Spoilers forward for IT: Welcome to Derry season 1, episode 7IT: Welcome to Derry is terrifying everybody with their new episode, and the most recent Pennywise the Clown twist has left the viewers with 4 mysteries which might be leaving folks speechless.
In an interview with ScreenRant‘s Grant Hermanns for IT: Welcome to Derry episode 7, showrunner Jason Fuchs defined precisely what occurred in the course of the newest episode within the hellscape, which is the fictional city of Derry.
“It occurred to us that maybe what was attention-grabbing in regards to the type of Pennywise was the best way the unique performer impacted kids. What was it prefer to see Bob Grey carry out? How did children react to him? Was this kind of a Pied Piper determine? And that is precisely what you see on the high of episode 7, a efficiency from Pennywise, the actual dancing clown, and never the manifestation. And also you see children watching him, hypnotized. They’re transfixed. After which when the efficiency is over, they go nuts. They storm the stage, and so they’re whipped right into a frenzy. You see ITs manifestation in that second, as a younger urchin boy, observing all this, and he is seeing precisely that.”
Fuchs continues and states that Pennywise is a “magnet for younger kids,” as he lures them together with his odd allure:
“Watching IT perceive that and notice all that’s a part of the enjoyable of that episode and a part of the enjoyable of unraveling the thriller. However once more, I hope we go away the viewers with further mysteries to consider within the context of 1908. What did occur to Bob Grey as soon as he went into the woods? We do not actually know. We all know that Ingrid Kersh says she by no means noticed her father once more. Was his physique discovered? We noticed the bloody kerchief. There’s numerous thriller there.”
Robert “Bob” Grey, in Stephen King’s unique novel, is the identify IT states to the character Goergie as his actual identify. Grey was a human born in the UK and arrived in america with little to no cash. He started enjoying a clown named Pennywise round 1908, which was the start of the corrupted model of IT.
Throughout the 1935 cycle, his daughter Ingrid Kersh, who’s now grown, has encountered IT taking the type of Pennywise, and believes that her father is being possessed and hopes to launch him. Fuchs continues and goes into depth on how Bob Grey discovered himself within the woods earlier than vanishing:
“And who was that child that IT was within the type of? I get that IT took the type of that child to lure Bob Grey into the woods, that tracks. However after we first see that child, it is earlier than IT has made the conclusion that he even desires to try this. So, what is the story behind that manifestation? There are various recent mysteries, I feel, urged by a number of the solutions to mysteries we supplied within the season. And I hope that these mysteries are as satisfying to the following technology of IT followers as the unique mysteries in it had been to me.”
It’s clear that there are many mysteries and unanswered questions in IT: Welcome to Derry, and it isn’t solely assured that every one of these questions will probably be answered, however seeing extra into the lifetime of Bob has been eye-opening, and followers are awaiting the following episode for much more mysteries to unravel.
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