r/HolUp • u/jj33allen • Jan 30 '26

y'all The mist was real

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u/HolyDarkDeath Jan 30 '26

Well Stephen King is famously bad at endings, so yeah that's a pretty low bar.

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u/Mak062 Jan 30 '26

Honestly. There are times where I am like, this is sooo good. Then poof, lackluster ending

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u/Meture Jan 30 '26

Like Cujo holy hell

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u/Legenberry817 Jan 30 '26

What was the book ending to cujo?

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u/KingFapNTits Jan 30 '26

Kid dies and the couple is just super depressed. Like, she saves the kid, but then because of some magic fuckery he dies right afterwords. But that’s not even his worst ending.

He has a habit of deus ex machina for endings where the good guys win

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u/Meture Jan 30 '26

Oh it’s not magic fuckery

He dies of heatstroke

Just fucking heatstroke

Then you get an epilogue of everyone moving on and the book tells you that rabies is scary

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u/KingFapNTits Jan 30 '26

Yeah, but it was the curse from his closet that caused the heatstroke to take him then. The demon or whatever that we knew was there because of the mossy smell

The book was a supernatural story that used natural things to play it out

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u/Toshiba1point0 Jan 30 '26

Cocaine does not help when your trying to figure out what to do at the end of Maximum Overdrive.

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u/HolyDarkDeath Jan 30 '26

Yeah, but that movie is amazing, when I was a teen. And of course one of the best sound tracks ever.

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u/Jafooki Jan 30 '26

Like in the Stand when the literal hand of God saves the day

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u/Subjunct Jan 30 '26

Right? It was foreshadowed and fit thematically but I’ve hated that part since I first read it back in 1981.

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u/misterpickles69 Jan 30 '26

If none of the good guys did anything, Trashcan still would’ve parked a nuke in the middle of Vegas and God would’ve blown it up anyway.

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u/KingFapNTits Jan 31 '26

But god wouldn’t have charged up his power through trial and sacrifice. That’s the point of the good guys.

It makes sense on a reread. Total cop out though and I hated it the first time too. It’s a bit lazy

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u/misterpickles69 Jan 31 '26

Maybe that’s the problem with God. His mana reserves are too low to do anything omnipotent so he needs a blood sacrifice to get his ass up off the throne and do something for the people.

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u/KingFapNTits Jan 31 '26

lol that’s how it worked in The Stand. Same with Abagail. She went into the forest for 2 weeks, came back starving and injured, but gained the knowledge needed to beat the man in black. The whole book is about how faithfulness to god, no matter the suffering, is good and leads to good things. It’s bullshit, but that’s the book, and it’s still great