Watching Law and Order Criminal Intent Season 2 episode 15 and the first scene is Adam Storke drinking coffee- It's weird to see him on a regular TV show

I’m having trouble finding how many comics they actually made for The Stand and was wondering if anybody knows the correct chronological order to buy them in. I see on eBay people have different collections of them but I wanna buy them all at once I’d rather read all of them or none of them. Thanks!

As I say I’ve just started reading the stand (I’ve just started chapter 7) been putting it off for some time because of how daunting it was to delve into such a large piece of work. Thoroughly enjoying it so far and find myself anxiously excited to pick back up from where I left off the night before.

However there’s a question that’s been lingering in my mind since a few chapters in which I can’t quite understand, not sure if it gets revealed further into the book, but if so please just let me know it does rather than spoil it for me. I would have waited until I got further in myself but at this point in the book I feel like the origins of the virus will likely not be explored any further.

In the labs of project blue it seems like the superflu swept through the labs killing the staff there extremely quickly if not instantly, obvious examples of this are the guy who dies whilst eating his soup, the naked couple who decided to have sex before they died and the man who created a make shift sign saying “now you know it works” around his neck. Compare this to the deaths seen by pretty much every other victim that I’ve seen so far and they seem to succumb to the virus much slower that those at project blue, taking at quickest about forty eight hours or so to die?

Why is there such a dramatic difference between the times of death of lab group and the general population after it leaks? Is it ever explained or is there any speculation to this end?

I started reading The Stand at the beginning of this year, but the slow pacing in the first several chapters bored me into putting it down. Just decided to pick it back up again and resume where I left off at chapter 8, and I gotta say I’m loving this chapter. King is so in depth with who gets infected when. And the hints at where these people live and what they do for work is really getting me going. Harry Trent gets infected by Joe Bob and then goes and infects 40 others, including Edward M. Norris who undoubtedly goes back to work in New York and infects countless others while just trying to do his job. All of that info just gets me so excited to the chaos that is to come. And the lines that King includes about unknowingly signing someone’s death warrant among others is really just something special. I can see why people love King’s books so much.

Edit: Reading further into the chapter, I’m starting to think Mr. Norris may not even make it back into work. But the stops on the way home is building more anticipation and I’m still loving it.

Context: this is an interview with the 2020 series director Josh Boone about how excited he is to work on The Stand and he says “ We plan to bring you the ultimate version of King’s masterwork “. Yeah your series was the opposite of ultimate buddy 😂

First watch and it's surprisingly good! Nothing can beat the good ol imagination however they did a solid adaptation for the time. The cast did a great job of bringing iconic characters to life.

I'll probably watch the 2020 one next even though I've heard terrible things about it lol

Isn’t the 1994 version such a good retelling. I’ve watched it a few times and I can’t stand to watch the new version. It’s such a good retelling. Makes me so sad Amazon ruin these shows, they did the same with wheel of time. The only one I can think of they did justice to was the expanse. I just don’t want them to butcher any more of my favourite books.

Here’s a photo of me and Ed Harris. Your move, Stan(d)s.

I can’t find it and I’m not even sure it was on this sub, but it was a very nice story and I’d like to read it again. The Automod keeps deleting my request for y’all’s help, because I’m not using enough words, so I’m going to just go on here for a while, I’d really like to read the story again, it was very interesting. I think the country was Peru, but I’m not 100% there. I remember the last day he was there he had to read to them for a very long time, like 8 hours, to get them to the end. Let’s see if that enough words.

As we all know Captain Tripps killed 99.4% of humanity. Since the story takes place only a month after the plague, the die off of the survivors is only beginning. This leaves about 25 million alive in the story. Over time, things like starvation, exposure, diseases, and lawlessness is going to kill a lot of the survivors. My reasonable estimate is that there will be 5-10 million left by the time the next decade rolls around. That is stone age level populations.

How different would the story be if Captain Trips killed 90% of humanity? Lets assume instead of having a 99.4% infection rate, it has a 90% one. This leaves 10% of humanity immune and survivors being around 450-800 million depending on when it happened. That is a far greater population compared to 20 million. This also makes rebuilding a civilization a lot easier.

This hand written sign hung outside the doors to radiology in the Vermont hospital. Stu passed by it during his escape. Its interesting that King would add this specifically using Randalls name but I don’t recall it ever coming up again. Im on my third read through so feel free to add spoiler filled responses. Is it just for the reader? We notice it and makes us wonder if hes near?

I truly don’t get how they managed to screw up such great source material when they had plenty of time to get it right through 9 episodes when the superior original had 4

A lot of the casting is just awful, I can’t stand the actors who play Ratwoman and Lloyd Henried, not that that’s their fault, but you could see it in their faces that they thought what they were doing was good acting. Don’t even get me started on Ezra Miller and Amber Heard. Not only are they terrible people in real life, neither of them can act for sh!t. There’s a lot of other miscasted characters, but I’m going to get off that subject.

The non chronological timeline was annoying and added nothing useful to the story, they rushed to almost everything to get to the climax. New Vegas was all wrong, it was no orgy party full of drugs. Flagg’s Vegas had rules where you couldn’t do that stuff and you had to work hard in order to live in Vegas, but apparently in this series, they can do just whatever they want. Larry and Rey die on their knees, when the whole point of the book is to go die making their stand.

What really annoys the crap out of me is all the interviews with Josh Boone and Benjamin Cavell, the writers of the series kept saying that they’re such big fans of the book and that their series is amazing, no, your series was not amazing and if you were such big fans of the book, why did you make such a crap series?

Hey all, new watcher here. I didn’t know there was a book series so I’ll be finding those audiobooks soon. I saw my younger brother watching this and was impressed with the casting so I’m checking out the show. HUGE SPOILER BELOW….

Just finished episode 5 and I must say Dayna impressed the shit out of me. Killed the crazy trucker, infiltrated Staff’s people as a spy , then when she got screwed because essentially he cheated to find her out….she took herself out to protect Tom with almost zero hesitation.

Obviously I’m gonna to miss her character but I very much admire her. That is exactly how you write a badass character. Also I absolutely loved her response when asked if she’d take the mission. So far I’m loving this shit. Even if I think Harold is a little too much.

Which brings some questions. First: What made Harold suspect someone was searching his house? He just looked at his own hidden camera at Frannie’s then immediately knew. I hated that. Also, let’s be honest, dude doesn’t seem that capable. I really don’t think he could’ve managed to put an entire network of hidden cameras all the time. I know the bad guy has to start out on top in a story but that seems a little over the top to me. Anyone else?

PS Please avoid spoilers past episode 5. Thanks!

Edit: Also where did he learn to become an explosives expert??

Edit 2: I finished the show and I’m now immune to spoilers. Also I was absolutely delighted when I found out that Randall Flag is one of the many names as the man I know as Walter O’Dim from The Dark Tower books. I’m so damn exited that they’re working on a TV show for that!

hi everyone! i need to translate few chapters from the book for my exam and i don't really have time to read the whole thing , so I'm thinking of watching those miniseries but i need to know if they're accurate to the book and which version i need to watch ( 1994 or 2020 ) , also i would love if someone can volunteer and write for me summary about the book and the terms of it if there's any? ( for example in harry potter books we have those terms that they're only belong to the book like patrouns , spells ect.. someone who didn't read / watch HP wouldn't know them ) , thanks in advance!

Here’s me and Ed Harris a few years ago. When I first met him the first thing I said was “I loved you in ‘The Stand!’” Not Pollack, not The Rock, not any of the other work he’s done, but the 1994 TV mini-series where he had 10 minutes of screen time.

Just finished the stand. Honesty loved it, Stephen king is obviously a fantastic writer even though I’m not super familiar with his work I know his popularity speaks for itself.

The book was so long and descriptive from beginning till nearly the end. But the ending felt SO rushed. Like I was pumped things were happening but also so disappointed with some of the final stuff. Is it just me??

Like the fact of how they made Stu (sort of) the main character and he laterally did nothing in the end. Just walked abit, broke his leg and went home.

How Harold after sooooo much back story and anguish (I really felt sorry and equally hated the guy) simply broke his leg and shot Himself.

How the whole Las Vegas blew up because of MAGIC.

Idk about you but I thought he did most of the characters dirty in the last 90 pages of the book.

While in hypnosis, when Tom was sent out on his mission, they gave him specific instruction to kill if he meets a single man and to hide if he encounters multiple. I was of impression the that he would kill Stu at any moment at the end of the book, on their way back to Bloulder. Why didn't Tom do it?? Did I miss something?

Hi Redditors,

I have just finished the unabridged version of The Stand, and I have a question regarding the timeline in the novel.

When we are first introduced to Flagg (Chapter 23), we learn that he can now - at the early onset of the flu pandemic - do magic.

However, thirty chapters later (Chapter 53), Nadine remembers having been contacted (presumably) by Flagg via Ouija board in college, about twelve years before the spread of the Captain Trips plague and his new found magic.

Am I missing something? Is this a continuity error? Is Flagg not the entity that contacted Nadine in college? I'd love to get the community's input on this!

Thanks ahead,

Hello, I could not find any info on that. Small town, I grew up there in the 80s - Just kind of interesting. Its a small, small town....even smaller when the character was created.

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Just wondering about King's connection to Ridley. Oddly enough - I will say its kind of a spooky place.

I know that Stephen king often inserts scattered Easter eggs into his novels and I can’t wait to read more in order to witness previous adventures.

The end of the book tells of RF on an island and the cyclicity of evil in the world. Will he be part of new Easter eggs in other books by Stephen King? I’m curious about his fate.

I understand that the purpose of Larry and Ralph’s journey (at least for those two specifically) is to be captured so that they can be publicly executed. Due to the nature of the public execution, the entirety of Las Vegas will be there, including members of Flagg’s recon teams who may otherwise be out on missions etc. So their execution is the focal point that draws together everyone in Vegas, which is how the nuke is able to be so successful.

Couldn’t there have been any number of situations that would have Flagg draw together his entire settlement? E.g. Whitney and several others were on the cusp of defecting to Brazil or Canada etc. Trashcan Man’s impending punishment could also have been a valid reason to draw Vegas to one spot, though Flagg obviously feels weirdly sentimental about Trashy and thus maybe wouldn’t want a public execution (and in fact says he will quickly kill Trash mercifully).

Idk, I guess I’m just not sure on what the whole point of act 3 was, especially since neither Larry or Ralph really did anything to cause the outcome. At least the Judge laughed at Flagg in front of Lloyd and showed him that Flagg is kind of a coward when he isn’t in control, so his death served a purpose. Stu’s role in the trip is clear as well.

I did appreciate that Larry was able to mend the two sides of his personality into one before his death and be at peace. But I basically have no idea why Ralph is there at all (from both King’s pov as the writer, but also Ralph as a character).

I don’t necessarily have a problem with the whole ‘deus ex machina’ thing in general - there are clearly meta forces at play here and so I am OK with god intervening in the final hour. But I don’t really see why it had to be Ralph and Larry being executed to make the atom bomb’s timing optimal, and so it seems weirdly pointless that Larry and Ralph are dead at all. Larry’s character was due for a final arc to redeem himself, but to me his sacrifice is less “previously selfish character sacrificing his life for the greater good” and more “man, thank god he was nuked instead of being ripped apart - it is lucky that god was merciful for his death” which isn’t very satisfying imo. Idk though. Feels like an oddly vacant end for Larry and Ralph. Even Whitney’s death at least triggered the blue flame to be created by flagg so that god could use it to blow the bomb, so in a way Whitney’s last stand and death were almost more impactful?

I was upset that Nick died so soon in the story as well, but his final moments were oddly clairvoyant and I appreciated it a lot more than the nuke.