Thread by @AlexandraErin

My strongest single thought in response to watching the first episode of new The Stand adaptation is: these people seriously edited Yeats?

I guess Starkey might have been trying to get to what he saw as the really important bit and so he skipped through a bit of the really well-known lines to make sure he didn't collapse before he got to the rough beast.

Also I'm pretty sure it was canonical that he didn't know how to pronounce the name but I can understand J.K. Simmons and/or the showrunners not wanting to say "Yeets" in the present year.

I wasn't sure how much I'd enjoy watching a pandemic apocalypse in 2020 but mostly it just gives a sense of perspective about how things could be worse, along with a lot of stuff that rings distressingly accurate.

Like a bit where a radio announcer is responding to a proposed ban on gatherings with "I don't know about you, but I've never let fear of a few sniffles stop me..." probably resonated differently when it was written and shot.

They're telling the story in a very different way, structurally, than the novel or the previous adaptation, which I suppose only makes sense when there was a previous big TV event version of it.

Two things that slightly tickled me are the idea that the Walkin' Dude is Pennywise's brother (this is based solely on the casting), and that they appear to have decided to give him Billy Joel's "The Stranger" as a leitmotif, though no idea if that will extend past episode 1.

First episode has a lot of vomit and basically all manner of body grossness. I do kind of expect that to keep happening.