"The Circle Closes" takes the subtext (and outright text) of the past reincarnating in the present of the 1980s and brings it, well, full circle.
We begin with Bev's POS husband, Tom Rogan. He's dreaming about chasing kids through a sewer with two others beside him. But not before dreaming of killing his father with a switchblade to the neck. Because in for a Pennywise, in for a a pound!
Anyway, Tom is guided forwards by Pennywise's voice. Pennywise advises him that it doesn't amtter where or even who either of them are: all that matters is that Tom is chasing Bev, and she needs to be beaten. Also, she fucked Bill. It's really creepy that Pennywise knows that.
Tom eventually wakes up after seeing that Belch and Victor are rotting corpses, only to find a large, moonish, glowing balloon in his room, and Pennywise's voice still in his head. Pennywise then swiftly brings Tom under his control: much like Bev's dad, it barely took anything. Plus, Tom wasn't too sane to begin with, so being in Derry isn't helping.
We then cut to Audra's dream. Yeah, remember Bill's famous wife who looks a lot like Bev, and happens to be staying in the same hotel as Tom? Well, she's dreaming of a black sewer. She's following young Bill as Bev, and they happen upon a little wooden door with a mark (more on that later). When she awakens she gets her own song and Dance from Pennywise: voices in her bathroom, rotting clowns on the TV, the works. And true to her terrible luck (and IT's manipulations), as she flees into the night, she falls right into the arms of Tom.
It's a little hard to return to a character that we haven't seen for hundreds of pages. Even harder when it's right after her husband cheated on her. She truly doesn't deserve everything that's about to happen to her. I think her closest approximation with the time doubling is of Georgie: someone close to Bill, who is hurt by Pennywise and doesn't deserve any of it: it is simply bad luck, and IT's hunger.
No time for that now, because it's back to Eddie's room where the remaining losers have gathered. Bev calls the library and finds out that Mike is alive (barely). They all realize that if they involve the town at theis point, they'll be killed, either by IT or by IT's minions. The only option is to head down into the sewers.
Too bad when they get there Bill finds Audra's purse, and realizes they're even more fucked than before.
Next time, we fin ally get that look into IT's mind that I've been promising all this time. Oh boy!
We begin with Bev's POS husband, Tom Rogan. He's dreaming about chasing kids through a sewer with two others beside him. But not before dreaming of killing his father with a switchblade to the neck. Because in for a Pennywise, in for a a pound!
Anyway, Tom is guided forwards by Pennywise's voice. Pennywise advises him that it doesn't amtter where or even who either of them are: all that matters is that Tom is chasing Bev, and she needs to be beaten. Also, she fucked Bill. It's really creepy that Pennywise knows that.
Tom eventually wakes up after seeing that Belch and Victor are rotting corpses, only to find a large, moonish, glowing balloon in his room, and Pennywise's voice still in his head. Pennywise then swiftly brings Tom under his control: much like Bev's dad, it barely took anything. Plus, Tom wasn't too sane to begin with, so being in Derry isn't helping.
We then cut to Audra's dream. Yeah, remember Bill's famous wife who looks a lot like Bev, and happens to be staying in the same hotel as Tom? Well, she's dreaming of a black sewer. She's following young Bill as Bev, and they happen upon a little wooden door with a mark (more on that later). When she awakens she gets her own song and Dance from Pennywise: voices in her bathroom, rotting clowns on the TV, the works. And true to her terrible luck (and IT's manipulations), as she flees into the night, she falls right into the arms of Tom.
It's a little hard to return to a character that we haven't seen for hundreds of pages. Even harder when it's right after her husband cheated on her. She truly doesn't deserve everything that's about to happen to her. I think her closest approximation with the time doubling is of Georgie: someone close to Bill, who is hurt by Pennywise and doesn't deserve any of it: it is simply bad luck, and IT's hunger.
No time for that now, because it's back to Eddie's room where the remaining losers have gathered. Bev calls the library and finds out that Mike is alive (barely). They all realize that if they involve the town at theis point, they'll be killed, either by IT or by IT's minions. The only option is to head down into the sewers.
Too bad when they get there Bill finds Audra's purse, and realizes they're even more fucked than before.
Next time, we fin ally get that look into IT's mind that I've been promising all this time. Oh boy!
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