Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

Once I reviewed each of his works in the chronological order of publication, but caa is a wheel, it all goes round again, and here I am once more back at the beginning on a new phase of the journey, here to examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King,

to determine whether or not King deserves his reputation for having an inability to successfully

land his endings.

In the previous episode, I announced that as we moved forward, the focus of the podcast would

be to examine specifically the climax, falling action, and resolution of the endings of each

of his novels and break it down by characters, themes, conflict, and resolution of the endings of each of his novels

and break it down by characters, themes, conflict, and plot to determine whether or not it meets

the criteria of being an objectively good ending. It will also weigh in on whether or not I happen

to personally like the ending. So there's going to be a lot of objective, a little bit of subjective

to see where the ending

falls within that spectrum.

And at the end of each of the episodes, as we make our way forward, I will have the tally

of how many of the endings that I have reviewed are objectively good based on the criteria that I have put forth

and how much of the ones I happen to like based on the subjectivity of it all.

So that actually kind of opens it up to a pretty important discussion as we move forward

because I think that a lot of the times when we discuss

or, you know, us armchair critics out there or even podcasters, you know, who make a living

off of it, I think a lot of the times we, we conflate these two criteria whether whether it was good or whether

we liked it and i have really made an effort over the last few years to draw a line in the sand

and be able to acknowledge that something can be objectively good, but it just might not be something

that I personally respond to.

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