"I forgot it was a mini-series. I always remembered it as a movie." Then he remembers: Caps had bragged about stopping the VHS from recording during the commercials.
Rich has to force himself to calm down, to stop letting the fear control him. It's hard when he's this close to the ground, hard to feel brave when it doesn't feel like fire is flowing through his veins like it's supposed to.
But he knows just like Robbie does that in a place ruled by belief, by thoughts and feelings and fears, that Robbie's possibly going to have some trouble. His friend is going to need him -- and he's going to need Robbie, too. Rich knows he also has a few things working against him here. One: he's got some pretty terrible fears and memories to draw from. The bugs. The Phalanx. The Many-Angled Ones. And more.
Two: the whole 'believe in yourself' angle to this has never really been Rich's forte.
It's a sobering thought. They can't panic. They have to look out for each other.
"I dunno, but whatever we do, we stick together. I don't care if any of the fake adults try to pull us apart. Starting now, we call a permanent sleepover. We need to make sure neither of us is ever alone."
That was the ticket in the miniseries.
"That's what it took, right? A bunch of kids sticking together, looking out for each other. We've already done that. We already were a bunch of dumb kids looking out for each other, it's just this time we don't have superpowers."
But they also were in a world that didn't necessarily require them. That was the point of the thing, that a bunch of powerless kids had been able to fight a monster with just the power of belief and friendship.
"Hopefully, it's not just us in here. There's got to be some of the other Legionnaires, right? Probably in the roles of some of the other kids. We just have to find them."
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Rich has to force himself to calm down, to stop letting the fear control him. It's hard when he's this close to the ground, hard to feel brave when it doesn't feel like fire is flowing through his veins like it's supposed to.
But he knows just like Robbie does that in a place ruled by belief, by thoughts and feelings and fears, that Robbie's possibly going to have some trouble. His friend is going to need him -- and he's going to need Robbie, too. Rich knows he also has a few things working against him here. One: he's got some pretty terrible fears and memories to draw from. The bugs. The Phalanx. The Many-Angled Ones. And more.
Two: the whole 'believe in yourself' angle to this has never really been Rich's forte.
It's a sobering thought. They can't panic. They have to look out for each other.
"I dunno, but whatever we do, we stick together. I don't care if any of the fake adults try to pull us apart. Starting now, we call a permanent sleepover. We need to make sure neither of us is ever alone."
That was the ticket in the miniseries.
"That's what it took, right? A bunch of kids sticking together, looking out for each other. We've already done that. We already were a bunch of dumb kids looking out for each other, it's just this time we don't have superpowers."
But they also were in a world that didn't necessarily require them. That was the point of the thing, that a bunch of powerless kids had been able to fight a monster with just the power of belief and friendship.
"Hopefully, it's not just us in here. There's got to be some of the other Legionnaires, right? Probably in the roles of some of the other kids. We just have to find them."