Welcome back to the hybrid network everybody and another discussion on Stephen King's larger universe of books today focusing again on it
we've gone over a lot from the initial book going over character Arcs explaining the deeper Backstory of Penny wise and just
Discussing the new film set to come at us fairly Soon. Odds are that at this point?
You know a good bit about the book or the original miniseries that came out?
And so you've seen firsthand how it fell twice to the losers club and their combined power
once when they were children and once when they were adults thirty years later the entity just
Couldn't withstand their combined might and it ended up passing away never to Terrorize, Derry, Maine ever again
Or is that really the case the first time Pennywise faced the losers was in
1958 the Creature ended up mortally wounded but not dead
It had survived the onset of the ritual of judd and had retreated with the children
Concluding that it had sulked off to find a place to die
however
fearing the worst the kids made a pact with each other through blood that no matter where they were or what happened if it should
Ever return to derry they would as well banding together to kill the entity once and for all
eventually this winds up happening in
1985 the Murders that plagued their childhoods start to happen once again the first being the death of a young man named Adrian melon tossed
From a bridge by three homophobic individuals attacking Adrian and his boyfriend for provoking them with their actions
While Adrian was battered and bloodied on the ground it attacked him
dragging it into its lair at the site of a horrific clown scarred both his lover and one of the bullying youths
after this in Several more incidents Mike Hanlon
Finally called up the other losers
Telling them that it had finally returned
Making sure that they would honour their blood pact as children and return to finish what they started so many years ago of course
you all know the story that they were successful in finally defeating it and freeing the town from its clutches or
did they as
I'm sure you're all aware by now Stephen King's work is pretty special in that a lot of the stories that he writes it takes
Police within the same universe somebody been taking place within the same town and Derry, Maine
Happens to be one of those popular towns that he utilized several times in fact the town makes an appearance in the novel
Dreamcatcher a story that follows four friends that come into contact with an extraterrestrial
Infection one that seeks to use humanity as host bodies to spread themselves across the globe one of the characters in the book
Jonesy becomes infected with his mind taken over by one of these aliens calling itself Mr.. Gray, Mr.
Gray seeks to infect all of derry by polluting the water supply with its spores meaning it has to find access to the standpipe
unfortunately though the standpipe has been destroyed since
1985 after a storm toward asunder once the losers club engaged it for the final time
After finding the wreckage of where it once was Mr.
Gray comes across the shrine devoted to those that lost their lives in the storm
but more importantly it found a shrine to all the children that became food for
Pennywise built by the remaining Losers club members that survived the final encounter
It's a touching scene until the novel describes
Another message scrawled over the top of that one bright red letters gleaming like blood against the devoted message reading the following
Pennywise lives
within the Pages of another book by King the Tommyknockers
We're introduced to another reference that has quite frankly chilling implications
I'm not a big fan of this book so I try to talk about it as little as I can
But essentially a town is brought under the influence of some object within the woods that Grant alien genius and telepathy to the Town's folk
But of course this knowledge comes with a terrible price as the town drifts further and further away from their own humanity
It's an interesting premise sure but again trust me. It's not very good despite all of this. There's a reference in the book
That's pretty disturbing one of the characters in the novel begins to have hallucinations
in a sort of Mental Breakdown driving along the streets of Haven
He sees an image that seems to indicate that Pennywise is indeed alive
Tommy had begun to hallucinate as he drove up, Wentworth street. He thought he saw a clown
Grinning up at him from an open Sewer manhole
a cloud with shiny silver dollars for eyes and a clenched white glove filled with balloons
now at the time Tommy was dealing with a great amount of stress and
Perhaps his mind and experiences aren't fully reliable but the appearance seems a little too familiar to just be a hallucination
Doesn't it probably one of kings most important novels, Insomnia acts sort of like a branch off from the Dark tower series
Introducing the Crimson King for the first time and tying into some of the concepts and scenes that that Saga
Presents such as the wheel of car order versus Chaos
ETc, ETc. The novel however plays a part in this mystery surrounding its survival because the book itself takes place in Derry
Maine as well with small references to it occurring throughout to create a seamless connection however
one of the greatest references
and perhaps the most damning occurs near the book's climax when main character Ralph Roberts pays witness to a
swirling mass of colors in Lights Within Derry sky
Something ralph knows as dead lights and knows that looking into them will drive him to a place far worse than death
After this the Crimson king disappears sucked up to another level by these dead lights
But their mere presence is alarming the dead lights were utilized
Significantly within it as they were known as the entities true form a form that defied human
Conceptions and thought and any who were to stare at these lights would be driven to madness and death?
Their presence is alarming because if he's dead light still remain over derry
Blanketing the town then this could mean that Pennywise and it go far deeper into the town than the losers could ever
Comprehend they may have killed an extension of the creature sure but perhaps there is no way to ever truly free derry from its stranglehold
Perhaps due to its widespread influence after so many years derry wasn't just where it inhabited
But perhaps Derry was it all along and as such its existence lives on as long as derry remains
In this way perhaps it can never truly be killed just that its influence can be lessened significantly
But no matter what it will always hold a place over the town it can blossom
But there would always be a slightly malevolent Force pulling strings just outside of its perception
Derry would always be within its deadlights
Do you believe that Pennywise is still in fact alive?
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