Alyssa Brown

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SPOILERS Movie adaptation of my favourite Stephen king novels and I feel so disappointed. The movie adopted a linear timeline which was nothing like the novel. The novels timeline eased us into Charlie’s power, teasing us about Andy’s fears and his motive for travelling so often with Charlie through a non-linear timeline (flashbacks). I found that the slow transition into the intensity of the story was a phenomenal way Stephen explores how Andy & Vicky met & developed a distrust in the organisation. a key part of the novel. It all was very smooth and the movie just rushed it. I couldn’t feel settled. They didn’t need to include the two rural characters. They could’ve just been arbitrary, helping them get from place to place at most and nailed focusing on Charlie’s relationship with her father. Couldn’t care less he didn’t make it. Also, extremely cringe. Why make the technician at DSI talk about his pregnant wife for him too… die? It is just a fishing competition at this point. And as for Rainbird and Charlie’s relationship, utterly appalled. Their relationship was profound in the book. Movie does not give this credit and ruins the ending. It’s not justifiable she would resort to being with him, she can defend on her own based on her destructive and confident behaviour we have seen at the end. Lastly, SHE DID NOT GRASP HER POWERS THAT QUICK. Took her quite literally the entire book to really harness her power. Not some spare moments in the woods.