Comment on so how do the kids defeat this clown, stephen?
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 days agoThe characters are young kids, like 13ish I think. The book ends with them getting lost in the sewer, and they somehow decide they have to have sex to escape. The 3 boys take turns on the 1 girl, with the sex described from the girls person. Then they leave the sewer.
mriswith@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A few notes:
They were 11
She describes it in way more detail than you’d ever want
It was supposed to be them going from innocent kids towards adulthood, so Pennywise would no longer want to eat them.
It was written towards the tail end of his over decade long alcohol and cocaine binge
pyre@lemmy.world 4 days ago
mriswith@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It gets worse.
Her dad is implied to want to abuse her, and she feels empowered after unbuckling one of their pants after they don’t want to do it, since she’s doing it “on her terms”. And he literally starts crying afterwards.
Understandably both the miniseries and movies ignore and skip that whole thing.
Taleya@aussie.zone 4 days ago
mriswith@lemmy.world 4 days ago
-Stephen King
The book even specified that the intent was for them to be together and unified as a group again, like they had to be for the fight. Just because they don’t spell out that their explicit intent was to escape him, doesn’t mean that isn’t the meaning.
Taleya@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Except pennywise eats adults. He just goes primarily after kids because it’s easier to drive them to terror (adult fears are more complex)
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
>takes a shitton of coke
>writes extremely detailed CP
>it’s really successful
>drugs and CP are bad btw
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 day ago
??
Profit