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Anon reads horror (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 44 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I went into IT with an open mind and was prepared for that scene. Kept thinking that it probably made a lot of sense since many King fans had said it had a very beautiful reason behind it.

Then I get to it. And it's just stupid. Genuinely stupid.

The kids are scared of forgetting each other, because that is the power of IT. It makes people forget as they grow up.

So they want to do something meaningful to remember each other. And Bev is like: y'all can fuck me.

And I am over here like: how are the boys supposed to remember each other if they only fuck you? If that scene was supposed to make a lick of sense, the kids would have an orgy with each other and not just the boys lining up to have sex with one girl.

I can go along with weird and uncomfortable ideas in books if they make sense. In this case, it made no sense. But people either seem to defend it because they just go along with the premise or they defend King because he was high or some shit.

I'm not defending bad storytelling. IT has a lot of cool concepts in it and no one can write about small communities like King can, but I'm not gonna pretend like the kids having sex is some clever narrative device. It's very, very stupid.

I also think the Turtle is goofy af.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 minute ago* (last edited 45 seconds ago)

Oddly enough, I put that BS down far before the halfway point, back in the day, and never picked it up again.

Thankfully, the only knowledge I have of this King-style WTF Deluxe?

Is vicariously. Phew. 😬

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 27 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Tbh if my first time was a train of my bros all with the same chick, i'd probably remember them for a very long time even without a proper orgy. Though i'd probably remember them all for helping to defeat an eldritch sewer fiend anyways.

Still sounds like a stupid thing to put in a horror story about teenagers though..

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

What makes it bad is they're not teenagers. They're 11 year olds.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

"How could we remeber each other forever?"

"Oh I know, lets all do a childhood trauma!"

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

😑 i thought they were like 14 or something....it makes even less sense now