Because the idea that Margaret has active psychic powers is complete nonsense made up by modern writers who don’t understand the source material.
In Stephen King’s novel, telekinesis isn’t a secret witch family power fantasy. It is an explicit, dormant sex-linked genetic trait. Margaret was simply a carrier who passed the mutation down, she had zero telekinetic ability, zero magic and zero powers to "hide" or "refuse to tap into."
The entire horror of Margaret White is that she is a regular, unhinged human fanatic whose only weapon was psychological and physical domestic torture. Turning her into a closeted psychic who secretly suppresses her own "gifts" completely cheapens King’s point: Margaret wasn't battling supernatural urges, she was a sadistic religious abuser who broke her child with a broom handle and a Bible.
Stop turning Stephen King’s grounded domestic tragedy into an X-Men mutant dynasty. #carrie
People insisting that the tiger should have been shot to save this guy are operating from the same riak-elimination mindset that has led to "don't exit bus until it stops moving" signs.
From all accounts it was extraordinarily difficult to get into the tiger cage. You couldn't just accidentally fall in, or hop over a waist-high railing. The guy had to scale a tall fence, and apparently did so after fighting off people who tried to stop him.
So then people will say oh, the fence should have been taller, or it should have been topped with concertina wire, or it should have been entirely enclosed. Fine, you do that, and then someone even more suicidally determined comes along and finds a way through r additional expensive security measures. They bring wire cutters or something. So then that doesn't work, and people say ok, well zoos just shouldn't have tigers then, they're too dangerous, retards might get hurt, we need to cull the tigers to save the retards.
So then no one gets to enjoy tigers and tigers go extinct.
Designing our entire society around the tail risks created by the most retarded people in society is, in fact, retarded. The purpose of society should not be insulating the stupidest among us from the consequences of their idiocy.
I saw a herd of deer today.
One of them stood up on its hind legs and pointed straight at the camera. It had human eyes and mouthed my full legal name.
I was a little freaked out, but then it walked straight into traffic got hit by a truck, so I guess it's fine.
One of the worst developments in contemporary literature is this idea that protagonists have to be "relatable."
Raskolnikov is a murderer. Humbert Humbert is a monster. Emma Bovary is an adulteress.
Literature isn't supposed to introduce you to people you'd like to have brunch with. It's supposed to teach you how a wide variety of people think.
Writers rooms need more assholes bc what the fuck is this touchy feely shit. The tragedy of Carrie is that you do come to love and care about the girl and she still kills an entire gym full of kids. What do you MEAN you don't want her to be a monster you fucking poser.
@sheepshekets I know he'll find the way to Vegas. Maybe with the help of some computer generated graphics and legendary animators. And his human wife still sitting next to him in the car.