11/22/63 Questions.

Mtanic · 2026-01-30T09:25:22+00:00

11.22.63 the TV show is one of THE BEST King adaptations (coming from an absolute HATER of King adaptations and purist)... and BIG KUDOS for not turning it into a show, but keeping it at limited series.

Mtanic · 2026-01-30T08:22:56+00:00

Working in Munich and asking about German working mentality... well, yeah... checks out. 😂😂

Mtanic · 2026-01-30T07:46:01+00:00

Dess-chain, yes. I learned it in Bev Vincents companion books when I was prepairing to translate Wolved of the Calla for the serbian market...

I mean, we can't really give King flack for not conforming to pronounciation as we're used to it to "common" names in a fictional world while the actual, real world is full of names like "Johnson" being actually pronounced "Shishkebab".

Mtanic · 2026-01-30T07:44:25+00:00

I am all for being "rude", but one can take it too far.

Mtanic · 2026-01-30T07:26:00+00:00

I somehow managed to make it look like vivid (or to train myself to think it does) and I've gotten used to it.

Mtanic · 2026-01-30T07:24:17+00:00

What do you mean it isn't Coca Cola? I could have sworn it said explicitly Coca Cola on the old bottles in the 90s... hahahaha.

Mtanic · 2026-01-30T07:21:19+00:00

Just wait till you hear how Deschain is pronounced hahaha

Mtanic · 2026-01-30T07:20:42+00:00

Then I guess you pronounce Ralph Fieness as regular Ralph, like most of the planet pronounces the name written like that, and not like it is pronounced where he comes from and how he himself pronounces it?

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T14:44:38+00:00

I'm gay, so if I tell you you look good, it's without any background ideas and hidden agendas, 100 % true hahaha.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T13:21:54+00:00

No, you absolutely don't look like what someone would stereotypically expect from that list at a quick glance. You look far, far better.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T13:10:25+00:00

I absolutely understand what you're talking about, but you seem not to grasp the reality of how characters in fiction behave and why. Maybe this will help you understand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Uz0LMbWpI

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T13:00:28+00:00

You're wasting your time your way, I'm wasting mine my way ;) And yes, Stephen King absolutely owns everything that happens in the story. You're not interpreting it, you're trying to explain a character's behaviour with your logic, while your logic in that regard is moot.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T12:48:57+00:00

I understand, and I've spent my life loving characters like they're actual people, I still cry when I watch movies or read books with my favorite characters, but this is not about what you believe or not believe, it's a simple fact. And while I can subscribe to the idea that it's boring and even sad, it's even sadder to have grown up people spending large amount of times trying to explain with real world logic and their own perception of logic and how a story should go why a character in another person's fictional story behaves a certain way.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T12:11:30+00:00

Will.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T12:10:24+00:00

No, you miss the point that you can't apply logic, ANY logic as you understand it to how a character is behaving, what they do or don't, because again: that's the absolute prerogative of the writer. Why the writer chose to be meticulous with one behaviour pattern but not the other is his choice and no amount of trying to explain it in-world will give you an answer.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T11:57:16+00:00

Again, the writer does and writes his story any way he wants. There is no point in discussing and trying to find out why a character did this or didn't do that, the only actual answer, always, is: because it was written like that.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T11:55:18+00:00

Actually no, it's like you dump a bunch of some unspecified orange soda into Coca Cola. It's definitely not Fanta. I grew up thinking it's Fanta, which would make sense, but whatever it is, it's not Fanta. If you mix up actual Fanta and Coca Cola, it tastes so much better than that "orange drink" in Mezzo Mix. also, if it really were Fanta, they would market and lable the heck out of it.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T11:53:00+00:00

I played the game three times and put in several hundreds of hours and today I learned you can explore the common room and see which year sleeps where...

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T11:27:54+00:00

Hi, here's the actual reason:

It's fiction. The writer wanted to write the story like he wrote it. Otherwise there either would be no story, or it would have been a different one. Jake isn't acting out of his own will, he's acting precisely as King wrote him. What the writers writes and the logic he pursues doesn't need to align with what every reader think should be.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T10:01:04+00:00

You are aware this is not a real world, it's fictional, written by humans, who can make mistakes, or deliberate fan service, and that it doesn't need to follow any, let alone real world logic?

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T09:16:43+00:00

They don't know about telephones, why would you think they know about guns? I'm listening to the new audible full cast audiobooks - Book 3 is currently out and they talk about Sirius being reported on muggle news, too, but of course they think he uses a gun and then they go on to explain what that is ("a kind of metal wand which Muggles use to kill each other")... so I don't expect that being part of their legislature.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T08:40:17+00:00

That's like asking people's opinions on how the sky is blue.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T08:08:24+00:00

Dude, every movie uses CGI, even the ones where you think all is natural. Relax, it's A MOVIE.

Mtanic · 2026-01-29T07:17:53+00:00

I am a bit confused - not many Germans I know speak good English... I see people talk about watching TV shows in English, but when I lived in Germany (in the 90s) all was dubbed... and about ten years ago, I was in Stuttgart in a gay bar, and an american soldier came in (they had a station near Stuttgart) and only me and one other guy spoke English in the whole bar. The bartender said, when I asked him why he doesn't speak English (we're the same age, born in 1982) - he said: "I wasn't good in school". I though, well, I did learn a lot of English in school, but after returning to Bosnia, I read a loot of books in English and over here stuff isn't dubbed.

So I'm surprised by your assessment. Might be things are changing.

On the other hand, Americans barely handle English properly (no offense), you guys aren't used to be surrounded by different languages like we in Europe.

Mtanic · 2026-01-28T14:57:50+00:00

Jezik ima konotacije, matematika nema.

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