I want to preface, I've never read the books, and never will, I just can't get into any books. Even if I did read it, I'd probably just forget most things, so hopefully, you guys can help me fill in some gaps I've seen, that still bothers me

1) Why is Thomas seen as more "curious" than everyone else at the Glade? Alby makes it seem like everyone just followed along, but Thomas questioned everything, but why? Why only Thomas keeps insisting, but apparently no one else did?

2) Why does all the changes to the maze and whatnot happen RIGHT AS THOMAS ENTERS THE MAZE? It's as Gally said, everything prior to Thomas was "normal" or typical to his routine since he's been there. Why did things start to change just because of Thomas? Is it ONLY because they killed Griever? SO if Thomas came in, but didn't kill the Griever, things would've been the same as before?

3) Why is Gally so mad at Thomas just because things "changed" following Thomas's coming? Is it just because his "world" has been turned upside down following said events, so he wants to pin the blame on someone?

OG:

Scorch trials

Crank palace

Death cure

Maze runner

Prequel:

Kill order

Fever code

Sequel:

Godhead complex

Maze cutter

Infinite glade

Read the first 5 books a while ago but just found out about these today

Rereading the maze runner for the first time in a good while. Thomas is naturally pretty confused about everything but it feels people are super slow to tell him things.

Everyone else was in Thomas' position at some stage so they know how he'd feel. I don't get why they wouldn't just fill him in more. Would also give him maybe more of an idea of hoe things are around the Glade and he can help more and be more clued in.

i was aware of the fact that they were bad before, but i keep being surprised with the level of cruelty.

i am reading the fever code right now, i havent finished the book yet. what catches me off guard is how cruel WICKD was to torture Minho for trying to run away and desensitizing Thomas and Teresa so much that they casually wonder about who will die first in one of their convos. prolly the most fucked up thing that caught my eye so far was the fact that right before the start of the "maze project" Theresa and Tom are integrated into group A after being kept apart for so long...

while i was reading i kept thinking about the fact that Thomas and Theresa probably watched Newt trying to off himself... do you think they somehow saved him?

finished the infinite glade today and well that was disappointing.

So many plotlines went absolutely nowhere. I originally thought i would list them all but its too much. They resolved only maybe some like remnant nation and Minho/Alexandria stuff which was well done imo. Love minho and roxy.

The entire Isaac/Ximena subplot was useless. Who the hell are the sequencers and why should I care about them. These district 13 ahh apparent families of gladers have no consequence to the story?

What got me into the maze cutter to begin with was this opportunity of the cure that was set up from the end of the death cure. Idk maybe the idea of “there was no cure to begin with” worked for some people but it didn’t for me. It would have been cathartic to finally get a cure for the flare and maybe the remnant nation (reformed now led by Minho) could have distributed and eliminated this scourge of the Flare once and for all finally.

And to do this if they had to spew some bullshit about Newt’s bloodline (another MASSIVE plotline which was never resolved btw, why tf was newt special? What was sadina’s blood for? What did Annie kletter come to the island for if they already had the sequencer cure in the Villa?) i would have drank the kool aid lmao. The Newt novella is one of my favourite things in this verse and i don’t mind him getting the spotlight so would have worked for me.

Overall, this entire book confused me from the beginning. Nothing got resolved and alexandria kept rambling the fibonnaci sequence on and on.

The project is not done yet

so i haven't really found any information about what the accident actually was or how it happened but to my understanding the movie originally started filming in 2016 but they only got to film for a few days before Dylan had his accident. then filming began again about a year later (?) in 2017 but this one year break in filming also delayed the release of the movie by about a year. which i suppose is also the main reason behind the longer gap between the 2nd and 3rd movie (as compared to the gap between the 1st and 2nd movie, TMR in 2014, TST in 2015 and TDC in 2018).

anyways i'm getting a bit sidetracked here :D the reason i started writing this post was that i started wondering if anyone knows how many scenes they got to film before the accident and during which scene the accident happened? and did they start all over again in 2017 when filming began again or are there also scenes in the movie that were filmed in 2016 before the accident? not that it would really make any difference i mean people don't usually change that much in a year (in terms of appearance) that i don't think it would be in any way noticeable. but i guess the thought of some of the scenes being from before the accident is just a bit eerie because at least from what i've understood (and also just considering the fact that Dylan needed like a year to recover) the accident was pretty serious. so the possibility that there could be scenes in the movie filmed even on the day of the accident it's like this "moments before disaster" type of thing i guess.

or maybe i'm just overthinking and this post is totally stupid :D still if anyone actually knows more about this/has answers to my (possibly stupid) questions it would be cool to know :DDD

To me Yes WCKD was actually good it was a necessity not a cruelty it was the only high chance way and time was running out it was an absolute necessity. Their other good deed is protecting 107,000 innocent people into a functioning 2.5km diameter city and gave them a normal life, a piece of how life used to looked like they managed to build that in the middle of nowhere in an infected and scorched world. The people lived a relatively normal life their kids go to school, they go to work, they go home, and meet their families and who gave this? the exact organization that torture kids. It was a necessity WCKD is good. even though WCKD's method was incredibly horrific (first of all, it was a necessity) there's a stance horrific means to a heroic good their goal was UNDENIABLY GOOD it ain't power or hunger it's replication and distribution of the cure to the mass to save humanity from extinction. Thomas is selfish in his own way. By refusing to cooperate with WCKD for a cure, he and his friends essentially doomed the remaining uninfected population to a slow agonizing death. They didn't care about anyone but themselves. They didn't care if not cooperating with WCKD meant millions of deaths, as long as they can live a comfortable life in a beautiful beach. WCKD didn't fail because their logic and science was wrong, they were right! Under extreme stress, those immunes produced a unique chemical for the cure, they only failed because Thomas and right arm kept sabotaging them, if they didn't do that, they just need to catch Thomas, and the world is restored! Moreover Thomas should've cooperated from the start and another moreover he knew he was the cure before WCKD he knew it in the end of scorch trials seeing how Brenda healed from the enzyme in his blood he should've surrendered from there

hey guys! I want to get into maze runner fanfic and I wanted to know is there any must read ones?thanks in advance for any suggestions

I feel like it should be about a maze mainly because that's what the first movie was about and what made everyone so interested in the series. It's also to attract new fans so it's clear that since it won't be a reboot nor a sequel/prequel, it could be a story about another one. New fans could connect to this fan and move the story forward.

So what are your theories about the story or expectations ?

Am I the only one who really hopes we get a trilogy for the girls’ maze?? I feel like it would be so interesting to explore so we could get a better understanding of the characters.

I honestly feel like it would be more popular than the Maze Cutter trilogy because vast majority of the fandom are very attached to the OG characters from Group A and getting to see them again which would draw in fans to read it.

It would also would be wonderful to see more love for the girls in the fandom given how the main characters are all men.

I just feel like it’s got so much potential to explore!!

Concept art project for my portfolio, based on the first movie!

Do you think Teresa did or did not have all her memories wiped going into the maze? There are conflicting answers in the books, based off the prequel and such.

honestly I think The Fever Code ending is a retcon rather than something Dashner had planned from Book 1 it makes no sense with the context of the other books but if you had to make sense of it what do you think.

I think that maybe she thought she wasn't going to lose her memories, but then she did lose her memories.

I remember watching this scene in the film and it put the biggest smile on my face. Great character development from Gally, and a nice reveal.

"Rose took my nose, I suppose." what the fuck does it mean????? i'm so confused rn

this is one of the scariest and funniest lines in the entire book, i genuinely have no idea how to feel about it

EDIT 8/27/26: i finished tst!!!! yay!!! and it has no deeper meaning

So I just finished reading the main series and fever code. I had seen the movies before but was very interested in reading the books. Here are some of my takeaways

Fever code gave me all the things I wanted to know after watching the movies. Really appreciated the back story. I will say found scorch trails to be my least favorite. I think it was just slow in places. Didn’t like Teresa at all in the movies but liked her in the series. Newt broke my heart into a million pieces in the books vs the movie. Also, book Minho > Movie Minho.

Also, glad to have someone to talk to about this so many years later.

by "it," i mean the gladers from group A all being named after really smart, successful people? did you find it shocking, or was it in plain sight?(keep in mind, i've only read to chap. 10 of scorch trials, so no spoilers for things that happen post-chapter 10)

I have not seen the movies, but I listened to the books on audio. there's a memory that Thomas gets back in a dream where he's talking to his mom, and there's another younger boy there who is portrayed as Thomas's brother (calling Thomas's mom "mommy"). in the audiobooks, the narrator uses Chucks voice to voice the little boy, and I always thought it would be revealed later in the books via Thomas's memories that Chuck was Thomas's little brother. but Thomas never gets his memories back and this revelation never happens. anyone else disappointed that Thomas never got his full set of memories back?

I'm very conflicted about this question.

(Note that I'm arguing from the movies viewpoint)

Just hear me out on this, WCKD already managed to program them to do whatever and from that scene in Scorch Trials that they were clearly breeding more. So in my opinion, it would've just made more sense to have it be grievers that chase the runners across the scorch and the grievers being used to defend The Last City. It sort of brings everything full circle in my eyes with the runners being chased by the same thing across 3 movies. Grievers.

Asking because the comment section of a YouTube video won't shut up about it and I haven't read the series in a decade