re: Carrie Official Trailer

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I just felt that Emaline and the whole coven crap with Adelaide was completely unnecessary.

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Overall, I thought that the series was very well done until the end. The last episode ruined it. We didn’t need the Emaline or Adelaide characters. The whole point of the story is that Carrie gets pushed too far and her revenge has devastating consequences, both for herself and for those around her.

Also, the scene where she practices her abilities with Emaline coaching her was stupid and looks like something out of an X-men origin story. She’s supposed to not really understand the limits of her powers, so that in the end, when she loses her shite at the prom, it’s complete chaos.

Thanks for the spoilers!

I enjoyed it, and have recommended it to friends.

The tragic brilliance of Carrie has always been that she isn't evil. Flanagan explicitly shifted the narrative to make Carrie less culpable, aiming to establish her as a long-term protagonist for future seasons rather than a tragic, one-off monster.

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The tragic brilliance of Carrie has always been that she isn't evil. Flanagan explicitly shifted the narrative to make Carrie less culpable, aiming to establish her as a long-term protagonist for future seasons rather than a tragic, one-off monster

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I agree 100%. I just feel we didn’t need the Emaline character at all. We all know that Carrie isn’t a monster. Actually Emaline is, and I don’t want to see anymore of her going forward. She manipulated Carrie into murder. She’s the villain, not Carrie.

I liked it. I understand most of the changes given where they want to go with things.

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Overall, I thought that the series was very well done until the end. The last episode ruined it. We didn’t need the Emaline or Adelaide characters. The whole point of the story is that Carrie gets pushed too far and her revenge has devastating consequences, both for herself and for those around her.

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Well they are changing the scope of things and tying the King universe together. And by "they" I really mean Stephen King. Emaline was his idea. If they're going to extent the Carrie story, they can't have her full arc end where it originally ended. Her moment of true self-actualization has to be delayed.

Y'all are obsessed

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Well they are changing the scope of things and tying the King universe together. And by "they" I really mean Stephen King. Emaline was his idea. If they're going to extent the Carrie story, they can't have her full arc end where it originally ended. Her moment of true self-actualization has to be delayed.

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I know that Stephen King supported Mike Flanagan’s idea of tying Carrie in with the rest of his universe, but I don’t understand why he would be in favor of fricking up such an iconic scene as the bloody prom. They spent seven episodes building a story and then pretty much throw everything out the window in favor of a new ending. It reminds me of how Game of Thrones spent seven seasons creating a fantastic character in Daenerys Targaryen then had her go crazy and become a villain in the final few episodes. Flanagan robbed Carrie of her agency.

I knew to expect some changes. That’s what Flanagan does. He takes the source material and keeps the core but expands on it by introducing new characters and plot lines. More often than not it works, but messing with something as iconic as the bloody prom in Carrie should’ve been off limits. He could’ve still built her into a hero as she comes to grips with the devastation she caused. I think it would’ve made her an even more complex character.

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but messing with something as iconic as the bloody prom in Carrie should’ve been off limits. He could’ve still built her into a hero as she comes to grips with the devastation she caused. I think it would’ve made her an even more complex character.

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I agree. I think he should have let her cause the destruction and then have her deal with the realization of what she did. She didn't even kill her mom in this version.

I didn't like how the mom died. Seems like they would have kept her living since she showed signs of power also. I was hoping she and Carrie would reunite and learn how to deal with their powers. I wonder is Carrie will find out what happened to her mom. Will she be mad? Will she want revenge for the death of her mom? I guess there's just a lot of unknown related to the group of women doing the interviews. Are they good or bad? Considering they murdered her mom, they can't be angels.

It looked to me like as soon as her mom told them she wouldn't be able to resummon her powers the decision was made to kill her. Thats how I interpreted it when watching but maybe they were gonna kill her either way.