It Chapter 2 - Sep 3

Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. Now, back to the evil clowns. Here, we are talking about the Steven King novel that was adapted into movies/TV series in the 1990s, and now into another two movies – the first one was in 2017, and the second one coming to the cinema screens later this year (2019). It is ‘It’, to wit. …Pennywise the clown, being the titular character-villain, (look it up), rocked in his white and red make-up, as opposed to his (its’?) natural form, which is something shapeless, grotesque…and not so evil at all. Somehow, being altogether all too human made It the Pennywise clown more evil than whenever it/he, well, was an invertebrate instead.

…Do I want to discuss the details of the movie/movies, past and present and future? No. While ‘It’ was not a bad film per se, neither it was very debatable, at least not by me. Horror movie genres aren’t my thing, and I wouldn’t be mentioning ‘It’ at all, save for it being about an ultimate evil clown, (as opposed to, say, an ultimate evil werewolf – the titular monster can do a convincing lycanthrope too, BTW), which brings us back to ‘Joker 2019’, of whom we talked recently, and to the fact that ‘It Chapter Two’ comes back from its’ 90s incarnation later this year too. Does it make ‘It’ deserving of a mention? Yes, but nothing more. Anything else?

…’Pathfinder’ continues to churn out more ‘2^nd edition’ rulebooks and game books and stuff, but so far people are not being very overwhelmed. On top of anything else, the second edition had broken down the old structure: in an adventure path book, after the actual adventure description, there was an NPC gallery, then some supplementary material, and finally info on the new monsters that appear in this adventure, (if any). Intersecting the adventure path were the descriptions of various special treasures found during the adventures, as well as some sidebars – comments and advice from the adventure’s author. Now, this structure is gone, or at least – simplified, as NPCs, treasures and monsters are jumbled into one cluttered mess, though there is some supplementary information in the second edition adventure paths, I was told. However…

…However, the point is that the 1^st edition ‘Pathfinder’ was different; it stood out from its’ competition due to their dissimilar layout; as I have written before, ‘Pathfinder’ had more in common with the d20 Modern games than with D&D, which made it special and noticeable, but now that aspect of ‘Pathfinder’ is gone, and I cannot help but to question the logic of that move – is it really a good thing? Judging by circumstantial evidence, I cannot help but to wonder if the ‘Pathfinder’ cast itself is having problems adjusting to the new shift, time to prepare for it be damned… but that is their issues, and they will resolve them somehow. Alternatively, ‘Pathfinder’ will go down for good and people working for this franchise will lose their jobs. Pity, but that is real life for you. It sucks, and here ‘it’ is not Stephen King’s novel. Period.

…This is it for now. See you all soon!