IT: Welcome to Derry
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If you have any interest in the property episode one is worth a go. If you are just looking for something in the "good" category to watch I don't think this is it.
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Second episode is way worse. The primary antagonist switches from It to racism.
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Yeah, I wound up fast-forwarding through most of the second episode. Shame - the actual appearances of IT were interesting and fun; the birth bed and pickle jar scenes were solid.
However, every time there was a scene with a black adult talking to other adults, you know that scene will be another heavy-handed lecture about the scourge of racism against negroes in small-town Maine in the early 60s. It's the most tired, played-out slop imaginable; it adds nothing to the story and is completely skippable. It's a bad sign when I can ignore half of the run-time of a show and still feel like I didn't miss anything.
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I tried watching it last night and fell asleep. Could have been the show being shit or the gumbo coma, probably both.
My question is how the fuck is there another Hanlon family in Derry? Is it Mike's uncle? Wouldn't Mike be a teenager? Wouldn't his family go visit their relatives? Mike was also the only one who stayed in Derry running the library.
Also saw some article the other day saying that Dick Halloran is in the show, how the hell is that happening? Maybe the article was wrong but apparently King commented on it and said he approved. It's hard to tell them because so many of these stupid articles are AI written now.
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I finished the episode this morning with my coffee. Jesus it's bad. The military stuff is kind of interesting at least, and the pickle monster was hilarious. It's just like they threw everything out the window that they didn't want and what they did they threw it into a blender of retardedness. It's like the whole thing is just fanfiction generated by AI.
Did they already green light all three seasons? Also, I wonder which episode will be about the persecution of the gays, because you know that's gotta be on the docket.
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It's got energy along with creative and interesting scares. "Pennywise the Dancing Clown may be our answer to the Cold War" is a hell of a direction to go and I'm not going to bag on the show for doing something outside of the box but the race/racism subplot/subtext is holding the whole thing back. It's just poorly done. There's no authenticity. Enough time has gone by that we don't have creatives who grew up in the 1950s or 1960s writing about their experiences. We're getting a xerox of a xerox of a time several steps removed.
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Yeah, the military element is the one saving grace, but unfortunately we already know it's going to end in failure, which is the problem when people do these prequel type things to try to expand some stupid universe. I'll finish watching it just for the spectacle, much like I did with that stupid alien show, but I'm not going to hold my breath on it being the greatest television.
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What this really reminds me of is a licensed tie-in comic or pulp novel sequel. Dark Horse Presents The Thing Part 2. How good could that even be? Turns out it's pretty decent expanding on the material in imaginative ways. Aliens, Predator, Hellraiser, etc all have told more good stories with comics than they could ever hope to with motion pictures. With basically zero guardrails on the property given how cheap and lowbrow the medium is people have a lot of freedom in what they make. All kinds of ideas that would never, ever get the green light for one reason or another you can make work in a comic.
Except instead this is a major production on HBO with a big fucking budget and eight hour-long episodes to work with.
Except instead this is a major production on HBO with a big fucking budget and eight hour-long episodes to work with.
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Dark Horse really had some of the best comics and it's probably what I collected the most of as a kid because of the movies they were telling stories about were near and dear.
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