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Did Your Wishes Come True?-- SPOILERS
I went back to retrieve some of the things I hoped would be resolved - this is what I wrote in early July:
Well. Patrick certainly got resolved - at least mentioned and then some.
I was mega-happy that Roland kept his promise of the cross for Talitha.
Obviously Tyler's importance was confined within Black House. :)
Blu, , I would keep your list (who doesn't want to hear about Jack Sawyer again!! ), but for me, I would move Patrick Danville (Insomnia) and Rose Madder to at least mentioned.. Insomnia had enough DT tie-ins that it's well-deserved and Rose Madder, although it's not one of my favourites, really piqued my curiousity as far as possible tie-ins go.
There is also a small matter from the Wastelands (involving Talitha Unwin) that I want to see if it is brought to a resolution, or whether it was more anecdotal.
Firestarter is not one of my favourites either, never has been.
Lin
Well. Patrick certainly got resolved - at least mentioned and then some.
I was mega-happy that Roland kept his promise of the cross for Talitha. I'm going to add another one to your list....
Tyler from Black House; I'd like to see what his importance is in the wrap-up....
Obviously Tyler's importance was confined within Black House. :)
Comments
Darth Pookie, why are you just a "guest" now - where's your cute little moving avatar? Nice to see you!
Lin
None turned out like I expected but that's what i like about the book... and SK
He writes for nobody's expectation. This has become among my faves in the series. Magnificent
Is one of the permanent fixtures here
That's why people probably see DTUK as always here.
*Hi Dukky*
So, not too bad. And there were plenty of surprises to make up for the wishes I didn't get.
HBJ,
who just finished DTVII this morning.
I was hoping Flagg would die some unimaginable, horrible, painful death, which he did, but in a very anti-climatic way I think. That may not make sense, but to me, he was smart enough to live all those years, and he was outwitted by a baby/spider?
If that's the only thing I could say I was dissapointed in, somewhat, and it was, then it's something I'll overlook. ;D
CC, I agree.. did you see my comments at SKBB? I was like.... Mordred??? I didn't think he deserved to be Flagg's executioner. But.. I loved this book overall also.
Lin
The only stuff that bothers me in the series has to do with the keystone. That seems like a plot device to lend urgency to the situation, but it creates a number of interesting paradoxes.
Take Mose Carver for example- how can he be the same Mose Carver that is Susannah's godfather if he is from keystone and she is not.
Overall, though, I loved it. great book, great series, just don't spend much time nitpicking it, or you will drive yourself nuts (I know, I used to be much worse about nitpicking than I am now).
Definetly a case of Curiosity Killed the Cat...
That was always Flagg's failing, not taking care of the small details...
I would have loved to have seen him have a showdown with Roland, but for his character, he ended as he was meant too...by dying to a superior opponent, where he had always believed himself to be superior.
Was very cool seeing where he originated from also - Walter Padkin...
Dukky, I know, but it wasn't the greatest showdown in the west, was it? :-/ Although on a gross factor it was pretty good.
Lin
It is like Sk was thinking of doing that, and then he was like "f*** it, let's just kill the bastard here".
So, he bit the dust rather prematurely...
Hands up to Mordred mind you for taking Flagg out so quickly and efficienty, it hadn't been done to that serious degree before...
Flagg had merely been banished from other worlds previously.
It shocked the hell out of me his demise though, and so early in the book as well.
I think that ultimately, Walter would have been a more daunting foe for Roland to overcome on his way to the Tower. Or I would have prefered there be a little more suspense to Mordred's and Roland's final confrontation.
HBJ
I know.. d*a*m*n, he's good at that.
That was Rewot Krad (great Minion Lord of KR2 and sybil)- I thought that was both brilliant and funny.
Lin
That would have really been a mind blowing ending!!!
(I wish I never read the epilogue) - it made the whole series pointless.
---- The "end" left me letdown and empty and I've thought about it for 2 weeks now.....
It took the magic out of the whole series IMHO.
Dam, I hate to say that.
the end left me feeling cheated out of a real ending.
But I loved everything else.
A bit later, I'll probably post a vent in one of the DT ending threads ...
HBJ
Oh Steve, no way!! I didn't know you felt that strongly about the ending - I don't know if we've discussed the ending in detail yet, just arbitrary events thus far. Now we must. Yes, we must.
Lin