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MASSIVE SPOILER in both BOOK and MINISERIES

posted 2 years ago by [deleted]
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Both basically say that because the story starts off with the Losers as adults getting phone calls giving them flashbacks to their childhoods and facing off against a killer shapeshifting clown creature, INDICATES THAT THE KIDS SURVIVED!!

So what is the point in watching the dull adult half with the clown if we already know what's going to happen?

At least the Muschietti movie adaptations did the right thing and tell the story fully chronologically, from childhood, before the Losers encounter Pennywise the Dancing Clown. It means that someone who has no knowledge of Stephen King's IT at all can watch the first movie and be in genuine suspense about whether or not all the kids survive...

...unlike the book and miniseries where they'll be given the biggest FU spoiler in horror story history from the start.

Don't you see how pointless the book and miniseries is in terms of its narrative structure now? Thank GOD the movie adaptation scriptwriters fixed this massive anomaly!

[–] acidraindrop (3055) 2 years ago

It wouldn't be the first time we have a story that alternates between past and present timelines to tell a story. Hill House, Oculus, and I think Yellowjackets. Their survival isn't part of the suspense there. It's about understanding what they went through, and how the trauma created the people that they ultimately become. Also, allows for parallels between past and present. The novel, IT, was basically about Derry. It was this massively convoluted hodgepodge. I personally don't like the novel, but it wasn't trying to be some sort of slasher or something where the suspense is in who lives or dies.

[–] LoveCatsHateDogs (1942) 2 years ago

Yeah except in 2017 the book and miniseries had already existed for almost 30 years so the only reasons that you'd be watching the 2017 movies and not know that the kids survive into adulthood anyway would be if you'd never read the book or seen the 1990 miniseries.