Say Harold and decided to let go of all of his hurt and not join Nadine and Flagg?
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Then Harold and his new girl could die happily in each other's arms! But that would sure be a bummer to have the whole rest of the world wiped out by Flagg, especially since we'd be losing Stu and Tom.
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Say Harold and decided to let go of all of his hurt and not join Nadine and Flagg?Short answer: in that case the Free Zone would likely have been wiped out by Flagg. share
There was a passage in the book where Harold realized that Flagg would have killed him in Boulder if he had not joined him. I think it is when he is out hunting for Mother Abigail.
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You are correct here. Harold had every reason to think that he would be accepted in Vegas and rewarded for what he had done in Boulder. He thought that when he got there, he would be welcomed with open arms, and it wasn't until Nadine told him of the arrangement that she had made with Flagg, that he realized that he had been tricked. share
Jinx I think your confused. Harold never realizes that, but he does realize that he could've lead a better life. Nadine's thoughts or pov in the book is that Flagg was going to kill him in Las Vegas. She pleaded with him that he would fall by the road side instead and that is why Harold goes off the road.
Harold was so insecure, even when the guys began calling him "Hawk," he viewed the nickname with suspicion. Hypothetically, if he could've avoided Flagg altogether, I think he would've turned out just fine. He'd lost weight and actually began to fit in.
But it's moot, because Flagg had chosen him, and he was doomed.
I intend to live forever.
So far, so good.
Judging from my own experience, (and this was alluded to in the book as well), he was suspicious if someone were nice to him, particularly if that same person had been less than friendly to him on other occasions. In his experience, (almost always one of rejection) I honestly think that he did not know how to cope with acceptance.
Harold was so insecure, even when the guys began calling him "Hawk," he viewed the nickname with suspicion. Hypothetically, if he could've avoided Flagg altogether, I think he would've turned out just fine. He'd lost weight and actually began to fit in.
But it's moot, because Flagg had chosen him, and he was doomed.
In the book, I found Harold to be probably the single most fascinating character. Not my favorite character (that would be Nick), but the most complex and interesting. It's a shame they reduced him to a walking stereotype in the series. Like Nicholson's Jack Torrance in The Shining, I had no sense of internal struggle from Harold as he was portrayed in the miniseries. He had no moment of realization, other than the thrown-in "I was misled" note, which felt kind of cheap and meaningless without the history or his internal dialogue from the book. Series Harold had never had a moment of hesitation in making the decisions he did, or that excellent moment of realization that his life could have turned out very differently had he just let go of his anger and resentment. When Harold met his end in the book I felt a little bad for him, despite the fact that he killed Nick, Sue and the others. In the series I was totally unmoved.
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
i think it would have been cool if harold had made it to vegas and started to work for flagg, only to eventually redeem himself in some way leading to flaggs downfall
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