse kidnap him in his first appearance, the first thing he does when they let him out of the trunk was to claim they got the wrong guy and that they wanted Ignacio — that's Nacho.

Nothing quite beats the taste sensation when maple syrup *smack!* collides with ham.

Up to and maybe even the episode after, the funeral and wake for the killer.

That one scene clues us in to the fact that the Log Lady's husband's spirit is probably trapped in the log and who she's been talking to all these years… or at the very least he's one of the lumberjacks we see in the Convenience Store in FWWM and the log serves as a conduit to her communicating with him.

"James is the worst" is a rallying cry whenever I host marathon rewatchings.

I always assumed the point WAS to make it a movie that had the unreal quality of a '40s film. I remember reading the book prior to the film's release and thinking it wasn't as over the top as the film depicted.

Bancroft couldn't go — she was doing that show on Broadway and there was a performance that night.

Yup! And I'm wrong about It appearing as his dad — It appears as a mummy in a clownsuit, so not *quite* Pennywise.

It's Ben, and he sees Pennywise standing on the frozen river as he (Ben) crosses a bridge — Pennywise is holding balloons that are drifting towards Ben against the wind. Pennywise lets the balloons go and they drift towards Ben, then Pennywise-as-the-corpse-of-Ben's-dead-father climbs over the bridge towards him. It's…

We've seen Theon's floppy wiener twice before Ramsey cut it off. Once with Ros in Winterfell in season one and once with the ship captain's daughter before disembarking at Pyke in season two.

The vulture's song, "We're Your Friends". The little girl fetching water at the end, "'Til I'm Grown". "Colonel Hathi's March". Kaa's song, "Trust In Me". And, finally, of course, King Louis' song "I Wanna Be Like You".

Sadly, no. The only vultures seen do not speak. I was hoping they'd get one of the tribute bands out there, like The Fab Four, or Rain, to do them. :D

And Adam Driver as Gilligan.

And a lot of people love dogs. More than they love people.