So I have a simple question now.. Would you travel in time if you could? Would you change it if you had the opportunity? Would you just go back to attempt a concert with The Beatles, Elvis or maybe someone less cliché. Would you change the past? Even though you are aware that the so called butterfly effect can damage everything in the future? These are the dilemmas that Jake Epping has to face when his friend who's sick from cancer introduces him to a 'rabbit hole' which takes you back to the year 1960 (In the book it's 1958 but it doesn't matter). The time is always being spoked as 'the best time ever' when you ask your grand parents but what was the reality? Can you live without your cell phone, your internet and what other privileges you have that makes it easier for you to study?
As you also see in this book/novel then Jim Crow was still alive and would you really want to live in that world? People being separated because of the color of their skins? That's stupid and for Jake Epping it is quiet a challenge. He comes from a time where the 'N'-word is almost forbidden to say and then he comes to this culture shock.
But he has not travelled back in time to be political correct he is on an important mission; he has to safe J.F Kennedy's life. This means he has to stay in the past for 3 years but that means nothing since he's only gone for 2 minutes in the future no matter what. In the book he travels back and forth many times but in the TV series he stays there in one shot. He is not really suppose to make anyone suspicious and no one is suppose to notice him, he has to blend in to the time and trend and walk around unnoticed. He has a problem though.. He knows too much and then he falls in love with the beautiful Sadie. In the book he goes on this mission alone but in the TV show he finds someone to help him (they are like number 1 enemies in the book). Together they survey Lee Harvey Oswald to discover if he was alone or someone else was involved in the murder of the President. Both the book and the TV show points in the direction that Oswald was alone I don't know wether it's because Stephen King thinks he was alone or if it's because it was easier to make it this way. In the book it sounds like Stephen King thinks he was alone. It doesn't matter, I'm not here to make conspiracies or kill them for that matter.. I wasn't even born I have no idea what the world looked like back then I only know what I read in books.
Ok, but what I truly miss in the TV show is 'The man with the yellow card.' He's far more important in the book. Actually it seems like he was only placed in the TV show because he kinda had to be there. In the book he commits suicide and his replacement 'The man with the green card' from Seattle tells why changing the past is so sensitive and what happens when you try to. In the book you meet the survivors of Pennywise as well (a little something to the geeks I guess ;))
What the future looks like is also far more well described. I feel like the last episode had to be completed too fast. Thanks to Harry Dunning, Jake Epping knows what he has changed. 9/11 never happened and neither did the Vietnam war but the future looks like a war zone.
Every time you jump through the rabbit hole then you make a restart. Or do you? Not if you ask the man with the card. But he really has to pull back what he has done because maybe the murder of Kennedy was cruel but everything happens for a reason.. Always a reason unknown.
Enjoy this amazing mini series and read the book too. You will not be disappointed!
Have fun!
Xoxo
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