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Damn what a fkn long name for an episode, "The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planets Function", anyways, Episode 4 of IT Welcome To Derry finally decided to pump some gas into the series not only with Penny Wise data dump but also with some of the most gory scenes we have seen before and it really trick me out at first, look I get it slow burns are cool and all but three episodes deep and we are just now getting some real movement so yeah this one hit hard and shows how we yet dont need full clown mode to be a good show. The whole flashback thing with the entity crashing to Earth and Taniel showing Dick all that ancient shit about his ancestors fighting this thing was pretty wild and I love it, like part of me digs the lore dump becuase it explains why Pennywise or the Galloo cannot just pack up and leave Derry those star fragments acting like a prison perimeter is smart but at the same time sometimes less is more you know sometimes the monster is scarier when you do not know every single detail about where it came from and why it does what it does. The Marge scene though holy shit that was brutal watching her freak out thinking she has snail eyes popping out and then going full psycho with the band saw that is the kind of messed up horror I signed up for and then poor Lily trying to stop her and everyone walks in thinking she is the one who did it man that is rough I really need to see what happens next with that because leaving it hanging like that is killing me, but overall this episode finally feels like things are moving and it feels awesome, I just hope they keep this momentum going because I am ready for shit to really hit the fan.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19244304/
- Platform: HBO MAX
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The kids finnaly got some photo evidence of this thing and they rush to the police station all excited thinking this is going to clear Hanks name and get the adults to actually pay attention but nope Chief Bowers looks at the pictures and sees nothing, like literally nothing just dead flowers and pigeon shit which is so frusturating because you know the entity is messing with everyones heads making the adults competently blind to whats happening right in front of them. The only thing that shows up in the photos is this clown figure in the background and even that Bowers just dismisses as a statue or whatever the hell he thinks it is, these kids cannot catch a break and its getting harder and harder for them to prove what they are seeing is real when the entity has this whole mind control thing going on with everyone in town. Will starts putting the pieces together about how the entity makes people scared on purpose because fear makes them taste better which is just gross when you think about it like this thing is literally seasoning its food by scaring the crap out of people before eating them, he explains it in this very scientific way talking about cortisol and adrenaline and how it changes the way humans taste which I thought was a cool touch becuase it makes sense in a twisted way. Lily comes up with the idea to use her moms Valium pills to stop themselves from feeling fear which is pretty smart honestly like if fear makes you tastier then maybe not feeling fear gives you some kind of protection, they call it mommys little helper and I had to laugh at that because yeah in the 60s everyone was popping pills for everything but hey if it keeps Pennywise away then why not.
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Now that whole Marge situation, that was hands down the most disturbing thing I have seen in this entire series so far and that includes all the creepy shit from the previous episodes, Marge is already feeling guilty about setting Lily up for this prank that the Patty Cakes are planning and shes nervous and sweating in the bathroom trying to psych herself up to go through with it. The biology teacher showed them this thing about parasites earlier in the episode how flatworms get inside snails and make their eyes bulge out so birds come eat them and spread the parasite and guess what Pennywise uses that exact fear against Marge, she looks in the mirror and sees her eyes growing huge like the snail eyes and she completely loses it starts freaking out thinking she has these parasite things coming out of her head and the only way to get rid of them is to cut them off. The sound effects in this scene were insane that distorted glug noise and then the way they showed her point of view through the bulging eyes looking at two different angles at the same time was just nasty, Marge grabs a wood chisel and tries to dig under her eye and then she runs her face across a band saw like what the actual fuck this is a kid doing this to herself because Pennywise made her think it was real. Lily hears her screaming and tries to help her but by the time the other kids run in Lily is covered in blood holding the chisel and everyone's thinking she did it, this is exactly the kind of thing that makes everyone think Lily is crazy and now shes probably going back to Juniper Hill wich sucks because she was actually trying to save Marge not hurt her but nobody is going to believe that, back then there was no cctv.
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The military side of things is getting more interesting because now Howerin is using his shining ability to dig around in Taniels memories and get the information Shaw wants about those pillars, the way they showed this whole sequence was pretty cool with Howerin stepping into Taniels mind and seeing all these doors that represent different memories and he finds the one he needs. Taniel remembers his aunt Rose telling him the story of the Galloo when he was a kid and we get this whole flashback about how the entity crashed to Earth inside a meteorite millions of years ago, the meteor breaks open and the dead lights come out and start terrorizing the area turning into whatever people are afraid of which back then was a moose with bloody antlers and later this creepy priest guy. The tribe from Taniels ancestors figures out they can use pieces from the meteor to trap the entity because if the meteor was its prison in the first place then pieces of it should still work as a cage, so they break off pieces and bury them around the western woods creating this barrier that the entity cannot cross and thats why its been stuck in Derry all this time. I thought this was a really smart way to explain why Pennywise never leaves town because in the movies and the book it never really made sense why this thing would just stay in one place when it could go anywhere, now we know its not because it wants to stay its because it has to stay trapped inside this circle of meteor pieces that the tribe buried hundreds of years ago. The fight scene between the tribe and the entity was pretty brutal you see this warrior woman Sesqui trying to protect her people and the entity takes the form of a priest and then a demon baby bursts out of his chest and stabs her mom which was just wild, eventually Necani uses the dagger made from the meteor to wound the entity and drive it back into the cave and then they bury the meteor pieces to keep it contained.
The episode ends with Howerin getting the information he needs from Taniel about where the pillars are buried under the old Neibolt house and you just know next episode we are going back into those sewers which is going to be intense, Leroy is also starting to believe something is up after he and Will both see a red balloon floating by the river and then again outside their house later that night which freaked me out because the entity is definitively messing with them now. Will almost gets pulled into the river by the entity taking the form of his dad all burned up which is creepy as hell and also foreshadowing what probably happens later in the season with the black spot fire, Howerin and his buddies are setting up this old shed to turn it into a hangout spot and you just know that place is going to burn down by the end of the season killing a bunch of people. Charlotte is trying to help Hank by acting as his lawyer and she finds out he was having an affair with a white woman which is why he cannot give his real alibi because in 1962 that would cause even more problems for him than being accused of murder, the racial stuff in this show is handled pretty well I think it shows how messed up things were back then without being preachy about it. Overall this episode was a huge step up from the first three because it actually moved the story forward instead of just teasing things, the lore dump about the meteor and the pillars was interesting even if some of the CGI looked rough and that Marge scene is going to stick with me for a while because that was disturbing in a way that most horror does not even come close to, I am definitely hooked now and I cannot wait to see what happens when they go into the Neibolt house next episode because you know its going to get real messy real fast.
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