I HATE THIS ADAPTATION WHY DO ALL THESE ADAPTATIONS DO MY CHILDREN SO FUCKING DIRTY!!!!

MIKE HANLON DESERVES BETTER

And besides that, I just have so many other questions??

The Losers are barely friends in this. They spend the whole summer either apart or constantly being traumatized! What about the dam? What about the smoke lodge? What about the kids going to see the movies together? What about playing army guys? What about the Ritual of Chüd? Why is Ben the historian--why is that role taken from Mike, the only black kid in the cast? The Black Spot's clientele was almost exclusively black people? Why is that not something Mike gets to share with the audience? Why did they kill Mike's parents? His dad was one of like... the two decent adults in there. Why did they make Ben so cowardly? He was fat, but he was brave. WHERE IS SILVER??? Why did Eddie find out about his placebos from some rando teenager instead of Mr. Keene? Why would he believe her? Mr. Keene was an adult he trusted, that's what makes it such a big deal when he gets told. Why didn't they let her have her moment using the silver slugs and the slingshot? Bill wasn't coping well with Georgie's death in the book but at least he admitted Georgie was gone. The fact that he did and his parents didn't was a huge part of the strain on their relationship. Why is he in denial here?

Just... This is terrible. The 1990 miniseries abridged some stuff, and when I found out how long this one was, I thought great! This one can go into more detail about this stuff! APPARENTLY NOT THOUGH. Like I get why they couldn't include just how fucked up Patrick Hocksetter was (do the fans on here know how fucked up Patrick was? do they have any idea?) and the Ending of the summer of '67 for obvious reasons, but just.... I can't tell if I'm autism-mad because Stephen King's works have been a special interest for just shy of 20 years and they changed something, or if other, more normal fans of his stuff are this upset too.

WAIT IS RICHIE SERIOUSLY CHEWING BILL OUT HERE????? NO NO NO I HATE THIS

I'm just so mad about Mike though. He was one of the major characters and he's barely even there.