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Maninhartsford t1_j9rlwul wrote

Reply to comment by PaulFThumpkins in ‘IT’ Prequel Series ‘Welcome To Derry’ Greenlit At HBO Max by DemiFiendRSA

I often see people ignoring 99.6 percent of the book and trying to use that one scene, you know the scene, to passive aggressively accuse King of being a pedophile.

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-FeistyRabbitSauce- t1_j9rq1z8 wrote

You can have zero discussion about Stephen King or any of his works on Reddit without that scene being prevalent in the thread. It's fucking rediculous - the accusations they throw his way most especially.

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Maninhartsford t1_j9rsdnc wrote

Same goes with LOST. You could be talking about a prop in season 2 and someone will bring up purgatory. But yeah it's absurd. "Horror writer writes disturbing scene" is NOT EVIDENCE OF ANYTHING

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TatteredCarcosa t1_j9s28yi wrote

Even though Purgatory is not what the ending was about...

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Maninhartsford t1_j9s9gqe wrote

Yes, you're right, of course, but that's what people always want to talk about. It's an irritatingly persistent rumor, and remarkable how much nobody remembers the character explicitly saying the island was real.

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05110909 t1_j9tvej6 wrote

I'm pretty confident that most of the people who say that have never actually watched the show. Because I refuse to believe someone could be dumb enough to believe it when an important character virtually looks directly into the camera to say "Everything that happened on the Island really happened."

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ringobob t1_j9u0yor wrote

Well, sorta - the writers confused the issue by making purgatory relevant to the last season when it wasn't before. Had they not done that, a lot fewer people would be confused.

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TatteredCarcosa t1_j9udnpu wrote

Eh, if you have watched 6 seasons of a show and you can't be bothered to actually pay attention to the dialog in the last episode that is on you.

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ringobob t1_j9u0n8p wrote

Most people who talk about it likely haven't read it. Even the scene, let alone the entire book.

It's a weird scene, don't get me wrong. It's used as a metaphor for transitioning from childhood to the next stage of life, in order to separate them from IT's influence. Probably better ways to have done that, but it was part of Bev's story, to be thinking along those lines, and that fits.

The entire end of the book goes so far off the deep end, that honestly this scene doesn't even really stand out.

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reece1495 t1_j9u8g24 wrote

And ironically now it’s a part of this thread

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PM_ME_CAKE t1_j9u848a wrote

Just imagine if people actually read through a full series like The Dark Tower. That scene is sure, a topic, but if they remotely knew Susannah's arc they'd be flying.

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Ckck96 t1_j9vtdga wrote

That annoys me so much. It’s such a good read, and every time it comes up in conversation, people reduce it to a misconception of what amount to like a page or two in the book.

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