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I watched this last night and was impressed with it. I haven't read the book it is based on,but the length of it seems suited to the miniseries format. I actually like that they are releasing one episode a week because it allows time to talk about it with people vs having to hide until you shotgun the whole series and then play catching with commentary.

Loved the book, nice! Thanks for the heads up Chuk.

Maester Chuk_sl said:

Np. Was surprised when I saw the ad during Better Call Saul.

Also from that trailer I think the starting timeline is different from the book by a few years. Isn't it 57 or 58 during pennywise's feeding?

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In the novel he goes back to '58 and basically has 5 years to prepare to stop the assassination. Not sure they can do a novel of that size and depth justice in 9 episodes.

I'm guessing they explain it later, but

Maester Chuk_sl said:

i read the book back in 2011 so my memory is a lil hazy on every detail, but the way i remember it

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the diner owner dude went back first and did a whole bunch of research on the events, but he still wasnt sure if in fact it was oswald and not somebody in a "conspiracy" so since he was dying he entrusted his research and secret of time travel to the hero. that research told him what he needed to do and events he needed to confirm and then how he needed to kill oswald. also there i8s a "something" that is trying to stop him from changing fixed points in time so its very difficult for him to just cap oswald and come back home.

there is more but thats all i can remember right this second. when i watch the show the other little details will come back.

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This is pretty correct

So far the show is ok. They have changed some things around from what I remember (He gets there in 57-58 instead of 60, he doesn't go straight to Dallas right away, etc.). I'm not the biggest fan of James Franco but it seems like they got most of the general idea from the book. One more thing


I thought the book was really good, one of King's better ones.

Ambiturner_sl said:

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I understand the part where he thinks Oswald might not have done it, or that someone else may have put him up to it. But it's explained early on that if he comes back to today and then goes back to the 60s again, everything happened the first time is erased. So why not kill Oswald, come back to today to see if it worked and if didn't go back and forth to erase you ever killing Oswald.

Basically the time travel version of save scumming

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I'm disappointed they didn't use the grandfather paradox joke:

"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"

He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

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I loved the simplicity of that and can really picture Chris Cooper delivering the line.

Watched the second episode last night. That is a turn I was not expecting, although it should have been obvious that something of that nature was going to occur.

Anyone still watching this? I was a bit preoccupied but wasn't much for this last episode.. I'll rewatch it though. First few episodes were good.

I'm really enjoying it. Surprised it's not discussed very much

Ambiturner_sl said:

I'm really enjoying it. Surprised it's not discussed very much

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Same. Some pretty serious changes form the book, but doesn't ruin it.

I was really into it after the first couple episodes. The last couple have felt a little flat to me, though. The "clothespin" thing came out of nowhere and confused me. Hoping the second half of the season gets back on track.

I have been enjoying this for the most part. but they seem to be getting side tracked a lot. a little less of the love story/husband would be nice. I also was expecting him to go back to his time and see some changes by now then start over again when he sees he fucked stuff up. I was looking forward to the outcome of him saving the life of that guy's family and killing his dad. like perhaps it turns out the guy's mom was a psycho and fucked him up and he ended up exactly the same, or he turns out to be very smart/normal and is the principal of the school.. or whatever. but instead we are stuck watching the main dude romance some chick, and the useless stuff with her ex.

moar time travel, less BS.

Really liking this. They have lots of changes to the book, but they keep the core, which to me is the relationship with Sadie and the struggle to deal with the assassination. Great show.