#it asks

yoooo ty for asking :^D!!

Falcon: is there any interpretation of canon you feel most people get wrong?

ALRIGHT this is a big one. I had to think abt my answer to this one for a while bc I can think of a handful of smaller things that are down to my own personal/petty interpretations I don't like to see violated, but I wanted to pick one much more reasonable: The way people interpret Mike :^/

TBH: I think people don't really take him for all that he is efficiently. Surely this is somewhat rooted in racism, but I really think he does not get enough credit for being a story teller. He holds the big ass job of delivering a ton of the narrative in the book. I feel like when people DO bother to rlly characterize him, they make him into a "wise/measured" stereotype, which is weird because it removes his humanity and motivations. I gotta start talking about Mike on here more, dudez. I just think he gets an unfair shake.

And, much more briefly because I can't get into summarizing the full issue: I fucking loathe when people reduce Richie and Eddie to just... Fights-A-Lot: The Couple... There's bickering and banter but then there's the way some of yall have them just being out and out dicks to each other a majority of the time they spend speaking. That is a misinterpretation of their character, I fully believe this, and it makes me want to scream when it's all yall know.

Keene’s: any characters you picture completely differently from the movies?

TBH Eddie in It Chapter 2... Guys, I really don't like that man. The child actor does just fine, I think he's got sweet doe eyes, but I really cannot fathom James Rans*ne... I felt like his portrayal of Eddie was lousy (he's an ineffectual vehicle for Eddie's characterization) and I literally do not think I need to get started on the fucking foul behavior he's had external to the movies as a real person. I refuse to imagine Eddie like that. He's either Dennis Christopher or a blurry version of Anthony Perkins and that is literally that.

I mean, we all saw Season 4. We all know what it means.

-ok so ofc he didn’t know you were a witch until AFTER you were dating

-you guys were mutual friends for a while

-occasional project partners turned cutesy little stares from across the room turned hanging out turned becoming a loser turned realizing wow ur cute turned couple in a span of six months

-it was a rlly fun way of finding out

-by fun i mean scary but hey it’s spooky season what’s the difference amiright fellas up top

-anyway

-you two were riding bikes down a path by the river, with its lovely very dangerous rapids

-you were acting extra cutesy in his opinion and he got distracted and slipped off the path a little and the wet mud caused lovely lil silver to slip and he got jolted off and would’ve landed in the river 

-if

-ohoho if

-if only you hadn’t reached out a simple hand and his body was suspended in mid air

-he felt like his heart wasn’t beating, as if the river had stopped, as if everything had stopped just to let that shock absorb

-you guided him back on to the path and safely to the ground before releasing your hold on him

-you had a lot of explaining to do

-which you did, and Man was he amazed

-”my girlfriend’s a witch!” “not too loud honey”

-after you explained, he began to connect the dots

-those little cutesy incidents, those lucky little sparks during the day

-it had to be bc of you

-like when he had almost tripped in the hall walking w you, and then miraculously caught himself

-when bowers was about to launch at him but then just so happened to run into a locker instead of the boy

-and that just made him go “oh man i love that girl”

Yes yesss. Thank yoouu!! I've been wanting to talk about the significance of that particular part, then immediately following that we get the inverted balloons scene! Come one you all, LOOK AT ALL THAT CODING, THE SYMBOLISM.

Also I forget where this image comes from but if you look behind eddie it looks like a bunch of older men sitting in pews??? I read somewhere about it and I want to bring it up again that there was supposed to be a scene of Eddie going to church and like questioning himself??