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|epname = | |epname = The Pilot | ||
|epdate = 2025-10-26 | |epdate = 2025-10-26 | ||
|firstwatched = 2026-01-11 | |firstwatched = 2026-01-11 | ||
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|epname = | |epname = The Thing in the Dark | ||
|epdate = 2025-11-02 | |epdate = 2025-11-02 | ||
|firstwatched = 2026-01-12 | |firstwatched = 2026-01-12 | ||
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|epname = | |epname = Now You See It | ||
|epdate = 2025-11-09 | |epdate = 2025-11-09 | ||
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|epnum = 104 | |epnum = 104 | ||
|epname = | |epname = The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet's Function | ||
|epdate = 2025-11-16 | |epdate = 2025-11-16 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2026-01-14 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = So the natives have been dealing with "the Galoo" or whatever for a long time, though I wonder how their story got the detail of it arriving millions of years ago. | ||
Halfway through and enough people are realizing that Something Is Wrong, including Leroy Hanlon seeing enough strange things like the scratches on his son and the anomalous balloons to know it's not all just in his kid's head. | |||
I haven't mentioned it yet, but this show's title sequence is a really good one. Sickly sweet lyrics with retro visuals that are just a bit off and progressively get more twisted... it's the show.}} | |||
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|epnum = 105 | |epnum = 105 | ||
|epname = | |epname = 29 Neibolt Street | ||
|epdate = 2025-11-23 | |epdate = 2025-11-23 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2026-01-15 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = So, to the creepy house and the sewers already. Considering that's such an important entry... why is it abandoned? The protectors don't have a presence there? And nobody does still going decades forward? | ||
Some of the characters have connections to characters seen in later parts of the IT story, but it's becoming harder to imagine the HOW or WHY. Like... after all this shit, why are the Hanlons sticking around Derry? Do they end up with the mistaken belief that it's safe after this cycle ends? Or that decades down the road is too far to be worrying about?}} | |||
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|epnum = 106 | |epnum = 106 | ||
|epname = | |epname = In the Name of the Father | ||
|epdate = 2025-11-30 | |epdate = 2025-11-30 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2026-01-16 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = OK, so... "Pennywise" has a human daughter? But we know this thing has been around much longer. So how do these facts jive? Did the entity "absorb" him or just find aspects of his act useful to continue mimicking in the future?}} | ||
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|epnum = 107 | |epnum = 107 | ||
|epname = | |epname = The Black Spot | ||
|epdate = 2025-12-07 | |epdate = 2025-12-07 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2026-01-17 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = So the military plan was just to... destroy the pillars, allowing the thing to escape and cause mass fear for a calmer society? What the fuck. So the thing's sleep cycle had begun, but destroying a pillar has woken it back up.}} | ||
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|epnum = 108 | |epnum = 108 | ||
|epname = | |epname = Winter Fire | ||
|epdate = 2025-12-14 | |epdate = 2025-12-14 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2026-01-18 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = Well, one thing about prequels is you tend to know what's going to happen so it can lack big surprises. But you don't always know everything! Sure didn't know about a crazy fog overtaking Derry and most of the children in town being temporarily entranced by the deadlights. | ||
So the "time travel" bit is another thing I had spoiled, so not a big shock. Having seen it, though, it seems more like... Billy Pilgrim or a DS9 Prophet. Not so much time travel as not experiencing time linearly. A 1935 season wouldn't be him going back to change things, but just 1935 him aware of 1962, 1988, 2015 events. | |||
"Richie" as one of the child characters here was conspicuous as a shared name with the later Richie Tozier, and in this episode we get the strong implication that future Richie is named after this Richie. | |||
The Hanlons stick around to be part of the Keep The Galoo Caged Club... where the hell were these people the next few cycles? Pretty much all we know is Leroy is still around as a farmer. | |||
One thing they push at the very end is "Noone who dies in Derry ever really dies." which... puts in doubt the finality of Pennywise's defeat? Along with of course him saying that death/birth seemed the same to him. | |||
On the whole I enjoyed this season a lot. Advantage over the films is it was a TV series story built for TV series pacing, rather than a 1000 page novel rearranged into the shape of two features.}} | |||
[[IT: Welcome to Derry Season 2]] | [[IT: Welcome to Derry Season 2]] | ||
[[Category:IT: Welcome to Derry Seasons]] | [[Category:IT: Welcome to Derry Seasons]] | ||
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