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It appears the entire series has been sent out to the reviewers. Seems to be pretty well-received if not exactly a rave review. http://www.avclub.com/review/james-franco-tries-save-jfk-flawed-worthy-stephen--231721 I don't read a lot of Stephen King but the book was really fun. Also I don't actually care for the entire season dump that Netflix tends to do. It doesn't let shows generate as much momentum and discussion and binge watching a series always sort of changes how it feels
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blue squares posted:Because it's a story and if he just rests out of every conflict, it would be boring.
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Tiggum posted:No one was suggesting he should stay in the past three years and then reset it and try again, but he definitely should have reset it after that first day because he really hosed up and it had only been a day.
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Feb 17, 2016 14:13
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Well, he could start over again but decide he wants to still save the janitor + siblings, and decide to meet up with Billy again. But yeah maybe not. It will be weird if he never starts over at all.
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In the show it seems like Al and Jake got in a fight and Jake walked off, yet they keep having flashbacks to a conversation between them... in any case, in one of those flashbacks Al mentions saving someone from a hunting accident, iirc in the books that accident happened shortly after the rabbit hole opening date and Jake did tons of restarts saving her and seeing how everything plays out? Am I right?
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Feb 27, 2016 06:29
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Basebf555 posted:As soon as they were in a seedy club I knew we were probably going to meet Jack Ruby. "Shady club owner" is like the #1 thing the average person would probably know about Ruby.
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Mar 1, 2016 17:32
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What did they say?
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Mar 1, 2016 17:44
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Yes they do.
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Xoidanor posted:I somehow missed this too.
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Mar 4, 2016 22:22
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Medullah posted:I think a lot of us (especially those that have read the book) were shocked that they did a time jump, and didn't spend a lot more time in the early years.
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That was a weird scene when he was asking his 2016 class what they'd change if they could go back in time because like when was he doing that? He'd still been teaching after learning about the time travel talking to Al? At first I thought that scene was a signal that he was going to screw something up in the past this episode and have to come back.
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Mar 17, 2016 12:43
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Problematic Pigeon posted:Because it looks nothing like his place in Dallas, no one except Bill knows about the place in Dallas, and the recording stuff was set up to play in plain sight by the Yellow Card Man.
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Mar 18, 2016 02:46
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Wow, I just assumed it was the husband. The Yellow Card Man traveled all the way from Maine to gently caress with Jake's girlfriend, what a dick. I guess since Jake isn't resetting the timeline more we're not getting to see the yellow card change color and the guy get more wildly upset, they did that... kinda freaky in an interesting way, although if the yellow card guy is really actively trying to disrupt Jake he could probably try harder. I guess we should assume he'll do more later. This also seems to indicate he's somewhat omniscient just in that he's able to find Jake and do this...
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Mar 18, 2016 03:01
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The Yellow Card Man was pretty memorable in e1 of the show but having him appear in the shadows like 4 episodes later understandably isn't going to ring a lot of bells.
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The ending translated really well from the book to the show. It was touching and a good finale. Hpwever, the journey from beginning to end that didn't connect on the show, and they even sort of tried a few things to keep it interesting in the series but somehow it still just didn't resonate the way the book's middle pages did. On the show it just felt more like they were killing time until 11/22/63. The "time loop" thing for the yellow card man never ended up making sense. I mean, because that guy was caught in a time loop trying to save his kid, he just faded in and out of reality around Jake and hosed with Jake to teach him a lesson? And why does Sadie die "every time" according to him if Jake actually was able to save the janitor and save Kennedy, and Sadie doesn't even die period in the normal timeline? And how is it a "loop" if Jake can just go back to the present and quit trying at any time? Just didn't make sense. Even in the book I was kind of rooting for Jake to just go back to the past and chill there with Sadie forever, but here the reasoning for not doing that was weaker because of the weird yellow card man stuff. Sadie was so sweet and beautiful  Overall, pretty good premiere except when it went a little off the rails with the roaches for example, and very nice finale. The middle kind of lagged after saving the janitor.
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