Back in the present, Bill is racing ahead of the others, due to being so worried about Audra. As anyone who's watched a horror movie can tell you, this is a stupid idea. Bill, being a horror writer, actually stops and waits for the others. Disaster averted?
They find the bodies of Victor and Criss (the dead boys who helped Henry get to Mike), and it's a little fatiguing. We and they have known those boys were dead for quite some time. Same with Patrick. We need something new to fear.
King gives us just that as Bill almost falls apart over Audra. This is one of the few elements that isn't on cycle from the 50's encounter: an actual person needing to be saved. In the 50's, the person Bill loved was a year dead by the time he confronted IT. Maybe that made all the difference. More on that later.
Now we go back to the 50s, where the still-living Henry and company are chasing them. The kids are less worried about that, knowing the final confrontation with IT is coming. Much like how the reader knows those boys won't kill any of them. However, we do get a moment of terror when Ritchie conjures IT into The Crawling Eye.
I've seen The Crawling Eye. Not scary. But Ritchie is someone else, with more eye issues than me, and it really bothered him. The others, seeing an actual tentacled eye, are also drawn in. Except for Eddie. Eddie, who has the greatest quote of all time upon attacking: "Jesus Christ you fucking pussies I'm doing the Mashed Potatoes all over It AND I GOT A BROKEN ARM!"
No surprise, this works (along with an 'acid spray' from his aspirator), and the kids make it past. But Bill knows now: they're really close to IT. He doesn't yet know how scared of them IT is, but he's getting closer to that truth as well.
There's another quick attack by a monster bird, but Stan gets rid of it, shouting that he believes a great many thing things, but not that IT is a real bird. Oh Stan. How I wish you could have had the strength to stand beside them as adults. But I get why you didn't. The adult others will too, very soon.
They come to a tiny fairy tale door, wherein IT is housed...or as much of the real 'IT' as our universe can hold. Remember how IT came from outside our universe entirely? Well, we're about to get deep into that cosomological shit. But that's a blog for next time.
They find the bodies of Victor and Criss (the dead boys who helped Henry get to Mike), and it's a little fatiguing. We and they have known those boys were dead for quite some time. Same with Patrick. We need something new to fear.
King gives us just that as Bill almost falls apart over Audra. This is one of the few elements that isn't on cycle from the 50's encounter: an actual person needing to be saved. In the 50's, the person Bill loved was a year dead by the time he confronted IT. Maybe that made all the difference. More on that later.
Now we go back to the 50s, where the still-living Henry and company are chasing them. The kids are less worried about that, knowing the final confrontation with IT is coming. Much like how the reader knows those boys won't kill any of them. However, we do get a moment of terror when Ritchie conjures IT into The Crawling Eye.
I've seen The Crawling Eye. Not scary. But Ritchie is someone else, with more eye issues than me, and it really bothered him. The others, seeing an actual tentacled eye, are also drawn in. Except for Eddie. Eddie, who has the greatest quote of all time upon attacking: "Jesus Christ you fucking pussies I'm doing the Mashed Potatoes all over It AND I GOT A BROKEN ARM!"
He is a poet.
No surprise, this works (along with an 'acid spray' from his aspirator), and the kids make it past. But Bill knows now: they're really close to IT. He doesn't yet know how scared of them IT is, but he's getting closer to that truth as well.
There's another quick attack by a monster bird, but Stan gets rid of it, shouting that he believes a great many thing things, but not that IT is a real bird. Oh Stan. How I wish you could have had the strength to stand beside them as adults. But I get why you didn't. The adult others will too, very soon.
They come to a tiny fairy tale door, wherein IT is housed...or as much of the real 'IT' as our universe can hold. Remember how IT came from outside our universe entirely? Well, we're about to get deep into that cosomological shit. But that's a blog for next time.
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