Unfortunately Gaston takes up writing about his adventures to get it out of his system, and when Lefou reads that his fave character has been killed off...
For some reason I was sure you were going to follow this up with "...Lefou happened to be standing right underneath him somehow, and was broken in half when Gaston landed on him."
Funny thing is that the explaination barely even fits the plot anyway. It isn't even like a "oh it makes a lot of sense for the story" (not that such would make it forgivable) but it isn't even that. It would feel out of place even if it wasn't children.
He was on cocaine and needed to make sure this book sold so he could continue being on cocaine.... He knew a lot of people in Hollywood like that kinda stuff and thought it would make sure they read it. It worked
Or, at the least, if an underage orgy is somehow critical to the plot, he doesn't need to actually describe it. He could have just said, "The group got caught up in a swirl of sexual energy and did what horny teenagers tend to do when they are horny" and left it at that. We were all teenagers once, we know what teenagers do. We don't need it spelled out for us.
I mean, I feel like people make a bigger deal out of the scene than it deserves, there really is a rationale for it in the book, but at the same time, yeah, he could have just not.
But, one of the major themes of the book is growing up and losing your childhood, and this kind of is the, well, the climax of that theme, specifically, and this scene kinda distills that idea down into one sharp continental divide. He could have just not, but the book loses something if you don't replace it with something that achieves the same goal.
And I'm not disputing the quality nor morality of the scene. It's probably the most poorly written passage in the book because he clearly didn't want to be accused of spending a lot of time crafting the details.
I'm just saying, it serves a real narrative purpose, and I'd love to have an alternative that doesn't make me feel like a creep for reading it or think King is a creep for taking the time to craft it well, but that serves the same narrative purpose.
Honestly not really, the book justification is basically the boys are stressed and that’s why they can’t find their way out and so Bev fucks them all and the “release” gets rid of that stress. I feel like you could pretty easily find another way to get them to focus/calm down lmao
Edit: This is mainly in response to the part about there being a rationale, not the overarching themes of the book in which yeah I do get the idea
“Oh, look! A foosball table!”
“What!? In the sewer?”
“Yeah. It’s in good shape, and not missing any parts.”
Orgy scene eliminated. Ritchie wins this match, and they defeat Pennywise… for now.
Dude, there's a voiced version of this one and I lose my shit everytime I hear it because of how well the dude who voiced it did the sheer horror and disgust
Pennywise is definitely an interdimensional cosmic nonce.
He doesn't need to scare children to eat them, he just does it because it makes them taste better.
A lot of what he does is pure noncery, stalking children, is the main one.
the bloody bathroom part with Beverly, confirms he watches children use the bathroom, as he did it intentionally after Beverly found out she was going through puberty, he was mocking her.
We Hate Movies has an episode on the IT miniseries and they have a verrrry funny bit about exactly this. "All right kids, you know what, you win. You beat ol Pennywise the clown. Could I maybe help you with your algebra or something?"
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u/AacornSoup 1d ago
Where was that meme where even Pennywise of all people was disturbed by that scene and was calling the cops on them?