IT: Welcome to Derry

Not sure how it can be a prequel to IT if it begins in the 1960's, considering the story for the original novel began in the 1950's.

That said, if you read the book there is a ton of room for other IT stories: the trapper, the Black Spot, the shootout. But AFAIK, nothing happened in Derry in the 1960's.

Like, specifically the novel mentions something about a roughly 27 year cycle, where pretty much nothing happens in the interim.

Either way, I thought the movies failed to capture anything about what made the novel scary, instead relying on the cheapest kind of jump-scare bullshit. So im sure this series will be more of that.

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I'd be interested to see what they make of it. Bill Skarsgard is still Pennywise in this and he was the highlight of the films. I'm atleast interested in an episode or two unless its just painful. Im curious if they weave in The Mist with the military angle and seemingly showing it

Also apparently each of the 3 planned seasons is set in a different year: 1962, 1935 and 1908 each being based on the interlude chapters in It.

I like the book. The Fire at the Black Spot is a cool short story within it. I'm just tired with how often race relations are a major focus of current media. Remember the 60s! How could I not. It's always the 1960s. It's always the Civil Rights Movement. If it's not it's earlier and things are even worse.

I've probably mentioned it before... but...
Stephen King got me into reading for fun. And I mean real novels, not the kid stuff we read when learning to read. It started with The Stand and went until I had read most of his stuff, then I moved to Piers Anthony (The Xanth novels), other fantasy (D&D stuff mostly- Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman), and from there to including Sci-Fi. Basically, I credit Stephen King with convincing me that reading was cool. I also started including higher-level thinking stuff like Book of Five Rings and The Art of War.

But today... holy fuck has he cucked out. I haven't read any of his new stuff from the past... 10, maybe 15, years. Once it became apparent that pushing The Message was more important than the story he was trying to tell, I was done. Come to think of it, that's not entirely true. I did read The Institute because a friend suggested it was fucked up enough to give it a shot. But even that was like 5 years ago or something. I'll forever hold a place in my heart for some of the early stuff (The Stand, The Talisman, Eyes of the Dragon), but the man who wrote those stories is dead and gone.

Having the United States military involved in the paranormal has a very Stranger Things kinda vibe to it. HBO is frontrunning Netflix on this by a few weeks making it almost counter programming.

I’m definitely in the minority on that. IT was one of the few books I literally had to force myself to push through. Took me months to finish the book.