kids orgy?

Thanks for being completely oblivious to absolutely everything I've tried to explain about this. Proving again and again that you just truly don't get it, and never will. And for that, you do have my pity.

"Stay Bloody!" - Seth from Blood Puddle Reviews

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The point I'm trying to get across, funny enough, is that I actually do agree that the scene from the book will not translate to the film. My only disagreement here is referring to it as an "orgy," because it makes it out to be something it's not. They were not a bunch of preteens deciding to strip down and have a party in the sewer, and I think it's immature to simply disregard it as such.

What I'm trying to emphasis here is that the scene served it's purpose of the Losers club being lost and feeling as if their group is breaking apart, and Bev believes she has a way to reconnect them, bring their strength back, help them find that power back as a group so that they can find their way out of the sewers.

IT's existence brought them together as The Losers Club, and defeating (or just hurting and forcing IT into an early hibernation) was only part of the battle. They were still in the sewer and had to find their way back out afterwards.

Is the way Stephen King wrote them finding that re-connection within themselves obscure? Of course it was. Could he have had them do something else? Sure enough. In fact, I always believed the miniseries itself alluded to this in another way. In the 2nd part, when she brings all of them over to her house to see the blood in her sink, and they take to cleaning it up, the adult Bev then says, "I fell in love with all of you that day." (Also I know that scene also happens in the book, I'm just trying to show an example here.) To me, the scene wasn't even about them being intimate, it was about Bev bringing them all together in a way to show them that they shared a love like no other, a strong enough connection to defeat an evil as powerful as IT.

I read IT as just a just kid myself, and I admit, that part threw me. I remember Richie Tozier's reaction to it in the book was that his voice cracked and he's initially frightened by Bev's action, all asking "What are you doing?!" and my reaction was right in tone with that lol. But at the same time, I never pointed at the book and giggled like Beavis and Butt-head, proclaiming "OMG THEIR DOIN' IT! THE KIDS ARE HAVING AN ORGY!" (And don't take that out of context, I'm not saying ANYONE here is having such a reaction. That's just how it comes off sometimes by some people who don't get it.)

Truth be told, when I read the scene, I didn't even know what an "orgy" was. Years later when I learned the meaning of the word, it never once made me think "OOOH, so THAT'S what the kids were doing in the book!" I think some people focus too much on the sex part of the scene. There's more to it than that, and I never thought that aspect was what should have been focused on at all.

Let's try something else. Think of it like this...

Let's say the kids were super heroes, and they all had magic powers or something. And, after the battle with IT, all of their powers were drained and they were all weak, scared and lost. But then, Bev, who had retained most of her own power, decides to share hers with the rest of them, draining her own, but giving them all equally enough strength to keep them strong as a group. Just enough to get out of the sewers.

Now, this is definitely a very bizarre way to look at it, but follow me on this. If this were such the case, would people then look at the scene and say think of it as disgusting and child porn? I'd hope not. It would just show that Bev loved her friends and wanted to keep them strong, and powerful enough as a group to survive. Far fetched, and I know that analogy will make a lot of people tilt their heads, but this is as closely to how I always viewed the scene as I can try to explain. It's not about super heroes or magical powers, that was just an example. But I view the core of the scene to be about that in concept; The group is scared, worn down, lost, feeling broken up, and Bev believes she knows a way that will bring them back together. Honestly, a group hug like they had in the miniseries, or even just her sharing all of their first kisses would work just fine to get that point across on film, should they show it at all.

At the end of it all, my point is simply that I disagree in the title of calling the scene "an orgy." The kids weren't sex addicts or pornographic stars, and they weren't doing what they were doing for the point of pleasure, which is what I presume people would aim to achieve if they were to engage is such an "orgy." I really don't know what else I can say on the matter, and from now I'll just be ignoring future posts that bring this scene up. It's been talked about to death.

"Stay Bloody!" - Seth from Blood Puddle Reviews