• edric
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    411 months ago

    Maybe. What makes the thing scary is how unstoppable and inevitable of a force it is, no matter what you do and no matter where you go. I’ll be disappointed if they somehow find a way to kill it in the sequel.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      Understanding it or figuring out where it came from would be even worse than killing it. The characters knowing almost nothing except what they observe directly is what makes it so terrifying.

      • @canthidiumOP
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        211 months ago

        Yeah, explaining the mystery of it, I think, would ruin it. The mystery is part of what makes it work.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Until it happens to befall a depressed or suicidal person who just goes “fuck it” and let’s it catch up. What then? The curse cannot be passed on so it’s essentially just over forever, right?

      • synae[he/him]
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        911 months ago

        The way I remember the rules, it’d follow the previous person again

      • snooggums
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        111 months ago

        If we don’t really know how how it started, how would we know if running out of victims ends the threat?

    • DrMango
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      111 months ago

      It also functioned well as a metaphor for growing up/loss of innocence. I’m not sure how well it will go trying to explore that theme further using the same metaphor.

    • yeti
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      111 months ago

      They didn’t even get through an entire movie without ruining that mystique. It wasn’t very “unstoppable and inevitable” when it was just standing on the roof of a house, or when it just grabbed that girl by the hair but failed to do any damage.