Tina Blake

They do, but they don't operate in a vacuum.

They need the background noise of the high school to provide cover for their actions, which brings us to the final fascinating piece of the casting puzzle, Tina Blake and Norma Watson.

The interchangeable mean girls.

The foot soldiers of the social hierarchy.

This is where we see exactly how adaptations treat source material like a buffet line, picking and choosing based on the specific needs of the era.

The text points out that Stephen King wrote Tina and Norma as two distinct characters on the prom committee.

Right.

But the cinematic history is a bizarre game of musical chairs.