1990's It (TV Mini-Series) is based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. While going through our sister site's questions and the novel's Wikipedia page, I realized that Eddie had a wife in the novel, but in the miniseries he was single, living with his mother, and still a virgin. From the miniseries:

Richie: What are you saying, Eddie? You're still a virgin?

 

Eddie: Yeah.

 

Richie: Well I can't help you there, pal.
—IMDb

I know the miniseries changed a few things from the novel, but it kept the main characters the same. Why, then, was the choice made to have Eddie as a hopeless virgin?

1990's It (TV Mini-Series) is based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. While going through our sister site's questions and the novel's Wikipedia page, I realized that Eddie had a wife in the novel, but in the miniseries he was single, living with his mother, and still a virgin. From the miniseries:

Richie: What are you saying, Eddie? You're still a virgin?

Eddie: Yeah.

Richie: Well I can't help you there, pal.
—IMDb

I know the miniseries changed a few things from the novel, but it kept the main characters the same. Why, then, was the choice made to have Eddie as a hopeless virgin?

1990's It (miniseries) is based on the Stephen King novel by the same name. While going through our sister site's questions and the novel's Wikipedia page, I realized that Eddie had a wife in the novel but in miniseries he was single, living with his mother, and still a virgin. From the miniseries:

Richie: What are you saying, Eddie? You're still a virgin?

Eddie: Yeah.

Richie: Well I can't help you there, pal.  IMDb

I know the miniseries changed a few things from the novel, but it kept the main characters the same. Why, then, was the choice made to have Eddie as a hopeless virgin?

1990's It (TV Mini-Series) is based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. While going through our sister site's questions and the novel's Wikipedia page, I realized that Eddie had a wife in the novel, but in the miniseries he was single, living with his mother, and still a virgin. From the miniseries:

Richie: What are you saying, Eddie? You're still a virgin?

Eddie: Yeah.

Richie: Well I can't help you there, pal.
—IMDb

I know the miniseries changed a few things from the novel, but it kept the main characters the same. Why, then, was the choice made to have Eddie as a hopeless virgin?

1990's It (miniseries) is based on the novel of the same name and while going throw our sister SE site questionnaire and Novel's Wikipedia page, I realized that Eddie had a wife in the novel but in miniseries he was single, living with his mother and still a virgin, from the miniseries:

Richie: What are you saying, Eddie? You're still a virgin?

Eddie: Yeah.

Richie: Well I can't help you there, pal. IMDb

I know miniseries changed few things from the novel but kept the main characters same, then why made Eddie hopelessly virgin?

1990's It (miniseries) is based on the Stephen King novel by the same name. While going through our sister site's questions and the novel's Wikipedia page, I realized that Eddie had a wife in the novel but in miniseries he was single, living with his mother, and still a virgin. From the miniseries:

Richie: What are you saying, Eddie? You're still a virgin?

Eddie: Yeah.

Richie: Well I can't help you there, pal. IMDb

I know the miniseries changed a few things from the novel, but it kept the main characters the same. Why, then, was the choice made to have Eddie as a hopeless virgin?