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Also, the thinny is in Roland's world but it is also the veil between where IT comes from and the creatures from THE MIST come from and in THE MIST the gunslinger portrait is being done in the beginning by the main character when project arrow head has their accident. Also it is said the veil or thinny is weaker at the hotel in the shining
Also, the thinny is in Roland's world but it is also the veil between where IT comes from and the creatures from THE MIST come from and in THE MIST the gunslinger portrait is being done in the beginning by the main character when project arrow head has their accident. Also it is said the veil or thinny is weaker at the hotel in the shining
It’s Randall Flagg not Rick and he wasn’t a nobody that happened to get powers he was a demon/evil sorcerer who is an antagonist in many of King’s books
RF/Martin Broadclock/Walter O'Dim is a man first. When Mordred ate his eyes, tongue, and finally the rest of him he saw as much within his mind. What he did and how, are a part of the Crimson King's former might, at least I think. Pretty sure he's let a demon into his being as well.
The Stand is a masterpiece. During covid I patiently waited for the apocalypse, imagining the worst case scenario that King created. Oh I for sure would have died, as I was a CCU nurse. The Stand and Michael Criton's Coma were what was every day life for me during that time. Yeah, until you take 6 bodies to the morgue in a 12 hour shift, you will never know how close the bleakness of Stephen King is to reality. He is tapped into something more than most humans will ever know. I love him so much.
My mom died of covid in 2020. After that, I was ready for it. The end, as it were. I was sick of hearing people in the media and online speculating that it was all a hoax. I would think "good one. You really had me going. So when is my ma coming home?" The Stand is so good, because it doesn't need to exaggerate too much. King understands humans. It's a love/hate relationship with society that I feel in my soul.
Every time you call Randall Flagg "Rick Flagg" it made me giggle a little--one of his aliases is Richard Fannin, so you're not entirely wrong, but it still hit my ear funny every time you said it.
Im old enough to remember as a kid in the late 80's seeing the commercial on tv for the complete and uncut version of this book with the two guys fighting on the cover. It stuck with me throughout my life and I read the Stand for the 1st time around 1999, i have since read and reread it twice a year since. It helps keep me in balance. That is how amazing this book is.
I love this video- I’m putting it on my Rainy Day Content playlist. Some minor mistakes and things but I love your perspective and the passion in your words- I would love to see you do a whole Stephen King series on your channel!😎
The dancing fever is a reference to a real illness that roamed parts of Europe during the late midevil age. People simply danced until they died of. This phenomenon has never been solved.
I read this book 30+ years ago and the part where they feel their way through the Lincoln tunnel is so vivid, I think about it every time I travel through not only the Lincoln tunnel but any other tunnel in NYC as well
The Stand is a great book for the simple fact that it does what all great escapist fiction does, and builds a world that the reader can imagine themselves inhabiting and wondering how they would act. Every successful franchise does this; harry potter, star wars, MCU... Sure, you watch the shows and movies, but the magic is mostly the ability to superimpose yourself into those settings.
The stand is a masterpiece. King sought out to create the lord of the rings in modern times, and he did just that in his own horrific way. The stand is a book about lawlessness, and what half of people would do vs. What the other half of people would do. Its psychological, its terrifying, and its also full of the hope that makes people social creatures. Its amazing, ive read it twice, and im ready to read it again.
Randall Flagg has a lot more in common with Nyarlathotep than the devil he's malicious but more of a trickster with a long-term plan that goes far beyond this level of the tower.
The devil is a trickster. he has pieces of every trickster throughout all of the religions that Christianity ever came into contact with. Although his plan is known, his means are infinite and complex.
One of my favorite stories of all time. I own the book but never read it. I watch the movie probably once a year because its very good. Thanks for making this video and well done.
I know a large part of the cut content is trash can man’s journey which is why I’ve only read the uncut version once. Also It’s Randall Flagg, not Rick, and the bad guys went to “the city of sin” an old nickname for vegas )I dunno if you’re old enough to have caught that one on your own. I think you’ve got the makings of a great reviewer for sure and I’m excited to see you grow and bloom! Good luck
Trash cans man journey is worth the read. Hes literally an autistic pyromaniac, and his psychology is very interesting to read. King writes him sympathetically, taking into account, his obsession with fire, and his inability to understand social life. How he is taken advantage of because of his obsession becoming a skill, and hes subserviant nature when someone is willing to indulge his urges, something that was supressed by the "old world". Trashcan man is one of the simplest, yet most complex characters ive ever read about. Worth the time.
Just finished it in less than 2 weeks. M-O-O-N! That spells wow! I loved it. You can tell who my favorite character is but shoutout also to Big Steve/Kojak!
Wow. I have read fantasy most of my life, and fell in love with Stephen's work when I was still a preteen. I have read almost all of his early work. The Stand is the only fictional book I've never been able to finish, even though I have tried to read it many times. I came to terms with never finishing it over a decade ago. This excellent video has done the impossible - you have made me excited to read and finally finish it. ❤❤❤ Thank you.
ANd in the quick of a flash they reach for a moment and try to reach their honest Stand. BUt they wind up wounded and not even dead. Tonite in Jungleland. --- Bruce Springsteen.
i read the book last year as i lay in bed, with a slight covid case weighing me down and keeping me in bed. I read all 1400 pages of it in like three days, absolutely mesmerized by the description of the captain trips pandemic in the first part. It was terrifying in the context of the last few years, and made me realize how much trauma from these years I still had and have, made me remember the paranoia of the first few days, then weeks, then months on lockdown, when even going to the market made me scared to catch covid. totally electrifying, scary, great book.
Love the mention of the Judge from Blood Meridian. If you haven't read it yet, do so and especially if you have trouble reading, check out the audiobook. You can find it for free. It is admittedly a tough read as its written in sort of a stream of consciousness style with little to no punctuation.
A good portion of the content added back into the Uncut edition is more of the end of the world. Smaller stories combined into the end of Captain Trips about ranfom people who did not die of the disease but by other means. Like an old man who jogs a lot and has a heart attack, or a child who wandered into a bush and falls down a well and starves to death. And a woman who is afraid of being attacked so she accidentally shoots herself with her own gun, because the bullets are so old it just blew up in her hand. A school of children is mowed down by the military for trying to peacfully exit the quarantine zone. Really horrific stuff. Plus, all the time specific refrences were all aged up to refrence the '90's. So it doesn't take place in the '70's anymore.
Guthrie actually explained whart "This is my land, this land is your land" because so many people were using it in a wrong context. He was travelling and came to a fanced off piece of private land. Right there it struck him that no one should fence themselves off from their felllow man. The world truly belongs to all of us. And, yes, he was very left wing and didn't like borders or people claiming ownership over pieces of land and nature, keeping the common man out for no good reason except greed
Here is the relevant part he quoted as the point and inspiration of the song. "There was a big, high wall there that tried to stop me A sign was painted said "Private Property" But on the backside, it didn't say nothing This land was made for you and me"
It's called on the border because there is a thinny growing between Flagg and Mother Abigail connecting this mundane level of the tower to outworld so the entire world has literally moved to the border of reality, the world is figuratively on the precipice between the light and the outer dark, and the story is on the border between getting the band together and playing the show.
I love _The Stand_ in fact, the only thing I love more than this story is probably Coors. Coors beer is the only beer. I’d piss Coors if I could. You believe that happy crappy?
I really wish we could see a version of the book on a cable channel like HBO. Made by people who love the book and seek to make a faithful adaptation. The version from the 90s was way too short, and the most recent adaptation fell victim to writers who thought they could improve on it.
@@happyfuntimereviews5600 Don’t tell me, I’ll tell you!! My thoughts EXACTLY. Yes, the 1990 extended version might not flow as well as the original, but when it comes to this story, I want as much content and character development as possible. The fact that the remake replaced Larry Underwood’s escape from Manhattan through the corpse clogged Lincoln Tunnel - the most chilling part of the novel AND the ‘94 miniseries (IMO) the grotesque horror of all those ppl decomposing, the terror of something else down there inexplicably coming after Larry in the pitch black darkness, Stephen King at his absolute best, replaced with Larry using his smartphone’s gps down in the sewers and cgi rats, tells you everything you need to know when it comes to comparing the 1994 and 2020 versions. A big budget, 2 season HBO adaptation that stayed as true as possible to the extended version of the Extended version of the book would be incredible. The only thing incredible about the 2020 remake is the overall disappointment…
@@jamesm34712 seasons would still be cutting it short, no? Youre asking for the moon, in supposing directors and writers of visual media today would ever respect a written source that was published before 2012. I'd like to see at least 4 seasons please, thanks.
Nah the slowest/draggiest section isn't the rebuilding in Colorado, it was the last quarter where Stu is slogging back to Colorado. That part drags soooo long. Randall Flagg was not a nobody, who happened to get powers, he was an ancient and immortal evil being. He was definitely evil for the sake of being evil and lashed out at his followers, who lived in paranoia and fear. The people on that side weren't good, they gave in to the dreams they had of a very evil being. Boulder, Colorado was chosen due to the low volume of bodies. It was sent to Mother Abigail, none of the earthly survivors picked it. They were told, we're going here and they went.
Wasn’t the hand of god an old nuke they found out in the desert? It’s been awhile since i read it but I think I remember the trash can man found it and brought it and figured out how to set it off because he wanted to see the big fire or something, and the fact that it just so happened to line up with the two guys getting executed is a part of the whole fated outcome thing.
Kings Magnum Opus is The Dark Tower. The Stand is only the events upon one of its many beams. Randal Flagg hails from midworld and dwelt in Giliad itself once upon a bye. So his evils come from the Prim. The Stand has the Tokuro Spirit, and Nozzola. It's not the "real" beam.
I have to ask did you read the book. You mentioned the cuts. The 1990 version isn't uncut they're cuts left in. An where were the cuts removed he says that to. A lot of details are wrong. Why people did or didn't do things etc
Well, none of us were subject to the brutality of the Japanese empire or Nazi Germany during the war, so we can’t really speak on history we didn’t live through. Japan would have done the same to the United States had they been afforded the opportunity.
@@brantisonfireI, Randall Flagg was there. On a different run of the Wheel of Ka but I was there and can say for sure they didn’t deserve it just like me and the fine citizens of New Vegas didn’t. Notice we didn’t try to nuke the Bolder Free Zone. (the claims Trashy was already working on getting us a nuke for that purpose is pure conspiracy and fake news) yet that wicked Mother Abigail and her disciple’s God still nuked us just cause I knew some spooky cool magic tricks. He never felt the need to nuke Chris Angel who also did magic in Vegas. My point is, when I finish teaching these tribesmen everything and come back for the building of Newer Vegas, I hope we all learn from history which side is the right side. Also Newer Vegas will be like in the new miniseries and not the book, meaning we will allow cocaine and strippers. That alone says who’s side is the right side. Which would you rather take part in? Multiple chapter long ad-hoc meetings for a group that couldn’t stop a edgelord incel nerd from killing most of their politicians or cocaine and strippers? The answer is clear. #TeamFlagg
Just rewatched the movie/mini-series, and I gotta' say, it really feels like Stephen King did not know a satisfying way to end what is otherwise an INCREDIBLE story. The four men being sent to Vegas from Colorado after Abigail tells them to kind of feel like they were sent there for absolutely nothing at all. Seriously, why did Abigail send them? If she was prophetic, did she not see that Trashcan man was gonna bring a nuke into the city? What did their deaths *actually* accomplish? What was the goal? It just really feels like Stephen wrote himself into a corner and answered his own frustrations with "da hand of god nukes dem all" because he got sick of his own story and just wanted to be done with it already.
The Stand gives King an enormous amount of time to build his characters. Even though the story is jam-packed with characters we get to know them intimately because of the sheer length of the work. Other writers like Salman Rushdie and John Irving skilled at writing characters and dialogue that they can make you feel as though you know these people within a hundred pages.... King has never been that naturally gifted at character building, but the breadth of the novel gives him the luxury of building these characters to a point that we deeply care what happens to them, something that's missing from a lot of his shorter works
The opening & the thumbnail brings back so many memories. I was a kid in grade school when my Mom got this book. I would always look at the cover and wonder "What the h*ll is going on??? We got some Luke Skywalker wannabe fighting a... a... WHAT DAFUQ IS THAT THING????? Is this Dungeons and Dragons meets Star Wars??? WHAT THE H*LL AM I LOOKING AT??? IS THIS WHAT HAPPENES IN THE ACOPALYPSE????? IS THIS JESUS AS LUKE SKYWALKER AND IS HE FIGHTING THE DEVIL??????" (Mind you, I went to Catholic School in the 70s to 80s... so, I'm easily triggered. )
9:50 this reminds me of reading accounts from Ron Haeberle and Hugh Thompson. Both witnesses the massacre of mai lai, documenting the horror and in Thompson's case saving some. The horror they described of being a small cog in this greater machine araid that they could be next.
I am reading this book now. I watched both TV adaptations and l often think how l would react to what happened. I would get as far away from other people as possible. Why go back to a society where you have to follow rules and work when everything is free? I’d get a beautiful house and relax. I am also rather anti-social
The Stand is basically Lord of the Rings but infused with Americana, which is no surprise because Tolkien wanted to tell an epic based of Anglo-Saxon folklore, King dose the exact same thing here.
I like the idea but it deffintly needs some work on delivery. Some edits and redelivers. The reading of the songs is probably one of the less good deliveries and the woody guthrie one where you half sang the first line then quit for the rest was kinda funny. Hopefully the future videos are a little more refined
I didn't read down below if anyone discussed the end scene with the nuke. It is the literal hand of god.... The 4 were sent west by mother Abigail as she DID receive a message from god in the wilderness. when the 4 went willingly into the lair of the beast, the lord accepted their sacrifice and smote the evil old testament style. If you read all the interconnected stories in the King-verse, Gan, or the Turtle... I've always believed THAT is what answered Abigail in the wilderness. Whether or not that was the Abrahamic God of the Bible is up to interpretation.
He is obviously young. A lot of the subtlety is probably lost on him. Also the book is of it's time. It may be difficult for a young person to understand 1970s USA.
It really is an amazing book, the only problem in my view is the ending King can't write endings for crap, he fumbled the ending to 'the stand' he fucked up 'the gunslinger' ugh don't even want to think about it... Neither Miniseries really holds up either, though i think the older one has better actors...
Yeah, Hiroshima was bad, but how many more would have died if we decided to invade instead? We are STILL using the purple hearts they made in anticipation of the invasion
The cities were chosen because they are both relatively large by huge dams to provide power and water, not because one is a good place and one is bad. You could have easily reversed the cities.
There’s no dam near Boulder, Colorado. I lived there. We have a reservoir but not a dam. You are thinking of Boulder City, Nevada. Boulder is known as “The Bubble” or “The People’s Republic of Boulder” because of its hippie, inclusive and liberal culture.
0:33... I know. My Mom had this book with THAT cover. And it was heavy a.f. I remember when she had all of his books (at that time) on top of our glass & steel shelf (called an etagere), and every now and then, his books would topple over. And if The Stand was about to fall... LOOK OUT!!!
I get it, Nukes are awful. But 1 Nation Invading another is straight up Hell on Earth. WW2 was Hell on Earth, 30 Million Russian People lost their Lives in that War.
I tried reading The Stand. The 200 page boringness about rebuilding was where I put it down and refused to pick it back up. Just couldn't do it. I remember reading about the plan to go out to Vegas. I remember them talking about going out and wanting to do something, but I also remember thinking that I was over halfway through and that I couldn't relate to our horny protagonist. I'm sorry, but that always got in the way of my enjoyment of the book and Steven King in general. He's too damn horny.
