 Hello everybody, Ian here. Welcome back to another Stephen King spoiler discussion. Today we are talking about Stephen King's The Institute. Spoiler warning, spoiler warning, spoiler warning. If you have not read this book or you care about spoilers, GTFO please and thank you. I don't want to hear anything down there in the comments. I'm like oh my god you spoiled me. Spiled me? Yes, spoiled you too. So yeah we're going to talk about almost note for note what happens in this book because I loved, loved, loved everything. So the book opens up with Tim Jamison. Tim Jamison is a disgraced cop. He heard some ruckus at the mall and he went to go check it out and he shot his gun. He did a warning shot which cops aren't supposed to do to begin with but then a light fixture fell and knocked some kid out and he was disgraced and he was fired and told to move on. He tries to get onto a plane. He gets onto the plane and something tells him to get the hell off the plane. So gets off the plane. This was a brilliant move on Stephen King's part because I'm like okay so we're going to find out that you know somebody on the plane was psychic and that's how we end up in the institute and maybe he becomes a security guard at the institute whatever. And maybe you know it was one of those psychic things that made him get off it whatever. That doesn't happen. What happens is he ends up hitchhiking to a town in Dupre, South Carolina. He gets there. He ends up taking a job as a night knocker. Basically it's you know what what we did before social media and telephones and all that stuff just walked around town or alarm systems that kind of thing just walked around town knocking on doors to make sure businesses were secure to make sure people were all right just checking up on the town so he gets that job. That goes so well. He ends up stopping a well not stopping he ends up stumbling across a robbery and that scene with the shop owner getting shot was an amazing scene for me. I loved it. I was so I had such concern for this person that I hadn't even met in the book yet. That's an amazing feat. After that he gets promoted. He hasn't yet been promoted. He's still a night knocker but you know that he is going to end up taking over the deputy position and the old deputy is going to become the night knocker because he doesn't really want to do the deputy job anymore. And then we don't hear anything from Tim Jamison and that whole crew oh orphan Annie. I hope I don't forget to talk about her at the end let's just talk about her now. Orphan Annie is a homeless lady who believes that they are after her just the they she's a conspiracy theorist she listens to a show that is hosted by George Alman about aliens the government secret organizations all that stuff I loved loved the orphan Annie character I loved her whole character art this is so much fun reading her because she comes across as batshit crazy but she is the only one who's in the no spoilers of course it's spoiler discussion let's keep on spoiling it then we jump from that we completely live leave Tim Jamison storyline behind say goodbye just wait we end up jumping into the shoes of Luke who is a little boy he's a precocious he's a brilliant he's a genius and he also has a little bit of the movie movie like Carrie which is very important here we'll get into all that stuff in my Thursday theorist so please leave all those comments for that video next week but we things go off the rails very quickly he is kidnapped and his mother and father are brutally murdered um in I guess in an attempt to have no one looking for him and the people who kidnap him are institute employees they steal him they run off with him and then we are introduced to all of these kids in the institute you know Kalisha who was fantastic Avery Avster was amazing loved loved that character he's probably my favorite kid character in the book other than Luke Kalisha is great too then you have Nick you have Iris you have so many different people but the the big bully guy I can't remember what his name is I loved the when he showed up but all the time you find out that they they need to have tokens to to you know buy what is it sweets and cigarettes and wine and that's when the book started to feel like Pinocchio for me King even references that it's like Pinocchio in the book when Pinocchio ends up going to what is the fantasy island I can't remember what it's called it's not fantasy island that's the old television show but whatever it was a paradise island or whatever he goes through and he ends up becoming a donkey there's so many parallels between King's story and Pinocchio that I kind of feel that that's what he was going for I mean for him to have mentioned it in there it feels that way also the book when he when Luke finally gets to the institute the book started to feel like what would have happened had Charlie from fire starter if she had been telepathic or telekinetic if she had been that instead of you know Bernie Bernie if they had actually if the shop had actually caught Charlie this is what would have ended up happening to her she would end up being here now there's no pyrokinesis this doesn't tie into any of Stephen King's work it does all over the place but not there's no hard connects as in sequels or continuations so you don't have to worry about that but if you're already here you already know that if you're hearing this video um the we're introduced to uh mrs sigsby um who's a devil there's just a horrible terrible uh human being but she's a terrible horrible human being with a cause and that's what makes her so so terrifying um she has what is the guy that's named stackhouse I can't remember her her kind of I guess he's kind of her equal maybe just below her and he ends up taking over the at the institute after six b goes to chase down Luke and why does she go to chase down Luke because he ends up escaping from the institute I thought everything leading up to that was terrific I was enthralled I had a good time but his escape what his escape blew my mind it was so much fun to read about this kid going through the woods going through this town going through going getting on a boat which is one of the reasons why I like the UK cover more than I like the institute cover I mean the the American cover because the boat makes more sense to me than the train even though he spends a lot of time on the train his room isn't on the train so that the this this this cover uh is not to my liking but the uh and that's a train if you can't see it um that's a train that his room's in there but uh one of the things that the institute institute that I thought was cool was all of their rooms are like their rooms at home almost it's very close it's almost like a twilight zone kind of deal because they're all just a little bit off uh but then once he escapes and he gets on the train everything unfolds as you would think that's something like that would unfold um it is a little convenient that the one person that he meets along the way um that is kind of uh sympathetic to his plight uh he does have his he ends up having to cut his ear off uh to remove the tracker uh that was convenient also not going to lie but it these things didn't bother me it's just things that I noted that they put the tracker somewhere that was easily removed um and I mean I know it's hard to think about cutting your ear lobe off but it's much easier than if they had embedded in his chest you know or in his back knee or whatever um so he ends up escaping and the there's one person he bumps into on the way on the train gives him some food and he's he ends up making it to dupré south carolina where he finally about page 400 and something finally bumps into tim jamison and we're back to square one tim helps him out he's he's very suspicious uh he looks beat up and abused so they believe his story and they they believe that he's you know he's in trouble they just think he's making up this story that he was locked up in the institute but while he was at the institute he met marine marine was a lady with cancer who helped him escape and she gave him a thumb drive where she explains what's going on and then she took video of what was going on the only real horror element in this book is the the back half of back half I think um that was very horrifying to see the kids what they are reduced to uh they're at the end uh before they are just completely used up and just basically turned into batteries um for the institute and we're gonna get to why in a second but uh the the shootout in in town when the uh when the institute folks show up in dupré that was fantastic man I had a lot of fun the book does slow down a little bit when they're trying to get back to the institute but that was fine for me because I like these characters and I really didn't want the book to end but then we finally get back to the institute and all the kids have come together to you know charge up and get all their power in one place and they find out that there's other institutes in all these other places and all these different international you know different these different countries that are not in america and they're several different ones and they they link minds with those kids and the fucking institute they they lift it off the ground and drop it on the other half I thought that was amazing it's such a cool concept and it's so much fun I love how six v dies getting your ass shot up in the car after a uh not avery but after uh luke trickster I thought that was that was fantastic um so much fun uh but the the book ends perfectly there's even a little maybe exposition a little too much explaining there at the end but we had to know right I want to know if it was the shop I and of course I think it's the shop I think it's just called something different I'm pretty sure this is the shop that has been working to gather all this intelligence all this time but we learned that what the institute was doing was preventing the end of civilization by nuclear war by radiation fallout whatever you want to call it by nuclear war any of that stuff I just said nuclear war twice but um any of those things biochemical war any of those things that's what they've been doing they've been using the children to assassinate these uh almost like in a minority report uh kind of storyline where they use these precogs precognitives um who know the future and then they discuss the uh the ambivalence of whether or not the precogs are actually predicting the future or it's just they are predicting maybe one timeline so many questions there at the end don't get me wrong this isn't an open-ended book I feel everything is wrapped up in the story is there a possibility that we could move on and find out more about these precogs yeah there could is he gonna write a sequel I have no idea but uh the the way the book ends I I just I was I was left with this with this huge question why why would we do such a thing to these children to drain them to make them batteries to save ourselves but the answer is of course what we would um we would sacrifice the smaller of us I mean we do it nowadays we would sacrifice the smaller of us to maintain the status quo um and I said this in my uh non spoiler review but it it's it's enlightening at least for me an eye opening I said it's things that I've thought about before but it really really dug deep it dug its claws into me reading this book it's like how far are we willing to go to make sure that we are all right as long as it's not happening to us how far are we willing to go and of course most of us hopefully would say you know we would choose not to torture children to make sure that there's no nuclear war but would we really giving given that you know torture children or die in nuclear war how many of us truly would pick nuclear war and the destruction of mankind that is a fascinating question and there's no good answer to either side of it I dig that shit so anyways that's that's what I loved about this um I I talked more about stuff that I love that's non-spoilery so if you haven't watched my just my regular review go check that one out it was uploaded just before this one uh I had a lot of fun with this book man and I the more I think about it the more I like it it's the exact opposite of elevation and sleeping beauty swear the more I thought about it the more I hated it um and I'm sure there's probably plot holes or something or whatever I just don't care man I really don't it was one of those things just like with the Hodges trilogy the first book I just didn't care if there were plot holes it was a fun read I loved reading the book I love the characters well Hodges I could have done with that I know that's weird since he's the main character in verse two but Holly Gibney was amazing are you excited for if it bleeds are you because I know I am so anyways this is a spoiler discussion so talk about what you liked and what you didn't like down there in the comments below if I don't respond to your didn't likes it's probably because I don't want to think about the didn't likes so I apologize but if you want to talk about what you like I will happily talk about that not saying I won't respond to your didn't likes but I might not just don't take it personally it's just because I love this book so damn much I hope that makes sense but until next time I have been a you've been you this been another Stephen King spoiler discussion review I'll talk to you guys later bye bye