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 Ka is a wheel,

it all goes round again, and here I am once more back at the beginning of a new phase of the

journey to examine each of the endings of the works of Stephen King, to determine whether or not

King deserves the reputation that he has for having an

ability to successfully land his endings.

The focus of the podcast is going to be to examine the climax, the falling action, and the

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.

I'm also going to weigh in on whether or not I happen to like the ending itself, so we can start

to parse out the difference between objectivity and subjectivity when it comes to engaging

with the endings of Stephen King's works.

So I apologize, guys.

It's been a while.

It's been over 10 days since I released the last episode on Christine, which gave us the first break in terms of the objective and the subjective. Last week, if you remember, when discussing the ending of Christine,

based on the factors that went into the ending,

I could not give it the rating of being an objectively good ending

because it didn't really follow through with the character, the themes, or I don't

remember what I said about the plot, but it just felt less than. However, because Stephen King can

still write something that isn't inherently good in his sleep and somehow make it work.

I liked it. I liked the ending of Christine, but I don't happen to think that it's a good ending to what the

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