11/10/2023 0 Comments Amargosa opera house dead files![]() ![]() Lloyd is skeptical that they even need this joker or the “fire,” but Flagg insists he wants it for the holdouts. He’s sending him out to a military facility in the desert to bring back a nuke. ![]() First, Lloyd brings the newly arrived Trashcan Man up to the penthouse for a meet and greet with the boss. It also helps that we finally get a lot of Randall Flagg in this episode. These scenes were new to fans of the novel, and both were quite satisfying. We also get a face-off between the true protagonists of this series, Frannie and Harold. We get a face-off between the ultimate poles of good and evil, Mother Abagail and Randall Flagg. ![]() In Episode 6, The Stand does the same thing. They mostly stayed true to the books, giving the fans the scenes they were dying to see, but then also added scenes where characters who never met in the novel had interactions on screen. One of the best book-to-screen adaptations I’ve ever seen was Season 2 of His Dark Materials just last month. Likewise, apparently, for the take on Trashcan Man we got in this episode. OK, yes, New Vegas is still the place “where nuance goes to die,” as the AV Club so succinctly put it. As we round the bend into the latter episodes, the changes are finally starting to have purpose. Up until now, so many of the “choices” seem to have been made either for expediency in the compressed flashbacks, or to do something different just for the sake of doing something different. Well, the trailer clearly shows us who from the chosen five is going to survive to go on “The Walk” in the next episode, so where’s the suspense in that? Now though, he might potentially take out a large chunk of the population of the Boulder Free Zone, raising the stakes on the original story. For example, the word “vigil” does not appear at all in the novel, where Harold was just targeting a regular Committee meeting. Welcome, constant reader, as we continue to review the CBS All Access miniseries The Stand with Episode 6, “The Vigil.” At last, the series sets itself apart from the novel and the previous miniseries in ways that are meaningful and contribute to the story. ![]() The following contains spoilers through Episode 6 of The Stand on CBS All Access, and for the entirety of the original Stephen King novel The Stand. ![]()
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