honestly something that loses me with it 2017 and it 2019 is how the losers club are depicted as normal kids/adults reacting to it. the whole point of the book is that they are not normal. they are seven insane little weirdos who can nearly read each other’s minds and are tied together in a fucked up web of fate and love. they were brought together by a force bigger than them so much so that they seemed real to each other in a way other kids didn’t, and when they came back to derry and realized what was going on they knew it was something they had to complete. they all kept this promise from when they were ten years old because they knew they had to be the ones to do it. they are not normal people in extraordinary circumstances they are the extraordinary circumstances created to stop it. when ben is walking around derry and has an encounter with pennywise he thinks:
and as much as the vote feels like a joke to ben, it still aligns with their fated fight with it. they have a love for each other as strong as the fate that brought them together. that’s insane. that’s beautiful. even when they forget each other for nearly thirty years they all make the choice to stay and help mike. when they can’t remember anything they have their love for each other. because nothing lasts forever, except maybe for love and desire and friendship
