The Stand
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He killed the travelers from Boulder who made it there, too.
While some of the changes may feel drastic to King loyalists, none of them stand out as deal-breakers.
They are found in orange jumpsuits in the basement of the Inferno, awaiting a twisted form of justice.
Its a sign of the Dark Mans flagging power.
Only the weak have to publicly display those who defy them.
While Stu shivers by a small fire, a trial of sorts takes place in Vegas.
Lloyd reads the charges, which are mostly about the trio being spies.
Its a true circus, complete with goofy outfits, a gong, and hollering crowds.
The cheering masses have been confronted with cold murder.
Maybe they picked the wrong side in this fight?
His power is quite literally fading.
Nadine comes to chat with the two remaining prisoners and wants to speak to Larry alone.
He tries to reason with his former traveling companion a bit.
Cut to the penthouse, where Nadines child looks like its coming out through her stomachAlienstyle.
A pained Nadine stands, yelling at Flagg that Larry was right.
She breaks the window and hurls herself to the empty pool below, killing herself and Flaggs prince.
Lloyd looks shaken by Nadines suicide and his murder of Glen.
Like all of Flaggs plans in this episode, it backfires.
The empire is collapsing around him.
Nature contains winners and losers, predators and prey.
Only now we are the predators, and they are the prey!
The apocalypse only clarifies divisions, it doesnt create them.
As the pool fills, Larry yells, I will fear no evil.
He gets smacked with Lloyds rod, and then the crowd starts to sense Henreids emotional desperation.
Someone else shouts, I will fear no evil, and everything gets a littleSpartacus.
Theres more yelling and dissent.
Flagg orders Lloyd to shoot the people yelling but he refuses and walks away.
It sends bolts of lightning through the crowd, killing followers as the water rises.
He is hit multiple times by bolts of electricity until he disappears.
And then it hits the warhead, which explodes, sending a mushroom cloud over the Southwest.
Stu sees the light and feels the shockwave, but the shadow of Tom Cullen emerges from the smoke.
Back in Boulder, Frannie and Joe can see the light too.
And then Frannie goes into labor.
Random Survivors
U96?
Is anyone else surprised by the Eurodance choice for the end of the world?
It was nice to see Wolff given more to play here than Lloyds goofy behavior from previous chapters.
He handled it well.
Finally, it was undeniably fun to see Skarsgard bite into some juicy evil monologues.
One wishes he had been given a few more.
Hes already changed the ending of this book once with the expanded edition.
How will he change it again?
