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The Stand
1994 · TV series · 90 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Stephen King
After a deadly plague kills most of the world’s population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a maleficent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
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As others point out this essay is not good (does not even touch on the Native American threads prevalent in the movie that are missing in the book).
However, it does sort of point to a major characteristic in King’s typical “could’ve been good” villains: As opposed to totally evil characters, eg Bev’s husband in It, who are driven by their primal urges, these characters would have landed in a whole different place had the dice landed differently. Overall they are good but with a few weaknesses, which evil forces manipulate to pull them under. Another good example of such a character is Nick, in The Stand.
If you replace “evil forces” above by “life’s circumstances”, I think this to be a good description of how real-life villains are made.
That could have come from The Stand miniseries. All but the chitlins part.
why are bicycles nonexistant on post-apocalyptic stories?
Bikes are present (and maybe even integral to) some post-apocalyptic films like, Testament, Turbo Kid, The Stand. There are some media with no gas powered cars, like Adventure Time, and probably more.
However, for better or worse, Mad Max set the trope that the fight for fuel is often an interesting conflict. It's easy for a gas hungry viewing public to understand, at least!
Sadly, most of what is on the internet counts as reading the same as watching a spongebob episode and "The Stand" both count as watching a 'show.'
It's telling when writing a 3-4 paragraph article requires a ;TLDR section.
Usually when a person says they are a "reader," or the like, are specifically talking about long works, not articles in Maxim magazine.