Oh no!
The Todash Darkness is back--and, wait, what are those strange--glittering lights in the
distance, floating away in the bleak, dismal nothingness of the eternal void.
They’re singing a strange song--and, wait, what’s that?
A red balloon?
Oh, of course--it’s The Deadlights--Stephen King’s most terrifying cosmic creation--returning
once again to take a Pennywise-sized chunk out of us all, but only if we’re unfortunate
enough to reside in the hometown of misfortune itself, Derry, Maine.
Well, it seems that you guys had a lot to say about the hypothetical implications of
The Deadlights, so let’s take a deeper look-see.
Hello internet--what’s going on, and once again welcome back to the most inquisitive
channel on YouTube--Life’s Biggest Questions.
As per usual, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice, as today, we curiously revisit the
question, in--What If The Deadlights Were Real--Part 2.
Roll the clip.
For the curious amongst you--of course, that was from the awesome two-part TV movie, 1990’s
IT--starring the great Tim Curry as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and--you know, Bill Skarsgaard
did a great job, but the juries still out as to who can compete with that kind of eternal
nineties creepiness.
Hint.
Tim Curry is untouchable.
The point is though, as you may already know--The Deadlights in question are in fact a cosmic
creation that can take many forms--and if you’d like to sink your teeth into the inner
workings of those many terrifying forms--now is probably high time that you go and check
out Part One to this video, where we detail just exactly what The Deadlights are.
But--for the sake of clarity--let’s quickly detail just exactly what’s involved here.
For those of you that don’t know, The Deadlights are the true, cosmic form of Stephen King’s
1986 literary creation, Pennywise the Dancing Clown--the sewer dwelling, red-balloon floating,
paper boat stealing monstrosity that feasts on children every 27 years deep in the bowels
of the New England town of Derry, Maine.
You see, as those events unfold--it is revealed that Pennywise the Clown isn’t just the
manifestation of a children’s nightmare--but something else entirely--an ancient cosmic
force, that originates from the grim, dark nothingness in the void of space--the Macroverse,
the place that exists between the many worlds that unite Stephen King’s universe.
Essentially--it kind of goes without saying, but The Deadlights are fear itself--and luckily
for you guys, you seemed to have some pretty awesome things to say about this video in
particular.
So let’s take a look!
To begin, Alchemy Siega says--The most primal emotion is Fear, and if the Deadlights are
the embodiment of fear, then maybe it *is* real.
Maybe it *is* real--Alchemy Siega--really, I’m with you here.
You see, we touched on it briefly in Part One--but from a technical perspective, in
the infinite possibilities of our universe--and with everything we *dont* know about the nature
of existence--who’s to say that a cosmic force, similar to The Deadlights--isn’t
real already?
Obviously, the likelihood of the literal Deadlights existing, as per Stephen King’s exact description--is
a kind of out there concept, but hey, if we agree that anything is possible, by that definition
I’m certainly not ruling it out.
The thing is though--what we also have to address here is the notion that emotion would
have to be from a palatable, quantifiable source.
If all we are as humans is the demonstration of energy creating matter, then why can’t
we create a ball of fear?
Or a cube of envy?
Obviously, the answer is simple.
Fear and envy are intangible.
They cannot be created.
They are human constructs to illustrate the chemical balance or imbalance of hormones
in the body, to administer a feeling, or the illusion of a feeling.
Fear has kept us in check as a species for millenia--warning us not to stray into the
dark forest, or to sleep with our feet too far off the bed.
It’s a healthy thing, that has forced us to survive--but it is our bodies way of administering
the correct sensations or ultimate cessations and inform our consciousness how to react.
It’s not entirely something that we can measure, like oxygen--or hydrogen--and so,
just as we are creatures of carbon--The Deadlights existing as a chemical compound is pretty
damn impossible.
But hold on a minute, didn’t we just say that fear is caused by a chemical balance
or imbalance?
Because, in actual fact--we can measure fear.
It just takes a few ingredients.
Epinephrine, cortisol--oxytocin--all of these are released in the brain to create fear,
and all they are, are a combination of hydrogen, oxygen--and other such elements.
What if, somewhere in the infinite void--a cosmic chemical soup is boiling up of exactly
those same elements.
Fear.
The Deadlights.
Ooo, now that’s a thought.
Next up, Fabian Gonzalez says--What If Pennywise himself stared at the deadlights?
Ahh.
I was waiting for this one--and I also noticed a few other people trying to pull the same
old trick, but--come on guys, it’s simple.
And also, I’m slightly suspicious that this thought is a product of you guys just watching
the movie and not reading the book.
Hint: the book’s great, and you should read it.
And also, for a human to stare into the deadlights--it does indeed drive them to madness.
It’s an eternal eldritch form of Red Energy, and it turns a mortals mind to mush.
In fact, the only person to survive looking at the Deadlights is Bill Denbrough’s Wife,
Audra--and I guess that was pure blind luck.
Oh, and Beverly Marsh too in the films--but she slipped into a coma.
For Pennywise to stare at The Deadlights--I.E--at himself, it would just be like looking in
the mirror.
He’d probably smile, too.
Next up, Kaine bolts says--He called pennywise the physical form of the deadlights.
Pennywise is just used to lure kids, and IT’s favorite form.
It’s nothing more than just a form and not the deadlights.
Errrmmmm.
I’m gonna level with you Kaine Bolts, I kind of think you answered your own question
here.
Pennywise is the creatures favourite form, certainly.
And yeah, he wears it to scare the bejeezus out of The Losers Club and the rest of town--because
clowns are freakin’ terrifying.
But IT also takes many other forms in the novel--32 to be precise.
It’s truest form is said to be a giant, female spider--but we can’t comprehend the
extent of it, because of our fragile human minds.
And you know why we can’t comprehend it?
Because IT *is* The Deadlights.
Also, IT was pregnant and breeding more--so yeah, great.
Rose Smith says--The Deadlights are to King’s universe as certain Old Ones were to Lovecraft:
the sight of it will drive you mad.
Thank you Rose Smith, and cheers for chiming right on time to support my last point--hey,
it’s almost as if someone compiled these comments deliberately, right?
But yeah--the point is exactly the same.
Stephen King is a huge fan of H.P Lovecraft, the creator of Cthulhu and his entire Yog-Sothory
of giant, tentacular alien gods.
As well as being directly inspired by some of Lovecraft’s creations--The Deadlights
are pretty much the embodiment of all things cosmic horror.
Unknowable origin.
Check.
Drives the human mind to madness at the sight of it.
Check.
Has a thousand sets of razor sharp teeth and enjoys eating people?
Double check.
And finally, Joshua Abadano says--If the Deadlights were real, spawns of the Macroverse would
be constantly reeking havoc on life on Earth.
Also, somewhere on Earth, most likely the Bennington Triangle, lives a part of the Deadlights
that awake every 27 years to consume as many living beings as it can.
Woah.
Joshua Abadano.
That got real real fast.
Erm, yeah--sure.
It certainly goes without saying, but if The Deadlights were real--then so too would the
rest of the infinite cosmic horrors of The Macroverse be.
Also, if you’ve read King’s 1980 novella, The Mist, or seen the 2007 movie of the same
name by Frank Darabont--then you’ll know just exactly how that would play out.
Yeah, if spawns of the Macroverse were constantly reeking havoc on Earth--sooner or later, we’d
all be trapped in a supermarket with a crazy, Bible clutching Mrs Carmody waving a pistol
in the air trying to sacrifice the townsfolk.
Yeah, exactly--as soon as you add Cosmic Horror in the mix--sooner or later someones gonna
get sacrificed.
It goes without saying.
Well, there we have it guys--our revist to our previous question, What If The Deadlights
Were Real.
Hey, these repeat videos are getting pretty fun actually--and it’s always an interesting
experiment to go through some of your more creative comments and discuss them a little
more in depth.
Why don’t you let us know what you guys think down in the comment section below.
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