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On Mar 29, 2:37=A0pm, "Franklin Hummel" <hum...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I was somewhat disappointed with the ending, which was very different
> from the ending of the novella.
What was the ending of the novella?
> What I did not like it the fact that the Mist was suddenly dissolving
> for no apparent reason. The director went further than King did in
> his writing in giving the exact reason the Mist had appeared.
> But then, to have an ending that gives no reason why it is going
> away? Was the Army suppose to be doing it? That seems silly, as
> nothing was shown about how this was happening.
I was guessing that it had something to do with the flame
throwers or something, and the effect was temporary.
> So what bothered me about this is that it totally took away
> The-End-Of-The-World aspect (and even likelihood) that existed in
> Stephen King's story. That made it very *less* Lovecraftian for me
> and I had high hopes that THE MIST would remain as Lovecraftian as
> the novella was.
> Also, why is the military bring back in *civilians* at the same time
> they are still destroying the Mist's monsters? That is just absurd.
The direction the military was moving in was the same as the
main character's SUV. In other words, they were travelling
away from the town. Obviously, the military was evacuating
those civilians. But the mist was disappearing behind the
lead vehicles. That makes sense if they were doing something
that temporarily cleared out the mist--something good enough
to clear a path for the convoy.
> Also one of the woman on the carriers was the woman who first walked
> out into the Mist to get home to her two young children. The fact she
> survived I found stupid. Anyone who was going out into the Mist was
> being killed within minutes if not seconds.
> I can come up with some side-story of her and her children's
> survival, but it would be fairly illogical, because of not only their
> survival but *how* did she manage to get SO far South.
I don't see it as being such a stretch. On the first day, there may
not have been as many monsters about, and those monsters may
have been feasting on a "target rich environment". It's plausible
for someone to travel a short distance and survive out of luck.
Once at her nearby house, the house would have provided
protection as long as the windows weren't broken by the storm.
The big problem for the people trapped in the supermarket was
that there were just too many of them! It took them only a couple
days to decide to start killing each other. A house with just a
mom and her young kids wouldn't have that problem.
The rescue convoy couldn't have arrived in town more than a day
after the SUV set out, for them to catch up so quickly. That
means that the mom and her family only had to stay huddled
in their house for less than a week before rescue.
Isaac Kuo
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