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Also wondering how the Cold War Air Force branch of the story is going to tie into things.}} | Also wondering how the Cold War Air Force branch of the story is going to tie into things.}} | ||
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Dick Halloran from the Shining also shows up in this episode. One of the things I'd been spoiled about. I guess as long as you're expanding one Stephen King tale, though, bringing in parts from other source material isn't too crazy. King's work already sets up a multiverse, so sure, why not some where IT and The Shining have direct overlap? In this case it seems like they were using his powers to help track down the "fear tech" they're hoping to win the Cold War with.}} | Dick Halloran from the Shining also shows up in this episode. One of the things I'd been spoiled about. I guess as long as you're expanding one Stephen King tale, though, bringing in parts from other source material isn't too crazy. King's work already sets up a multiverse, so sure, why not some where IT and The Shining have direct overlap? In this case it seems like they were using his powers to help track down the "fear tech" they're hoping to win the Cold War with.}} | ||
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|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = The military side of things gets more intriguing. They mention things like the "1935 cycle" and "the entity", so they seem to know a lot about the situation in Derry, even though the base commander didn't remember his own childhood experiences until arriving recently. So... how did they learn all of this? Why do they know it now and no longer seem to be involved in the 80s and 2010s? If the future seasons are going to earlier years, how is having flashbacks to 1908 not like, burning what they'll be covering in potential [[IT: Welcome to Derry Season 3|season 3]]? | ||
So the newly formed still-alive group of kids actually managed to get some photographic evidence of weird goings-on. Though I have to assume that will not convince very many people.}} | |||
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Revision as of 16:25, 13 January 2026
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
101: Episode name 2025 October 26
(First watched 2026-01-11) OK, so I went into this _mostly_ blind, beyond a few spoilers that floated in front of my face in recent months. So I'm still catching on to who is who, and what things connect to the main IT story previously known.
The end of the episode, if they aren't doing a big fakeout (which is kind of a hallmark of IT), is pretty shocking. Did they play with our expectations, set up the familiar scenario of a group of kids trying to investigate the situation, and then kill most of them off before the end of the episode?
Also wondering how the Cold War Air Force branch of the story is going to tie into things.
102: Episode name 2025 November 2
(First watched 2026-01-12) Nope, those kids are sure as shit dead!
There are definite comparisons to be made between IT and Stranger Things, but IT definitely pushes the horror aspect much further, as seen in this episode with two of the living children being attacked by visions of their dead parents in awful ways.
90% of the way through the episode I was still wondering how the Air Force stuff was tying in, but then it turned very interesting. A search for hidden unknown technology that causes intense fear (which of course is surely connected to Pennywise), and an Air Force officer with just the right kind of brain damage to prevent him from feeling fear as a tool to help retrieve it.
Dick Halloran from the Shining also shows up in this episode. One of the things I'd been spoiled about. I guess as long as you're expanding one Stephen King tale, though, bringing in parts from other source material isn't too crazy. King's work already sets up a multiverse, so sure, why not some where IT and The Shining have direct overlap? In this case it seems like they were using his powers to help track down the "fear tech" they're hoping to win the Cold War with.
103: Episode name 2025 November 9
(First watched 2026-01-13) The military side of things gets more intriguing. They mention things like the "1935 cycle" and "the entity", so they seem to know a lot about the situation in Derry, even though the base commander didn't remember his own childhood experiences until arriving recently. So... how did they learn all of this? Why do they know it now and no longer seem to be involved in the 80s and 2010s? If the future seasons are going to earlier years, how is having flashbacks to 1908 not like, burning what they'll be covering in potential season 3?
So the newly formed still-alive group of kids actually managed to get some photographic evidence of weird goings-on. Though I have to assume that will not convince very many people.
104: Episode name 2025 November 16
105: Episode name 2025 November 23
106: Episode name 2025 November 30
107: Episode name 2025 December 7
108: Episode name 2025 December 14