He'd tripped himself up - until he realized that a bomb in the Boulder Free Zone was a handy way to curtail some of them and streamline his plot. In his memoir On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, he detailed how at one point the book almost went off the rails entirely because he'd run out too many narrative threads. King has been open in the past about his difficulties writing The Stand, the novel still considered by many fans (myself included) to be his finest work. **SPOILER WARNING! There are spoilers for The Stand Episode 9, "The Circle Closes," below.** Now the series finale, and King's new ending, has arrived, and with it comes a poignant answer to one of the biggest lingering question in the author's massive body of work. For longtime Stephen King fans, though, the most tantalizing thing about the miniseries was a new contribution from King himself: A much-hyped "coda" scene that would offer some new sense of resolution to the epic tale of light versus darkness at the end of the world. There were a lot of reasons to look forward to the sprawling new adaptation of The Stand on CBS All Access when it launched last year, from its all-star cast to the possibility that it would offer hope in a dark time with its tale of pandemic survivors banding together to vanquish evil.
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