r/TheDarkTower

In an interview promoting Carrie he again explained “it’s an oil tanker if a project moving rights around” and again explained “we are constantly working on it”

But then explained “the logistics of the thing, the legal logistics are beyond intimidating, it’s a wild thing. One of these days”

I’m sure you guys may be getting tired of people posting about it here which I sympathize with but holy crap this is an all timer in the blue ball department.

How do you guys feel about this situation? More hopefully than me?

1. Its implied that Roland is a different person in this new run as hes carrying the horn. But how does that work when hes reset back to the desert? Or is he reset from birth? But how does anything he learned transfer over? Does it imply that even his past can change such as never losing Susan? Maybe I missed some key dialog here that explained

2. If Eddie is Cuthbert and Jake is Alain. Who are Susannah and Oi? Or is it not really important that eddie and jake are pseudo resurrections of his old friends personalities and it just ended up working that way.

3)If Roland gets reset, does the universe get reset and Susannah gets reset too? Or is she living happily ever after with Temu Eddie and Jake?

4)Did anyone else feel like King built up the tick tock man so much to be some greater villain only for him to just die unceremoniously in wizard and glass. All villains honestly share this same fate. Man in black and even the crimson king.

5)What would have happened if Susannah joined Roland to the tower and went inside? What would happen to her?

6)What were peoples reactions to Stephen king being a major character as the series was being made?

7)What were some popular theories that people had for the series as it was going on?

8)Finally everyones favorite question what order would you rate the books? For me Drawing,Wizard,Wolves,Wasteland, Song, Dark Tower, Gunslinger

So I've been anticipating Mike Flanagan's DT series for years now. I was familiar with the books and read the 1st one years ago. After finally reading the series, the part that I really want to see is Roland dancing the Commola at the town hall when they get to Calla. How would that translate to visual media and what would Flanagan and co decide to do with it? It's one of the parts of the book that stuck with me, along with many others. Obviously Oy doing his thing and bowing with his paws out too. I hope Amazon and him get the licensing buttoned up so we can all follow the beam again, as ka-tet, and share the experience together as tower junkies.

As a 45 year old man who's been reading SK since I was a kid, this series changed the way I view the world and I'm the better for it.

Edit: spelling

I've just finished Wolves of the Calla and it was brilliant! It is essentially a 700+ page side quest for ka-tet but I think it fits perfectly into the overall story and quest for the Tower.

It was fairly/slow paced at times but there is just enough fuel sprinkled in to start some fires and keep the pages turning with a good ending to an SK book? Never! Haha

Onwards, we move to The Tower!

I’m desperate to do a read along of Other Worlds Than These with them…I can’t be the only one!

Flanagan essentially says that one thing holding up the series is the rights to other books that crossover. At risk of spoilers, I wont mention them here.

Could we see more adaptations of THOSE connected stories?

Ok, so I just finished The Dark Tower, and holy sh**. What an absolutely perfect ending. I’m still in shock. How is this series not more well known and discussed?! What a journey and what a story! Let’s palaver (via comments, lol)

Book 1 - The mountains were visible in the distance practically from the start. Though the desert was punishing and the mountains gruelling, there wasn’t all THAT much distance traveled.

Book 2 - The Tet wasn’t even along the path of the Beam in this one; they traveled north the entire time. The entire distance was implied to be maybe one or two hundred miles.

Book 3 - This is when they traveled at least a few hundred miles through the forest and on to Lud, and then - whoops! The train just carried them more than EIGHT THOUSAND fucking miles!

Book 4 - Nearly all flashback. The travel that does occur is mostly along one stretch of highway in another world where the glass palace is visible in the distance from the beginning. MAYBE a few dozen miles away, tops

Book 5 - Other than the beginning few miles through the forest, most of the book takes place with no travel whatsoever as they plot to save the children of Calla Brynn Sturgis

Book 6 - Was there technically ANY actual travel in this one? The majority takes place in Keystone NYC and Maine, but through magic and technological doors rather than walking. Same with the parts that do occur in Mid-World (Fedic)

Book 7 - This one definitely contains the second greatest total walking distance. Still, that only occurs in the second half. The first half is actually mostly BACKTRACKING. Once the Tet is ready to leave Fedic though, other than …a rather significant trip back to Keystone, there’s probably a few hundred miles of distance between Fedic, the Badlands, the castles, Empathica, and the Tower. Even so, Fedic is already described in Song of Susannah as “very close” to the Tower.

Conclusion - nearly the entire quest was absolutely CARRIED by Blaine lol

Spoilers for The Dark Tower, “Everything’s Eventual,” and maybe The Institute.

I picked up Everything’s Eventual for “The Little Sisters of Eluria.” Came for Roland, stayed for Dinky.

Somehow, I had completely missed that the title story gives us Dinky Earnshaw’s origin story. Until now, I’d only known him as one of the heroes of the Battle of Algul Siento. Finding him here was a fantastic surprise…and Justin Long absolutely nails the audiobook narration.

Dinky’s voice makes the story for me. He’s funny, blunt, and oddly likable, even as you start realizing just how disturbing his “gift” is.

So why doesn’t Dinky, and “Everything’s Eventual” seem to get the same love in Tower discussions as Ted Brautigan and Hearts in Atlantis? Ted deserves his flowers, but this feels like a great piece of the larger story that I somehow walked right past.

Did anyone else discover Dinky’s backstory after finishing the Tower? Did it change how you saw him at Algul Siento?

P.S. In my opinion, this story ALSO makes the connection between The Institute, The Breakers, and the Tower universe feel pretty damn firm.