Poop Goes the Weasel (Dreamcatcher)

Imagine encountering a stranger in the snowy

woods, seemingly suffering from exposure. So

you bring them back to your warm and cozy cabin,

cook them some soup and give them blankets, and

they repay this kindness by proceeding to drop

the most foul -smelling butt bubbles so close

to you that the taste seems to settle on your

tongue. How would you react? I'm Brandon O, this

is Terrorific, and we're chopping up 2003's Dreamcatcher.

Welcome back to the place where it's perpetually

spooky season. It's been six weeks since the

season three finale and low -key I planned to take

off at least like eight weeks bro but the little

smiling heart was like the green goblin mask

dog just like calling to me bro so we back. I've

been in the trenches on threads lately. Every

time one of those dear algo threads comes up

with folks asking to be connected with horror

fans or seeking new podcasts to listen to I reply

to all that shit. And sometimes I'm successful

in recruiting new listeners. So if you're one

of them, welcome. But I responded to one thread

recently asking for people to share their show.

So I did. And someone replied saying that Terrific

sounds amazing and that they were going to check

it out. Now, most times when folks say they're

going to check something out, they, in fact,

do not check things out. But this particular

person actually followed up with this response.

Quote. My son and I listened to Gorgon's Gone

Wild yesterday. Totally enjoyed it. I love that

I can find gems like your podcast on these threads.

So nice to quote unquote meet you. And that right

there is what it's all about. Interacting with

people on an individual level, putting them onto

this little passion project of mine and hopefully

providing some entertainment along the way. So

shout out to Kat Yorick and her son for pulling

up to the party. And Kat is actually a podcast

host herself. Her show is titled Call Her Kat.

And every week, she and guests gently dive into

the messy, complex, and profound truth of healing,

exploring generational trauma, personal struggles,

and the unexpected joys that emerge when you

trade old habits for healthier ones. So you can

find Call Her Kat on Spotify, Apple, and more.

But here we are at the season four premiere.

And honestly, every time i start a new season

part of me a relatively large part of me actually

is surprised that i'm still doing this because

if past behaviors are any indicator then i should

have been done after like six episodes i am notorious

for picking up new hobbies and getting really

into them for like two three weeks maybe a couple

of months and then Losing all interest overnight

and trying something new. But here I am still

going with this show. So maybe after 35 years,

I have finally found something that's going to

stick. But let's take things back to the summer

of like 2002, 2003. I was in like eighth, ninth

grade around that time. And my parents used to

make me read books over the summer just to keep

the mind sharp. So I wasn't just vegging out

watching TV all day. And my dad had like Stephen

King novels lying around. So eventually I picked

up a couple of these. And I started with some

that were like the collection of short stories,

like Everything's Eventual. And these short stories

included things like 1408, The Night Flyer, The

Road Virus Heads North, etc. And it didn't take

long for me to become like a really big fan of

Stephen King's work. And that became the foundation

of my affinity for horror. Naturally, I had to

dedicate a season to the film adaptations of

The Horror King himself. Now, if you aren't already,

be sure to follow the show on IG at Terrorific

Podcast because that's where I leave little breadcrumbs

about each season's new theme, as well as clues

about which film would be covered in the upcoming

episode. Crowns were the centerpiece of my hints

for this season for reasons that are now... Obvious,

and I put something on my story for folks to

guess the theme, and I got some varied responses.

For example, someone guessed Halloween, which

I guess Michael Myers is the king of murder and

mayhem, so sure, I guess I can check out. Scream

Queens, which I see where you're going with that.

Best Horror Franchises, that's a solid guess.

And even Evil Dead, but there were two that guessed

correctly. First was my guy Isaiah, aka The Bitter

Wolf. He has a series called The Horror Mosaic

where he interviews people in the horror space

about the genre, their upcoming projects, their

origins, etc. And you can find it on YouTube

on his channel. And check out episode 36 featuring

yours truly if you're looking for a place to

start. And the second person to correctly guess

the theme of the season was Missy, one of the

hosts of the Grimley podcast. And Missy also

correctly guessed Season 3's VHS theme, so I

guess I need some tougher clues in the future.

But Grimly is a true crime pod where each week

Missy and her co -host Meg uncover the creepy,

unexplained, and downright terrifying stories

and cases, all with a dash of humor, wit, and

curiosity. And you can find Grimly on Wondery,

Spotify, Apple, etc. But the first full -length

Stephen King novel I remember reading during

those summer sessions, and it's still one of

my favorites of his works, is the subject of

today's episode, Dreamcatcher. The novel was

released in 2001 after being written in 1999

while King was recovering from an accident where

he was hit by a car. Its working title was Cancer.

Jesus, until his wife Tabitha convinced him to

change it, which Tabitha, that was probably a

good call. I don't know if a book titled Cancer

would really fly off the shelves, even if it

was one of Stephen King's books. But King told

Rolling Stone in 2014 that he doesn't really

like Dreamcatcher very much. And this is possibly

due to the fact that he was hopped up on Oxy

when he wrote it to deal with the pain of his

injuries. So back in June of 99, Stephen King

was walking on the side of a road in Maine when

a driver, distracted by his loose dog moving

around in the back of his minivan, hit him. And

his injuries were severe. It included a collapsed

right lung, multiple fractures of his right leg,

a scalp laceration and a broken hip. And all

this led to him being hospitalized for about

three weeks, bro. And King's leg was so shattered

that doctors initially considered amputation,

but they were able to stabilize the bones in

his leg with an external fixator, which if you

haven't seen what an external fixator looks like,

holy shit, it is like gnarly, bro. Just this

metal monstrosity that's insane looking. So yeah,

bro underwent like five operations in 10 days

to get his shit fixed. Insane. What's arguably

even more insane is that the driver of this minivan

was charged with driving to endanger an aggravated

assault. He ended up pleading guilty to the former

charge and received a whopping six month jail

sentence, which was suspended. And he had his

license suspended for a year as well. This is

pretty light work for hitting one of the world's

most famous authors with your whip and having

him hospitalized for three weeks. But Stephen

King and his wife ended up purchasing the van

to prevent someone else from buying it and chopping

it up to sell on eBay, before eventually disposing

of it themselves. But some of the plot points

in Dreamcatcher make a lot more sense when you

have this context. So the film adaptation, released

in 2003, was directed by Lawrence Kazdan, and

it was co -written by Kazdan and screenwriter

William Goldman. Kasdan's filmography includes

writing four Star Wars films. The Empire Strikes

Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens,

and the one that I think people try to forget

about, Solo. Goldman's screenplay credits include

The Princess Bride and another notable King adaptation,

Misery. Now, Dreamcatcher was considered a box

office flop. It only grossed about $34 million

domestically against a budget of $68 million.

And it barely made its budget back once you add

in the worldwide box office, generating about

$76 million in total. The film holds an average

rating of 2 .5 on Letterboxd, and I gave it a

2 myself. So let's dive into it. The story of

Dreamcatcher centers on four childhood friends

with telepathic powers who reunite for their

annual hunting trip and encounter a parasitic

alien invasion while in the woods in Maine. It

stars Thomas Jane as Henry, Jason Lee as Beaver,

Damian Lewis as Gary Jones, aka Jonesy, and Timothy

Olyphant as Pete, with Morgan Freeman and Tom

Sizemore playing supporting roles as Curtis and

Owen, respectively. The film opens with a patient

named Barry speaking to his therapist, Henry,

about his compulsion to overeat. While Barry

speaks, Henry is doodling in his notepad seemingly

uninterested in anything Barry is saying until

he chimes in with the theory that Barry overeats

because he thinks he killed his mother and is

now eating himself to death as punishment. Now

Barry is hella shook by this because Henry goes

into even more detail about how Barry's mother

called out to him from her big wooden bed complaining

of chest pain and told him to call 911. but he

ignored it because he always did shit like that.

But Barry has never told Henry any of this, so

he runs out hysterically telling him to stop

looking in his head. But being a telepath doesn't

seem like it'd be very good for the therapy business,

because if you're able to diagnose the root cause

of their problem simply by just looking through

their repressed and subconscious thoughts, then

how much time are you cutting out of this journey

helping them to figure out what's wrong like

you're taking money out of your own pocket and

i've never been to therapy but isn't the point

of it to have people come to realizations on

their own and not just like spoon feed them what's

wrong or whatever not only Would that be a hindrance

to the process and their growth and their ability

to overcome whatever is troubling them? But if

they're not ready to hear it, as in this case

with old dude Barry, that could probably add

more problems and make things worse. But once

Barry leaves his office, Henry grabs a revolver

from his desk and holds it to his head, but the

phone rings before he can pull the trigger. And

along those lines, if you or anyone you know

is experiencing thoughts of self -harm or suicide,

please call or text 988 ASAP. You do not have

to suffer in silence and you are not alone. But

as Henry lowers the gun, it accidentally fires

and the bullet hits his framed Harvard doctoral

degree on the wall. But notably... Nobody comes

running in to see what's happening after, you

know, this loud ass gunshot popped off. So Henry

either has like a private practice with no receptionist

or no executive assistant, or he's working out

of his home office and no one's there. Perhaps

he doesn't even have a family. I think one of

the themes in Dreamcatcher, which we can talk

more about later, is isolation and like this

feeling of being trapped in particular circumstances.

So I wonder if Henry was experiencing this, which

helped lead to his suicidal ideation. And you

can draw a parallel to this feeling of isolation

or loneliness to the fact that Stephen King spent

three weeks in the hospital. After getting hit

by this car. Now, of course, I imagine his wife

and maybe other family pulled up. But no one

can stay there for the full 24 hours for three

weeks straight. So, yeah, he probably went a

little bit start crazy. But the one calling Henry

is his BFF Jonesy, saying they should link up

with their friend Duditz this weekend. Jonesy

is a college professor. He has to hang up this

call when a student comes into his office whom

he caught cheating on an exam, but he's a cool

professor. So Jonesy cuts him a break by ripping

up the exam, saying that the student was quote

unquote sick, and he can make things up by writing

a 3 ,000 word essay instead. But as he leaves,

the student asks Jonesy how he even knew that

he cheated in the first place because he wasn't

there that day. and jonesy just does his best

david blaine impression and says sometimes i

just know but this also likely means that it

wasn't just a coincidence that jonesy called

henry right before he was about to pull the trigger

now saving his life of course is a fantastic

thing however i'm not quite sure that i would

want to be friends with telepaths like if you

can read my mind at any moment of any given day

like some things just need to stay private and

personal bro like i don't want you to hear me

thinking about how i'm about to take a big ass

shit after going to fucking taco bell or something

you know what i mean like some things just need

to stay between me and myself next the audience

is introduced to pete pete is a car salesman

and he's sitting at the dealership notably by

himself so again feeding into this theme of isolation

when eventually a customer comes in saying she's

showing a house in an hour and it would bring

in a fat -ass commission but she's lost her car

keys and is wondering if Pete can make her a

spare set. He informs her that the process takes

at least a day and while explaining this he calls

her by her first name Trish even though she never

introduced herself so she's like uh what the

fuck who is this stalker? But that commission

is calling her name. So even though Pete's on

some weird shit, Trish agrees to go with him

to help retrace her steps. So they head to a

convenience store where he does another weird

thing. This finger twirling gesture that he says

helps him think, but it appears to be connected

to the whole telepathy thing somehow. And while

he's twirling his finger, which. maybe construed

as some innuendo because pete definitely has

eyes for trish here as well he starts saying

okay so you were here you bought whatever and

then you went over to the candy bars and got

a mars bar and then from there you walk to your

car and then he says hey if i am able to find

your keys will you let me buy you dinner? And

Trish agrees. When you have an opportunity, you

got to take it, bro. Shooters shoot. But next

to Trish's car is a puddle. So Pete bends down,

reaches his hand in there and pulls out her formerly

submerged keys. And he's like, all right, let's

go to dinner. There's a spot up the road that

has some good clams or something. Pretty sure

he said clams, which again, sounds like innuendo

to me. But Trish is like visibly uncomfortable

and she's like, ha ha. Yeah, I'll meet you there

at 630. Sounds good. Cool. Got bad news for you,

Pete. That dinner ain't happening, playboy. Like

based on the way that Trish peeled out of the

parking lot. All right. Literally rubber burning

out there. She has no desire to get clams with

this dude. And I guess Pete is not going to have

any clam tonight either. Sorry, bro. But if we're

keeping it a buck, how weak does your game have

to be to still find a way to fumble a baddie

when you can literally read her mind, bro? Like

the answers to the test are right in front of

your face and you still scared her off. Like,

come on now, dog. That's insane, bro. But it's

okay, P. You know who will never turn you down

for a date? Pamela Henderson. meanwhile jonesy

is getting ready to leave campus and head home

for the night when he gets a call from beaver

beaver tells jonesy to be careful but he's not

sure what exactly poses the danger jonesy starts

walking home and as he waits at a busy intersection

he appears to hear someone speak because his

head kind of tilts up and he starts looking around

and he asked the guy standing next to him did

you say something or what'd you say and the guy's

like i didn't say anything bro but then jonesy

seems to recognize someone or something across

the street he proceeds to walk into traffic and

gets absolutely demolished by a car but bro if

this movie had a 68 million dollar budget i can

tell you what they did not spend very much of

that money on and that is the special effects

because holy shit the cgi in this scene specifically

and the movie in general is just really really

bad and even allowing some grace for the fact

that this movie is now 23 years old still it

aged horribly like milk in a car on a hot summer's

day type of shit like it's bad bro but hey this

isn't last season so i'm not gonna rate it on

its special effects quality however if i were

to do so it would definitely get a one anyway

An ambulance rushes Jonesy to the hospital, but

he flatlines and has to be revived. And while

he's in this in -between state of life and death,

he sees a vision of some kid who appears to have

special needs telling him to watch out for Mr.

Gray. We then get a little time skip as we move

six months later and Jonesy, Beaver, Henry, and

Pete pull up to a cabin in the woods for their

annual bros hunting trip. And Jonesy is walking

with a very noticeable limp. And low key, this

shit is hella inconsiderate, bro. Like, your

dog just got hit six months ago by a car. in

traffic maybe even multiple cars because this

was a busy ass intersection bro and dude flatlined

had to be revived he clearly hasn't recovered

all the way or if he has then his body is clearly

permanently damaged and your response to that

is to take him out into the woods to walk on

this uneven terrain in the middle of winter when

it's cold as shit so like not only are his bones

like just hurting and aching from general movements

but now the cold is adding an extra layer to

that you have the uneven ground what if he falls

and hurts himself again or makes things worse

but then ironically they are like trying to protect

him like Jonesy goes to lift some luggage and

Beaver says hey no don't do that and then he

then Jonesy's trying to like chop up some firewood

or haul some firewood into the house and Henry's

like hey no don't do that bro I got it. If y

'all are so cognizant of his physical limitations

right now when it comes to simple tasks such

as bringing in luggage or bringing in firewood

I ask again why the fuck did you choose to go

to the woods bro? But while they're gathering

the firewood, Jonesy tells Henry that on the

night he got hit by the car, he saw their friend

Duditz on the other side of the road asking for

help while everyone around him just walked on

by and ignored him. Duditz then motioned Jonesy

to come over to him and that's why he went into

the street to get wrecked by the car. Now Duditz,

now we know he was the kid in Jonesy's ambulance

vision warning him about watching out for Mr.

Gray. Jonesy tells Henry that Duditz loves all

four of the bros and he would die before he ever

hurt them. So in that case, why would he call

him into the street to get wrecked? But the guys

all head inside the cabin and they're sitting

around the table drinking and shooting the shit

when Beaver shares some random movie trivia that

Jonesy says he's filing away in his memory warehouse.

And Beaver's like, what the fuck is that? And

Pete tells them that they all have one. It's

just this thing that's in their head. It's this

metaphysical place that Jonesy imagines as a

giant multi -floored library where he stores

all of his memories and everything he's ever

known. And he burns what he doesn't have use

for or room to keep anymore. And he also has

a place for secret memories, including a special

section on the third level for Duditz specifically.

But who exactly is Duditz? Well, cue up the flashback.

So we journey 20 years back to their hometown

in Derry and the gang are walking to an abandoned

building in hopes of confirming a rumor. Allegedly,

there's a photo of their school's homecoming

queen's punani tacked to the wall inside one

of the offices. Outside, they find a kid's shirt

and lunchbox on the ground. And they pick it

up. It's a Scooby -Doo lunchbox. And it has a

note saying that this lunchbox belongs to Douglas

Cavell. If he's lost, please bring him back to

this address. And they hear screaming coming

from around the corner. And as they go to investigate,

they see a bloodied kid in his underwear being

bullied by a few older high school kids. And

they're trying to make him eat dog shit. And

the kid who's holding the dog shit is like wearing

a glove, right? I had to rewind and pause it

just to check this. I was wondering if he was

just out here bare handing a dog turd, but no,

he had a glove on, which begs the question, how

premeditated was this? Like, did this dude specifically

pack up a bag with a glove and a dog turd from

home and just like carried it around with him

in hopes of finding someone to bully on this

day? Who does that? That's some weird ass shit,

bro. What happened to like swirlies and, you

know, giving kids wedgies or atomic wedgies?

Why are we trying to make them eat dog shit?

But Pete recognizes the main bully as their school's

starting quarterback and they threaten to snitch

on him. And the bullies buck up and they're like,

hey, you want to snitch? We'll kill you first

or some shit like that. And Henry hypes Pete

up. He's like, yo. You can try, bro. But this

is Pete Moore right here. He's the fastest motherfucker

on the planet. All we have to do is get in your

way and he'll run away to snitch and you'll never

catch him. And what follows has to be one of

the cringiest scenes in modern cinematic history

as they square off against this group of bullies.

Like, holy shit. Here are some lines from this

scene verbatim. Number one, you better watch

it. okay super threatening sure yeah if a bully

if a bully told that to me if a bully told me

you better watch it i'll be like bitch who are

you how are you bullying anybody you sound like

a fucking chump bro number two pete can fly all

right pete boy got some wheels on him he can

he can fly number three I can't catch that little

dick. Here's a bully coming to terms with his

own diminishing athletic ability. He's already

peaked in high school and now he's realizing

that he can't catch this quote unquote little

dick. Next. He's going straight to. I can't even

say this one. He's going straight to his house

to tell his mother what you did. Oh, shit, bro.

Like, that is crazy. You're going to tell someone's

mommy on them. Wow. And then finally from Beaver.

And Beaver is the smallest kid here by a wide

margin. But he's trying to buck up and act like

he wants to fight these kids. And so he says,

come on, you dickweeds. Bro, I have no clue what

a dickweed is. I have literally never heard that

insult hurled at anyone outside of this movie.

If someone called me a dickweed, I wouldn't even

know how to respond or react. I would just stand

there in confusion. So I guess that's one way

to defuse a bullying situation. Just call them

a name they've never heard before and run away

while they're pondering what that means. But

quarterback Willie decides that the juice is

not worth the squeeze, so he and his lackeys

all slink away, leaving Beaver, Pete, Henry,

and Jonesy to console this kid who's crying and

beat the fuck up on the ground. And he seems

to be inconsolable until Beaver begins singing

to him, and this calms him down immediately.

And this kid is Douglas, but he pronounces his

name like Duditz. So they call him Duditz. And

I wonder if this movie had been released in like

the 2020s, how long would it have taken for it

to be canceled? Because Duditz clearly has mental

challenges. He has special needs. So his name

is Douglas, but he cannot pronounce it as such.

He can only say Duditz. So for the kid to then

take that as his name. and keep that shit for

him for like the next 20 years bro that's that's

great that's crazy but hey it could be worse

you know they could have called him dickweed

anyway back in present day beaver and jonesy

are out hunting in the woods when jonesy spots

another hunter who's stumbling around looking

all dazed and disoriented And being the good

dude that he is, Jonesy goes up to this guy and

is like, hey, buddy, do you need some help? And

this hunter tells Jonesy that his name is Rick

and that he's been lost in the woods since the

day before. So Jonesy brings him back to the

cabin to nurse him back to health. Gives him

soup, gives him some blankets. And as a show

of gratitude. Rick rips a big ass belch right

in Jonesy's face. And apparently it smelled like

straight ass based on Jonesy's reaction. And

Rick says, oh, oops, I've been doing that all

night because he ate some berries in the dark

and they must have upset his stomach. Let's unpack

that for a second. Now, I am by no means a. botanist

or a horticulturist or whatever term or phrase

you want to use but i don't think that many if

any berries are going to grow in the woods in

the dead of winter while covered in snow so to

stumble upon some berries in the dark makes me

think that those probably weren't berries But

speaking of eating, Pete and Henry are not at

the cabin because they went to the store for

supplies. And so now that they're driving back,

Henry tells Pete that he saw a picture in the

paper of the patient Barry from the opening scene.

It's his obituary. Barry has eaten himself to

death. And I think it's interesting that the

only times food is mentioned in this film is

in a negative light. Whether it's Barry eating

himself to death or Rick eating those berries

in the woods. Oh, and that's a Barry and Barry

connection. Interesting. And I think there's

a direct correlation between this negative view

of food and the fact that Stephen King was hospitalized

for three weeks and on Oxy to manage his pain

after being hit by the car. So one of the side

effects of Oxy is reduced appetite. So if we

make the assumption that Stephen King wasn't

able to eat very much while he was hospitalized

or didn't have a desire to eat, at least, then

the character of Barry, who has a compulsion

to overeat, could be a direct reflection of King's

desires or, you know, wishing that he could be

eating something and not just feeling like shit.

Other side effects of taking Oxy can include

unusual breath odors and constipation. So if

Barry's overeating kind of symbolizes King's

fantasy of wishing he could just gorge himself

but is unable to, then Rick's predicament could

represent Stephen King's reality. But Beaver

returns to the cabin and meets Rick and he introduces

himself as Joe. Beaver is just his nickname because

he compulsively chews on toothpicks all the time.

But bro, this man Rick is going through it. His

guts are bubbling hard. He's belching and just

ripping ass all while sweaty as fuck. I know

it smells crazy in there. Oh my god. I can't

even imagine, bro. But Jonesy has been taking

peeks at Rick's body while he's doing all this

weird ass shit. And when he first arrived, his

chest looks swollen. Now that swelling has somehow

migrated down to his belly. Big red flag there.

And Jonesy suggests that Rick go and lie down

for a nap. I wonder whose bed. I wonder whose

bed he sent him to. like imagine if you're peter

henry and you return to the cabin and just see

some random dudes sleeping in your bed while

farting all over the all over your pillow and

shit like that would be insane but as jonesy

and beaver get rick situated in bed they turn

to leave the room and we the audience see rick's

belly move like something is inside of it yikes

Meanwhile there's a blizzard starting up outside

and Pete and Henry are still trying to make their

way back to the cabin. Completely unaware that

once they walk through those doors they're going

to be at high risk of contracting pink eye because

of all the doo -doo particles floating around.

Henry has to gun the truck to get up this increasingly

snowy hill and when he does he sees that there's

a hunter sitting down right in the middle of

the road. so he swerves to avoid pancaking this

person and he and pete crash into a fallen tree

flipping the car like five times but they're

both relatively okay pete's leg got a little

bit messed up but nothing's broken Pete and Henry

walk over to confront the hunter and they notice

that she seems to be in a pretty similar condition

as Rick. She belches and it smells like ass plus

there's this weird red mark on her neck and she

tells them that she has to find Rick. As soon

as Henry saw that red mark though the doctor

in him kicked in and he was like hey fuck that

and he backed up immediately. Back at the cabin,

Jonesy and Beaver are sitting at the table just

thinking about all this weird stuff that's going

on. And Rick has a red mark on the side of his

face as well that's gotten bigger since his arrival.

And while Jonesy is talking about all of this,

Beaver is eating like big globs of peanut butter

out of the jar with his finger, which was fucking

disgusting, bro. I have a problem with like communal

food. That shit grosses me out. Potlucks and

like buffets and shit that just sits out that

anyone can just get in and touch on and breathe

on and cough on. I cannot stand any of those

kind of functions. Pass. Hard pass. Beaver and

Jonesy start to hear this commotion and they

look outside the window and they see that there's

a mass exodus of literally every woodland creature.

They're all just walking in the same direction,

prey and predator alike, away from something

deeper in the woods. And you can tell this is

like an older movie, pre -social media takeoff,

pre -influencer culture, because nobody took

out a cell phone to start filming all this shit.

It was very refreshing to see. And Jonesy notices

that as these animals are running away, some

of them have some red stuff on their fur that

looks pretty similar to the red shit on Rick's

face. Helicopters then fly in from the same direction

the animals were coming from, and they tell Jonesy

and Beaver that the area is under temporary,

temporary, I'm hunting wabbits, temporary quarantine.

These dudes are definitely military, and here's

where we get our first glimpse of Morgan Freeman,

aka Colonel Curtis, in one of the choppers. Jonesy

and Beaver are trying to flag them down to get

them to fly Rick out of here and get him some

medical attention, but they're like, nah, fuck

that, and fly off. So, they go back inside the

cabin, feeling weird and not liking the whole

thing with the mass exodus. Well, things get

even weirder. when they notice a trail of blood

leading from the bedroom where Rick was to the

bathroom. They knock on the bathroom door and

ask if he's okay. My guess is probably not, considering

the 10 foot long trail of blood that he left

behind. But Rick, always the optimist, says,

hey, I'm just a little sick, fellas. Just need

to make a little room. My boy, what kind of shit

are you dropping that causes you to leave a trail

of blood? There is literally blood spilling out

of your asshole. They see it in the bed. The

bed is soaked with booty hole blood. The floor

is covered in it. And all you need to do is just

make a little bit of room. Okay. The bathroom

door is locked and Jonesy and Beaver are like,

okay, like we have to get in here. So they break

it down and they come slipping and sliding straight

into a bloodbath. There's blood smeared all over

the place. There's like this like weird red kind

of like fungus looking shit. And Rick is sitting

motionless on the toilet with half of his face

covered in that weird red fungus. And they hear

something plop into the toilet. Rick is unresponsive

when Jonesy calls to him and Beaver's like, bro,

like, no, he just took a big ass shit. Like I

heard it plop down and clink in there. And Jonesy's

like, I don't know, bro. Something seems weird

here. So Beaver goes over and he pushes Rick

and Rick tumbles over and his asshole is just

like completely blown out, son. So Beaver goes

to peek into the toilet and Jonesy being the

smart one of the two is like, yo, hold on now.

And he closes the lid right as something bangs

into it. And then Beaver sits on the lid to hold

it down. So now they're just like, yo, what the

fuck is going on here? Beaver is stressing, bro.

So he takes out and opens his jar of toothpicks.

But when he does so, whatever's in the toilet

hits the lid again and causes him to spill the

toothpicks all over the bloody floor. Jonesy

comes up with a plan for them to switch places

so that Beaver can run out to the shed. and grab

tape to wrap around the toilet to keep the lid

shut. But Beaver says, nah, just in case the

toilet thing escapes somehow, Jonesy probably

wouldn't be able to fight it off with his bad

hip. So Jonesy leaves and Beaver sits here on

toilet lid duty. And he's looking around the

bathroom and he spots two clean toothpicks that

are falling on one floor tile without blood or

that red fungus on it. And this motherfucker

repeatedly leans over trying to grab them. And

every single time he shifts his weight and lifts

up a little bit, this fucking thing in the toilet

hits the lid and threatens to escape. Yet his

compulsion is so strong that he keeps trying

over and over and over again. Well, eventually

he leans too far and out pops what Stephen King

describes in the novel as a shit weasel. It looks

like some big ass worm with eyes on the side

of its head and this long vertical mouth lined

with these razor sharp teeth. To put it bluntly,

this thing is ugly as fuck and the CGI being

so poor doesn't do it any favors either, but

it attacks Beaver. It ends up biting off his

fingers and is trying to bite off his face when

Jonesy runs in. The shit weasel turns his attention

to Jonesy and Beaver seeing what's about to happen

decides to make that noble sacrifice. He grabs

onto the weasel and tells Jonesy to run away

and shut the door and Jonesy just stands there

shitting his pants and does neither thing. This

time the weasel is successful in biting off Beaver's

face while Jonesy watches. It then lunges at

him and now Jonesy decides it's the time to close

the door. And as he struggles to keep the weasel

from opening it, because apparently it understands

how door handles work, the handle ends up breaking

off and the door slowly swings open. This was

actually a decently tense scene until the awful

CGI once again ruined everything, but... A shadow

falls upon Jonesy and as he slowly turns around

and looks up at something that towers over him

the shit weasel slithers between his feet and

ends up perched upon the shoulder of some big

headass alien. And as the alien and Jonesy kind

of stare at each other the alien then pops and

becomes like a bunch of red spores that Jonesy

inhales. But it looks like those berries that

Rick ate in the dark weren't berries after all,

but instead eggs of some alien ass worm. Pretty

awkward. But dog, I don't know which one is worse.

Like if we look at the alien franchise, right?

And having the alien burst out of your chest,

well, getting infested. To begin with, you have

the facehugger that just like comes down your

throat. That's pretty bad, but at least bursting

through your chest, I would imagine would be

more of an instantaneous death than having a

space worm eat its way out of your asshole. That

just seems long, drawn out, and excruciating.

But you do save yourself of having the alien

jizz dump down your throat. So I probably would

choose that avenue if I was forced to. But obviously,

neither situation is ideal. But I think these

shit weasels are supposed to symbolize, like,

literal shit. Like, if the oxy pills are supposed

to represent the, like, the egg. Right. Like

the egg is the vector through which these weasels

get introduced. So the egg or the pill then leads

to constipation or incubation in the movie and

eventually leads to a giant ass worm ripping

its way out of your booty hole, which if you're

constipated, you might feel like you would rather

have that happen. then just sit in your stomach

all impacted and shit. So yeah, I think while

Stephen King was high as a kite on these pills,

he was thinking, man, I wish I could take a massive

shit right now. But what if that shit had eyes

and razor sharp teeth? But again, I know it just

smelled crazy in there, bro. That, oh my God,

I can't. I can't even think about that. It makes

me like want to gag. Anyway, the choppers end

up flying back to their base camp. So at this

military camp, these soldiers are rounding up

people with the red fungus growing on them. And

they dub it Ripley after Sigourney Weaver's character

in Alien. And Colonel Curtis is given the lay

of the land to a second in command, Owen, played

by Tom Sizemore. And they are getting ready to

launch Operation Blue Boy. And Owen has been

made Blue Boy leader. So the Blue Boy group is

the special unit that only goes after extraterrestrials.

And Curtis has headed this unit for the past

25 years. But this Operation Blue Boy is going

to be his final one. After this, he's going to

retire and hand the reins over to Owen. But at

the moment, their plan is to eradicate all infected

animals and detain infected civilians until they

learn more information. Apparently, there are

about 100 aliens who appear to crash land here

because they haven't previously appeared in this

wooded kind of terrain or in cold weather locations.

But Curtis knows the aliens will try to get out

of their quarantine and spread the infection.

He says they've never visited a world they wouldn't

rather own. Hmm. On one hand, this definitely

describes like the biological imperative of parasites,

right? Just take over as much as possible and

see what happens. Have fun from there. But also

we got to keep in mind the time at which this

movie was released. It came out in 2003, right

in the heat of the war on terror. So there could

be some political statements or political ideologies

attached to this dialogue as well. So they've

never visited a world they wouldn't rather own.

This sounds like imperialism to me. And the fact

that Bush went in trying to get that oil, allegedly,

would also seem to fall under, you know, this

kind of thinking. Owen then tells Curtis that

their higher -ups feel differently about destroying

the Ripley and they argue that the fungus doesn't

take root in all victims and that some people

simply get over it. They also theorize that the

shit weasels only grow in a small percentage

of the exposed population, but Curtis does not

want to hear any of that shit. He wants to eradicate

anything exposed to the Ripley. human or not

and make sure it has no chance of spreading here

is where i think that theme of isolation and

loneliness comes back into play so curtis he's

a little bit crazy let's let's get that out the

way after 25 years of hunting down aliens and

just having to lie to all of his closest friends

family loved ones whomever about what it is that

he actually does having to lie about the existence

of these extraterrestrial beings that he knows

are very much real that could probably lead to

a feeling of loneliness and isolation and then

on top of that to then have his second in command

the person that he feels is closest to him at

least professionally as well as all of his higher

ups not being supportive of his plan to contain

this infection or reduce the risk of it, you

know, getting out of quarantine and taking over

the world. I think this causes him to have a

little bit of a me against the world kind of

mentality. And this is why I say he's a little

bit cray cray, because if you feel like it's

you against the world because people. won't support

the fact that you want to wipe out innocent lives

and civilians then yeah i think they kind of

have a point bro you gotta you gotta chill out

a little bit but to really drive home just how

unhinged curtis is he calls one of his blue boy

soldiers into his command trailer and he's interrogating

him about how this soldier who like works at

a checkpoint let a couple of people through without

really checking them and the guy's like nah like

i checked them they're clear of the rickley whatever

so curtis is like okay hold your hand up and

swear that that's the truth and the dude does

that well curtis thinks he's lying so he shoots

him shoots him in the hand and like blows half

that shit off and And then he gives that pistol

that he just used to blow a dude's hand off with

to Owen as a gift. Like, congratulations on your

impending promotion to taking over this unit.

Here's a gun that I just maimed somebody with.

And side note, Morgan Freeman is definitely like

the biggest bright spot in this movie. He carries

this shit, dog. Like, he plays unhinged. really

well so that was that was cool to see reminded

me of like denzel in training day like you don't

typically see you know these kind of what's the

word i'm looking for they have like a certain

aura around them right they're just like sophisticated

classy elevated dudes so to see morgan freeman

step outside of that and play this menacing character

You know, demonstrating that range. I thought

that was pretty cool. But back at the car crash

site, Pete, Henry and the hunter post up and

build a fire. They're nine miles from the cabin.

So Henry says he'll walk it and bring back the

snowmobile to come get Pete and the hunter. And

she has a swollen, moving belly and is ripping

ass like crazy. So we know what's about to happen

here. Right before they crashed, Pete had opened

up a six -pack and was in the process of downing

a beer and Henry had kind of looked at him a

little bit sideways because it was early as fuck.

And Pete was like, well, you know, it's five

o 'clock somewhere. So it's heavily implied.

I don't think they actually say it explicitly,

but it's heavily implied that Pete is an alcoholic.

So when Henry leaves and starts his walking journey,

Pete goes back to the red car and grabs the booze.

And when he returns, the hunter is laying on

the ground as if asleep. Now, Pete's kind of

waxing poetically to himself about how this lady

has been dropping bombs and shit. And he is killing

these beers. There are just bottles littered

around him. The camera pans behind the hunter

and we see that her booty hole is also blown

out like good old Rick and there's a bloody trail

leading away from it into the snow but Pete is

oblivious and also hammered. So drunk ass Pete

is talking to this sleeping hunter about how

Duditz gave the group their psychic abilities.

His theory is that Duditz is an alien who came

here to prepare them for something. He's talking

about this while the shit weasel slowly circles

him using the snow banks as cover. He gets up

to go take a piss right where the weasel is lurking

and it lunges at him. It latches onto his dick

and he has to like hump the fire to get it off.

Then it lunges at him again and wraps around

his neck and face and he has to use a piece of

wood that he grabbed from the fire as a torch.

and burn this thing off of his face and he burns

his face in the process as well and it's one

thing for all this to happen but bro can you

imagine this happening while you were completely

plastered that is insane and while pete is trying

to navigate having his dick chewed on having

his face burned and also probably having the

spins from being wasted Jonesy pulls up on him

on a snowmobile. But it's not really Jonesy.

Jonesy has been possessed by the alien, Mr. Gray.

And he had taken that snowmobile and passed Henry

along the way, actually. But Henry was able to

sense the danger telepathically and realizes

that that wasn't actually Jonesy. So he hides

off on the side of the road as Mr. Gray speeds

by. And Jonesy's consciousness is still in there.

He's hiding out. in his memory warehouse and

Mr. Gray has access to the warehouse but not

to the room where Jonesy keeps his secret files

and that's where Jonesy's consciousness is hiding

out. Pete can also sense that Jonesy is not really

Jonesy so Mr. Gray chokes him telekinetically

but Jonesy gets him to stop that by telling Pete

to tell Mr. Gray what he wants to know. So Pete

does his little finger trick in the air and this

little wavy kind of bubbly trail pops up from

his finger pointing the way to where Mr. Gray

wants to go. And he makes Pete come along and

be his navigator. And Jonesy is watching everything

from inside his locked room in his mind as Mr.

Gray tries to get inside. So he's just a passenger

in his own body. That feeling of isolation, of

loneliness, of relative... that powerlessness

that feeling of your body not being able to do

what you wanted to do not being able to control

it the way you used to all things that i think

reflect stephen king's state while he lied up

in that hospital bed and the fact that jonesy

was hit by a car and broke his hip we can really

see those parallels there Henry finishes making

his miraculous nine mile trek through the middle

of a blizzard back to the cabin and discovers

that the Ripley has completely overrun the place.

He sees something kind of like pulsing and he

puts his face right next to it. So I guess all

that doctor caution has now gone out the window.

And he discovers Beaver's corpse and sheds a

few tears. Then he has a vision of Jonesy getting

possessed. But the icing on top of this shitty

cake is that Henry finds that shit weasel from

before, Rick's shit weasel, on the bed laying

a clutch of eggs, bro. Fuck that. That is absolutely

unhinged. Hell no. Hell no, but Henry, when he

had walked into the cabin, he'd picked up his

hunting rifle from behind the door so he has

that on him and he's able to shoot and kill the

shit weasel. He then grabs some lighter fluid

to torch the eggs and discovers a second clutch

behind the pillow on the bed that had already

hatched and these little worms come swarming

at him. But he manages to stomp some and torch

them and burn the whole cabin down. Worst bros

trip ever. But then the blue boy strike operation

gets underway. Curtis and Owen, they chopper

to the crash site of the alien ship. And as they

approach, the aliens speak to them telepathically

in these helpless voices, essentially begging

for mercy, saying there's no infection. Please

don't hurt them, etc. But these boys said, fuck

it. And they go bombs away. They're dropping

mad missiles. They have machine guns. They're

lighting these aliens up. But a few of them manage

to evade all the bullets and missiles and engage

the self -destruct feature on their mothership.

And that takes out all the remaining aliens as

well as a few of the choppers. And if Curtis

is lying before about wanting to own everything.

possibly refer to imperialism and or the war

on terror i think this scene right here removes

any doubt whatsoever like we have literal suicide

bombers hiding behind the innocent voices of

what sounds like women and children saying please

don't hurt us the fact that these bomber aliens

can hide out amongst their less hostile counterparts

brings us back to curtis's position the fact

that he thinks Everyone infected with Ripley

must be eliminated because he can't risk it spreading

outside of the containment zone. And as he states

this to Owen, Owen is hesitant. He cites studies

that show a strong possibility of recovery for

victims. At least half of the subjects showed

signs of recovery. But Curtis's point is how

can you tell which half will recover? What if

someone shows signs of recovery but is still

infectious? and spreads it to their family and

beyond. His biggest fear is that an alien hitchhiker

will be able to break containment, aka exactly

what Mr. Gray is trying to accomplish. And Mance

is trying hard. He is really locked in. When

he first took over Jonesy's body, I think he

was kind of awestruck a little bit with this

whole sensation and whatnot. So his personality

was kind of... Kind of chill, kind of happy -go

-lucky, but that has all flipped. Pete is not

being very cooperative when it comes to navigating

Mr. Gray to where he wants to go, so Mr. Gray

responds by morphing into his alien form and

eating Pete, biting him in half. Pete tells him

to bite his sack, and Mr. Gray says, okay, I'll

bite your sack, and a whole lot more. And yeah,

R .I .P. Pete. Mr. Gray ends up reaching the

main road and he flags down a truck that's heading

for Blue Base. And this truck driver has a German

Shepherd with him. Well, Mr. Gray kills the soldier

and in the back are a bunch of corpses of aliens

and infected animals. And Mr. Gray encourages

the dog to eat these things. And it does. After

Curtis and Owen finish their discussion about

wiping out these innocent civilians, Owen exits

the command trailer and walks by the detainment

area. And who does he see standing there? Henry.

Henry had been picked up earlier while trying

to leave the quarantine zone. And when he sees

Owen coming, Henry immediately launches into

a telepathic guilt trip. He's like, hey, what

would your wife and kid think about what you're

doing out here, bro? And he calls them by their

names. He's like, hey, don't you carry a picture

of your dead daddy in your wallet all the time?

What was that motto that he had about saving

people's lives? And Henry knows Owen has been

thinking about calling the big general that oversees

Curtis in this whole operation to put a stop

to all this shit. So he's like, yeah, bro, go

ahead and do that. Call General Matheson. But

also. that hitchhiker you're so worried about

there is one out there and he's got my best friend

in the whole wide world owen doesn't take much

convincing he already was feeling like curtis

was off his rocker especially after he shot off

old dude's hand but definitely now that he's

talking about wiping out all these innocent people

so he does put in the call to general matheson

who sends his troops in to relieve Curtis of

command. So they roll in and they squash the

blue unit's operation as Owen busts Henry out

of detainment and they drive off. And Curtis

witnesses this and he's like, all right, Owen,

you want to play it like that? Bet. And little

sidebar, in the actual Dreamcatcher novel, Curtis's

character is actually Colonel Kurtz, not Curtis.

They changed it in the movie for some reason.

But if an insane colonel named Kurtz sounds familiar

to you, that may be because that is awfully similar

to the plot of Apocalypse Now. So it seems like

Stephen King drew some inspiration from there.

But as Henry and Owen are on the road, Owen pulls

out his pistol, the one that he got as a gift

from Curtis. And Henry is like, oh, wow, cool

pistol, bro. Can I see that? And Owen hands it

over. But first he pops out the clip. And Henry's

like, man, if only there was some way to make

contact with Jonesy. And as he said that, the

pistol begins to ring. So Henry is talking on

his pistol phone to Jonesy from his little hidden

office in his memory warehouse. And Jonesy tells

him that Mr. Gray is trying to get to Massachusetts,

but Henry should first head to Derry to go get

duddits because for some reason, Mr. Gray is

afraid of him. Owen wonders how Jonesy can even

still be alive after having his body taken over

by Mr. Gray. And Henry posits that Jonesy is

somehow immune to the Ripley's effects because

technically he died. His heart stopped twice

after he got hit by that car. And he has a realization

set in that Dudit saw all this coming from the

jump. We get a flashback to when they're kids

again and the boys and Duditz are looking for

a missing girl named Josie. Henry's like, we

have to save the girl. And Duditz is like, you

mean save the world? And he's like, no, save

the girl. And then Duditz is like, oh, from Mr.

Gray? And they're like, bro, what are you talking

about right now? But now, 20 years later, he's

like, oh, shit. Duditz can see the future, bro.

He knew what was going to happen. Crazy. But

while they're getting ready to go look for Josie,

they all stand around in a circle with Duditz

in the middle and they focus on Josie finding

her, just thinking about her. And Duditz seems

to grant them their telepathic powers during

this little circle session. Henry also recollects

how Jonesy had told him that Duditz was the one

that called him into the street the night that

he got hit by the car. Essentially, Dennis has

been planning this from the very beginning. He

wanted Jonesy to die and be revived, serving

as the perfect kind of host vessel for Mr. Gray

because he would be immune to being taken over

completely and they would be able to track Mr.

Gray's whereabouts and his motives from there.

Which, if we're being honest, is kind of fucked

up. You know what I mean? Hey, I know you guys

saved me from being bullied and like being forced

to eat a piece of dog shit. So as thanks, I'm

going to lure you into the street to be hit by

a car, have your hip broken and shattered into

many pieces to the point that you can never walk

normally again. But don't worry. It's all for

the greater good, which is allowing you to be

taken over by an alien. Watching as your body

is utilized to eat one of your best friends after

seeing your other best friend get killed by a

shit weasel. And then having to witness as your

body is used to kill a soldier and feed a dog

parasitic alien intestines to, what, attempt

to destroy the world? With friends like these,

who needs enemies? But Henry and Owen pull up

to Duditz's house, and his mom is already standing

on the porch waiting for them, saying, Duditz,

New Year is coming, and he's already packed up,

ready to go. And this is when we see Duditz for

the first time, or adult Duditz for the first

time, who's played by Donnie Wahlberg. And bro

is not... And he's not looking the best. He has

leukemia. So his mom packs up his Scooby Doo

lunchbox with his medications and the boys hit

the road. What an absolutely absurd setup. So

you have a an AWOL military guy riding around

with a depressed doctor and in the backseat is

a mentally challenged. terminally ill dude with

the Scooby -Doo lunchbox and you have to shoot

him up with cancer meds while you're riding around

trying to save the world from an alien invasion?

And to add a little bit more fun to the party,

while they're getting ready to roll out, it's

revealed to the audience that Owen's pistol secretly

contains a tracking chip. That Curtis boy, he

really is paranoid, huh? Although does it qualify

as paranoia if your fears turn out to be proven

correct? Anyway, back at the military base, General

Matheson pulls up to Curtis's command trailer

and is like, hey, time to step down, buddy. And

Curtis is like, all right, man, it's gonna be

like an hour to wrap up some things here. And

then, you know, I will retire and we can move

on. And Matheson's like, OK, that's fine. But.

I don't know why he would believe this man because

he clearly has never demonstrated any signs of

cooperation before. So why would he start now?

So Curtis just steals a chopper armed with a

machine gun on his nose and flies off heading

to Owen's location. Meanwhile, Duditz has super

telepathy and he's able to deduce or obtain Mr.

Gray's master plan. He wants to go to the reservoir

that supplies all the drinking water for Boston

and release shit weasel babies into it. And all

it would take is one single worm to get into

that water supply to doom the entire world. Mr.

Gray is already pretty far ahead of these guys,

especially since they had to stop in Derry to

go pick up dudits. And his shit weasel is being

grown in the dog that he made eat those alien

remains. So that dog's guts are bubbling, boy.

Things aren't looking good. But don't worry,

when your face was such impossible odds, there's

always plot armor to the rescue. And Mr. Gray's

truck blows a tire, so he has to wait for another

car to show up before continuing on his way,

which buys the guy some time to catch up. After

arriving at the reservoir, Mr. Gray is trying

to pry open the manhole cover to the water supply,

but he's having trouble getting leverage because

of Jonesy's damaged hip. Look at Duditz playing

chess, not checkers, bro. Owen, Henry, and Deditz

arrive not long after and Owen pulls out an SMG

and tells the other two to wait in the car while

he goes to finish business. He plans to merc

Mr. Gray and Jonesy. Ah, but wait, Curtis has

FOMO, so he pulls up in his chopper with its

front mounted machine gun and opens fire on Owen.

But bro, tell me why. Tell me why this motherfucker

just stands still. stands still shooting back

at the chopper like how about making yourself

a more difficult target there buddy the chopper

literally just shoots in a straight line so so

owen ends up getting hit and then he runs out

of ammo in the smg so he switches to the pistol

that curtis gave him and he's able to shoot out

the chopper's tail rotor causing it to crash

and explode and then owen dies from his hella

avoidable gunshot wound but a couple of things

here one the irony that curtis was killed by

his own weapon is incredibly rich but number

two owen was kind of the only character that

didn't really seem to have like any like glaring

issues like the guys they had depression alcoholism

you know a fucked up hip duditz has cancer and

his mental challenges Owen was just kind of a

regular dude he had a family he had a wife he

enjoyed his job all that stuff and he wasn't

like crazy like Kurtz he knew like right from

wrong he had a a morality line that he wasn't

going to cross and he still ended up dying in

the snow all alone isolated feeling like everybody

else did so if you want to take it like a like

a bleak look at things it's like no matter what

we all end up in the same position dead and alone

which is hella fucking dark bro but anyway back

to cheerier topics like that whole alien invasion

thing Mr. Gray manages to get the manhole cover

off the water supply right as the dog's shit

weasel is born. But Henry, now armed with Owen's

reloaded SMG, shows up in the nick of time and

starts shooting at it. But first, he misses every

single shot. I mean, this dude could have thrown

a rock into the ocean and somehow managed to

miss all of the water. But don't worry, because

the plot armor is here to bail him out yet again.

The weasel lunges at him and latches onto the

barrel of the gun so then he's able to shoot

it off that way. But one single egg rolls out

of its carcass and hatches. But Henry and Jonesy

are in a standoff because Henry's not sure if

he's actually talking to Jonesy or if it's Mr.

Grey just impersonating Jonesy. So he's kind

of absorbing and trying to come to terms with

the fact that he may have to kill his best friend

in the entire world. And I got some vibes here

that were a little bit more than platonic. I

have a theory that at least some amount of Henry's

depression can be attributed to the fact that

he harbors unrequited love for Jonesy. But he's

not willing to give up on his boo yet. So he

gives him the classic tell me something only

we would know quiz. And Jonesy is about to give

the correct answer when Duditz makes his heroic

entrance and finishes a sentence for him, followed

by, Hello, Mr. Gray. This causes Mr. Gray to

exit Jonesy's body and reveal himself in his

full, monstrous, true form. He's basically a

giant shitweasel with legs. And Mr. Gray stabs

his tail through Duditz's chest and goes to kill

Henry next. But his tail is stuck and Duditz

isn't dead. Manz then turns into some different

kind of alien and grows a tail of his own and

stabs Mr. Gray through the back of his dome.

Why do all these aliens have all these like sharp

tails, bro? I don't know. Anyway, he does some

other alien shit that causes like a membrane

or something to like envelop both of them before

self -destructing, which in turn kills Mr. Gray.

As Henry and Jonesy exchange those, wow, we barely

made it, bro, looks at each other, the little

baby worm that hatched from the egg is about

to jump into the open manhole until Jonesy stomps

on it right at the last second and they smirk

at each other. Roll credits. So yay for friendship.

It saved the world. All it took was sacrificing

60 % of the friend group. And I think even Mr.

Gray, was dealing with these feelings of isolation

too so with this alien ship crash landing on

earth and only a hundred of them being there

it's not made clear if this was just like a scouting

party or if this was like the last remnants of

this alien civilization and they were coming

to earth to take over it and repopulate their

ranks if the latter case is true or what's accurate

then that would make Mr. Gray, he would have

been the last survivor of his entire species

once their ship self -destructed. So for him,

his goal was just trying to reproduce as many

of his beings as possible. So in that regard,

you know, I'm not saying he's like a sympathetic

figure or a tragic figure, but there is, I think,

at least... a semblance of understanding when

it comes to not wanting to be the only one of

your kind in existence. And I could also better

understand why Stephen King doesn't like this

book very much. If you look at it through a certain

lens, it can seem very dark. And if he did write

this in a dark place, which seems pretty likely,

being hospitalized in excruciating pain for three

weeks, Um, then yeah, you, one may not want to

revisit that point of their life. So it makes

sense to me, but I enjoyed the book when I first

read it. I haven't read it since then. Uh, probably

should give it a reread. I like to kind of keep

things like in a little time capsule just so

I can always cherish that particular moment.

I feel like if I were to reread it today, I might

not like it as much. So yeah, we'll see. But

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see you in two weeks for the next Stephen King

adaptation. But in the meantime, remember, always

keep it spooky.

Poop Goes the Weasel (Dreamcatcher)

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