Japanese crossword «Turtle»

At first I thought it was a head on a pike, haha. It's actually quite a good picture.

I saw a turtle, now of course I see a head on a pike :-)

That is some timing. I was just re-reading some sections of Stephen King's "IT," for my Film in Literature class. And in conjunction with that, I had to watch the 2017 film - which I was avoiding. When it comes to Stephen King adaptations, I tend to be a purist.

It sounded like the stupidest idea, to split a book into two films, when the childrens' and adults' timelines are 100% interwoven in the book, and almost every event in the past is told via a flashback experienced in the present. The stories are meant to run in a parallel format, separating them changes almost everything about the narrative. And I didn't even know they moved both timelines ahead 30 years, so that the kid's story now takes place in 1988 instead of 1958! Talk about loose adaptation!

But anyway, there were some small allusions to this character in the film, that really got me thinking of how lesser any adaptation of this book is, without the explicit inclusion of the...

...Maturin, the Great Turtle!