this sounds like horrible slop, but i will grant that the u.s. military finding out about what is effectively an eldritch horror, a godlike manifestation of fear itself, and thinking "yeah we can make this a weapon to fight communists," is a historically coherent response.
Yeah this is some raiders of the lost ark shit, I hope IT ends up melting their faces off
Awesome glad to know it sucks so I dont even have to waste a minute on it
They're trying to Stranger Things it.
The Soviets did the trail of tears
Libs unironically believe this about every ethnic group that was internally displaced in the USSR during WW2
Except in Stranger Things the Russians are actually the bad guys. There's the potential Pennywise turns on the people trying to control it, the US military, because that's usually how horror works.
Or course they could still fuck it up, too.
Yeah, in the later seasons. But the villain in the first season is in the US government. Stranger Things was always slop. But Season 1 was at least well made, not rabidly anti-communist, slop.
Now it's just a parody of itself. Grossly anti-communist and orientalist, tonally inconsistent, and just plain bad. That show's production has dragged on for so long, that the kids are all adults, now, and we're multiple nostalgia cycles away from giving a shit about the 80s anymore.
Oh right. It's been so long since I saw the first season I forgot about that lol.
Pennywise often transforms into the very things his victims fear most—since the monster feeds on fright
The US government captures Pennywise and sends him to Russia but the first person Pennywise meets is Gorbachev so he becomes Stalin and Russia goes communist again with Pennywise in charge and continues to take on the form of Stalin when the collective west shits itself.
Okay I'd watch this.
Immortal Stalin thanks to Pennywise until the global revolution is completed at which point Pennywise becomes Henry Kissinger. The communists lock him in an airtight box and sink it to the bottom of the ocean like a cursed Jumanji board game.
I don't know, this sucks but it doesn't suck much more than
spoilers for the book and CW for awful shit
a group of preteens having group sex inside a sewer pipe
not a good look for sewer guys
Yeah once I found out that King, as man in his what 30's, wrote a child orgy in one of his books I noped the fuck out. It's no wonder why The Shining (movie) Kubrick didn't want anything to really do with King.
don't worry, i'm sure he conveniently doesn't remember writing that part because of all the cocaine he was doing
And a whole part of Wizard & Glass I gotta skip when rereading dark tower, fuck king 🙄
The awful slop that is prestige TV and the awful slop that is Stephen King books, combined.
Come on, the book is a million times better than this. This is beyond idiotic.
The book has something way worse, as another comment noted. This is at least pretty funny.
I might get yelled at for this, but as weird as it is, I don't actually think the ending of the book is that bad in the context of the story.
Conceptually, it's kind of gross and bad but the real issue is how it is written, the detail given and the type of detail and characterization, especially the end.
I mean, it could have been just their first kiss, for god's sake
I have never read it because the two Stephen King books I have read, The Shining and The Green Mile, are two of the worst books I have ever read and I refuse to read any more from the author who could produce such garbage.
I loved him as a kid but reading his stuff as an adult is not easy... I remember thinking Pet Sematary was so fucking good and scary when I was around 10. But I just read it again last week and it does not hold up much at all. He’s just a straight up bad writer. Like I felt second hand embarrassment from his writing style at points. Funny how many point to his essay on writing as a good reference for someone trying to learn how to be an author. I think he sometimes comes up with good story ideas and that can be enough to sit through and finish the occasional one but it is 100% slop as the writing itself has zero artistic merit but he thinks he has the chops to go on for 500+ pages. I actually do kinda enjoy the shining from an entertainment perspective and it’s so far the only one I’ve liked that I’ve revisited as an adult but it’s still wicked far from an impressive piece of writing.
problematic shit aside, his writing just feels like he has no filter telling him whether a sentence is necessary or not. like he will first hint at something then immediately clarify it plainly. or he will "show, not tell. then tell anyway" about a character, something that was already mentioned in dialogue.
"Hapton Home, Maine, population 320. Only a few families still live here, ever since that fateful day. Yep, it's a small town alright. And a terrible thing happened here. Bobby Bingus still remembers that day in the 50s when he came home from school to see his mother at the house where he and his mother lived.
"Hi mom! Sure is nice to be a young boomer in the 50s. Feels like only good things will come to me and my friends, young kids the same age as me, ya know." said Bobby, hopeful about life and feeling young and full of life, even though things might not go the way he hoped.
"
" said his mom.
I read On Writing just recently and thought it was a very helpful and cogent book on the writing process, it gave me a lot of valuable insights for my own writing. I had to square how insightful the book was with the fact that it's King writing it, who's writing I've never cared for much. It has been awhile (decades) since I read any of his stuff, but I suspect that much written in On Writing is advice he probably doesn't strictly follow writing his own books. Still a good book nonetheless. King is an odd duck, that's for sure.
Hm I should definitely revisit it then. It’s totally possible for me to imagine a situation where he is able to write well on the writing process and provide good info while himself not being a writer I’d really give much credit. Stranger things have happened haha
Haha, yeah, it was surpising at how good of a book it was. I plan on rereading it sometime again, which I almost never reread books so that says something at least.
Human AI writer
Fueled by cocaine and problematic racial tropes
I still do love The Stand and Dark Tower
The Stand is probably the only book of his that I actually really like, even though it has plenty of problems of its own
they got poop all over the shit!
what in tarnation
It will remain true to the book though (they will include a child gangbang 
)
Derry
My brain automatically corrects this to Doire, but it turns out it's not the one in Ireland.
Jimmy Doire
a ha ha ha ha ha ha NO WAY DUDE
Great bit to take Stephen King’s incredibly unsubtle metaphor for child abuse and turn it into what sounds like marvel-brained slop. There’s no way AI wasn’t generating the scripts for this one.
I scan read "Pennywize" as "Paddington" and that increased my confusion dramatically.
leave politics outta my slop horror series 😤🤬
if a monster who feeds on fear would go anywhere, itd go to israel ofcourse, those zionists are so easily frightened, all IT has to do is look remotely arab and theyd shit their pants. I can already picture Pennywise in a paraglider over Tel Aviv, IT'd be so satiated by all the fearfull zionists, the semen extraction brigade would be so busy they won't know where to extract first
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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