Newt! Newtie!!

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Modern Sonya and Harriet

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Like don't get me wrong the movies themselves are pretty damn good for films that diverged so thoroughly from the source material, and obviously the actors and characters are fantastic.

But the Flare in the books is so much worse than the Flare in the movies, and they really majorly lost out when they decided to just turn it into a zombie virus.

Because zombies, sure, ok, they're scary. But they're not the same kind of creeping dread that the book-Flare victims are. The book-Flare people are sooooo hair raising, in my opinion. The way that the disease starts with just decreased impulse control, resulting in people who are a little more reckless and a little more prone to pursuing their desires with little regard for consequences. and then how slowly that gets worse, and eventually things like kindness and compassion are leeched, bit by bit, away from victims of the Flare, leaving an intelligent human who has no empathy or morals -- and then how they become even more unhinged; the way they slowly stop feeling pain; the way they are still full functional except for the fact that theyre absolutely not.

And the fact that it happens over years. The fact that so many of the scientists who were putting these kids through these awful experiments were themselves infected, and thats why their ethics had slid so much and they were so willing to subject children to the horrors they did.

The fact that Newt wasn't past the Gone yet, but that he was still with it enough to know that he was slipping, to know that he was getting worse, to know that his moments of clarity were growing fewer and soon would stop altogether, to know that his moments of being him were running out, to know that there was only one way to stop himself from turning into one of those barely human monstrosities.

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