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* Who is actually in charge in Gilead? Is there a King somewhere? Roland's father seems more like one of the top (if not ''the top'' Gunslinger, but it's always seemed to me that there's some sort of monarchy system here.
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******* I seem to recall that idea popping up in a couple of King/Bachman's own books, but I don't remember which.
*** This is backed up by the fact that they ''did'' once find an electric wheelchair for Susannah, but left it behind because they had no way to keep it charged.
** They're not child-stealing robots as such, they're TWIN-stealing robots. Jake isn't a twin, so he's not part of their plans.
*** Something like HollywoodHacking?
** Blaine is also crazy and sadistic. Slowing down deliberately to scare people seems in-character, especially if it's followed by speeding back up so they [[ParanoiaFuel can't tell where he is or how close by the sound]].
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** Roland is clearly a man who values (what he considers) doing the right thing, but he's also extremely obsessive and lacking in compassion. And [[DoomMagnet people tend to die around him a lot]], not always the people he wants to die. He would have '''tried''' to be a good king, but I can't see any realistic chance of him succeeding at that.
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** Saving reality from the Crimson King once wasn't good enough for ''Roland''...
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** The idea that [[MagicAIsMagicA magic]] is highly dependent on following [[TheLawsOfMagic certain rules]] is very common in fantasy (though there isn't a specific rule about ownership listed on that page and I'm not sure what to call it). Simply sending a mook to trespass and physically attack the Rose would be "cheating" in a sense that acquiring access to it through trickery and wealth is not. An attempt to cheat the rules of magic with a living universe that has thorns and a CompellingVoice seems likely to fail or backfire.
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** Considering how common horses are in the setting it seems like SOMEONE should have noticed that sort of thing can happen ([[RealityIsUnrealistic although apparently people in this world today still don't all get it]]). Maybe that witch used another method that doesn't depend on a hymen? Such a method might require either magic or actual medical knowledge that a witch could be expected to have but most folks in Mejis wouldn't.
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**** (f) It was Flagg's Ka to be eaten by Mordred. He was destined to survive everything prior to that.
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** Considering that the only way to open The Tower doors was with Roland's guns (which CK didn't have) and with what The Tower ultimately ends up being, the Crimson King probably wanted to be on the balcony just to have a better vantage point to kill Roland. Assuming he's still somewhat sane enough to even have a plan in place.
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* In ''Wizard and Glass'', how could Susan, a girl who seems to spend half her life on horseback, still have her hymen intact enough to pass a medieval virginity test? And why are the Mejis folk relying on a witch who lives miles away to perform such a test when they could easily do it themselves?
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* One of the issues that is brought up as a fault of Giliad by John Farson seems to be that they are a class stratified society based on the descendents of Eld and the power of individual gunslingers. Is this ever shown to be wrong, because it seems like it would suck if you were anyone but a born gunslinger. The focus on remembering the face of ones father also makes me think that they are not the most progressive society toward bastards. In short, is Roland's home time and society really that bad or do we only see part of the picture.
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* One of the issues that is brought up as a fault of Giliad Gilead by John Farson seems to be that they are a class stratified society based on the descendents of Eld and the power of individual gunslingers. Is this ever shown to be wrong, because it seems like it would suck if you were anyone but a born gunslinger. The focus on remembering the face of ones father also makes me think that they are not the most progressive society toward bastards. In short, is Roland's home time and society really that bad or do we only see part of the picture.
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* As I read through the Wizard and the Glass I wonder about the lack of remorse the Roland shows when recounting his story. He never really seems to acknowledge that his time spend with Susan did significant damage to the efforts of him and his friends to find what was hidden and the avoid binge killed. Cuthbert and Alain call him out on it but he never really seems to be aware that had he spent less time with Susan the disaster that engulfed Mejis could have been at least lessened if not avoided. Making mistakes is understandable and clear but the fact is that Roland never seemed to be aware of his fault and no one seems to call him on it. Am I missing some thing, did I misinterpret or is it simply that no one sees it as an issue.
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* This has more to do with the Dark Tower comics than with the main sequence of seven books, but I'll post it here since there isn't a separate page for them. My question is, why does anyone in-universe think John Farson is some leader for democracy and liberation? The comics give literally no indication that he's ever actually implemented any of it in the areas he's taken (and it takes him years to complete the fall of Gilead and the Affiliation). Even worse, he's not shown as particularly "good" or charismatic - the guy walks around in an evil-looking red mask and black attire, for Ka's sake. Yet he's apparently popular enough in-universe to have earned the title of "the Good Man", and there seem to be a bunch of people who are totally direhard supporters of him throughout the Affiliation because of what he's supposedly trying to do.
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** The only explanation I can think of is a combination of "the grass is greener" and them not having the internet. People always tend to by swayed by a particularly charismatic man with new ideas (mind we've only ever seen him in "war mode"; maybe on other occasions to sway people he puts on a suit and tie and is all sweetness and honey). And as word travels more via messenger than wifi, perhaps words of his "goodness" have been exagerrated as word has spread.
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** The only explanation I can think of is a combination of "the grass is greener" and them not having the internet. People always tend to by swayed by a particularly charismatic man with new ideas (mind we've only ever seen him in "war mode"; maybe on other occasions to sway people he puts on a suit and tie and is all sweetness and honey). And as word travels more via messanger than wifi, perhaps words of his "goodness" have been exagerrated as word has spread.
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** The only explanation I can think of is a combination of "the grass is greener" and them not having the internet. People always tend to by swayed by a particularly charismatic man with new ideas (mind we've only ever seen him in "war mode"; maybe on other occasions to sway people he puts on a suit and tie and is all sweetness and honey). And as word travels more via messanger messenger than wifi, perhaps words of his "goodness" have been exagerrated as word has spread.
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* Where did Roland get his ammunition from before his trip to New York? In Tull, he spends almost fifty shells gunning down crazed townspeople, and in the beginning of the second book it's revealed that that was almost half of what he had left. If he had no way to replenish, those shells were worth more than everything else he owned put together, and he should have just run away instead of wasting them.
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** It's the world of 19. Susannah frequently asks what year it is in her dreams only to be met with the answer "19". It's a world shaped around what she needs, so they are the ages they need to be and it is unlikely that she'd have a [[TheTalisman twinner]] running about.
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** It's mentioned in one of the forewords that "just how closely Roland's memory resembles the way that world actually was is very much open to question..." I always assumed that Roland's own memory has suffered the same decay as time and geography; in addition, he's never been very good at introspection. His memories are flavored through his own romantic core; his interpretations are iron hard pragmatism.
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** The Concordance says that they were created by "the magical tension that existed between Roland and his nemesis Walter."
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** King has also stated on more than one occasion that "Hell is repetition" and it's shown in other stories besides The Dark Tower series. So, in essence, Roland's journey, beginning with the chase across the desert, is Hell.
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* The never really explain where the doors come from on the beach. I suppose we can assume it was The Tower (or King himself providing dues ex machina), but it also could have been Flagg? Another force entirely? As it stands, its really random, and for this series, that's saying something.
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** When he finds the path of the beam, it's implied he was always aware of it. But the quest to catch the Man in Black sidetracked following it, and later, the pull to draw the three takes him subconciously down the beach. He was taking a break after the adventures on the beach to heal and train his new apprentices. After the battle with Shardik essentially gives his apprentice their "trial" to become gunslingers, Roland is satisfied enough to actually persue the path of the beam.
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** Specifically said in the book Arthur had up to 40 children with various gillies. Hey may have had only one legitimate child (it's never said in this series if this is the case, tho I may be misremembering), but bastard children seem to have the same rights to lineage as legitimate ones in Roland's world (The Mayor's attempt to produce an heir with a gillie goes along with this as well).
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** King is the tower for all intents and purposes, and stories have power. Trying to differentiate between in-story and meta for this series is an excercise in futility.
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** They are unable to approach the rose with intent to destroy. It's shown to be ''extremely'' powerful, and could defend itself easily against uninvited intruders. They are attempting to exploit a loophole essentially in that, if they legally own the property, they own the rose and the rose has no power to stop them. It's never explicitly spelled out this way, but this was the essentially presented and how I understood it.
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** Also, Roland does mention that when he looked in the wizard's glass, the ball showed him all the things that he'd missed and all the places he'd screwed up. He may not show enough remorse for your taste, but he does know that he was at least partially at fault.
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** His main platform was equality by overthrowing the brutal class system of the tyrannical Gunslingers. He was preaching liberty and freedom as an ends justify the means deal. Just because it's clear that Farson himself was batshit crazy, doesn't mean he wasn't charismatic.
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** Did there need to be? It's a King novel. Stranger things have happened, and it's not like they just walked into it like they'd been doing it for years, either. It was strange for everyone.
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*** Plus, it's stated many, ''many'' times in the book that Jake is extremely gifted with "The Touch", a vaguely-defined ability that is only semi-described as basically being "magic psychic powers". With something as nondescript and poorly-defined as The Touch, swapping bodies(or, rather, connecting minds) with a lower life-form doesn't seem like that much of a stretch. Just be glad it wasn't used too egregiously by King as a case of NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, because Gan knows he could and would completely get away with it. With such a nebulous concept as The Touch at his disposal, he could have went [[BackFromTheDead an]] [[HealingHands entirely]] [[RealityWarper different]] [[DeusExMachina route]].
*** Plus, it's stated many, ''many'' times in the book that Jake is extremely gifted with "The Touch", a vaguely-defined ability that is only semi-described as basically being "magic psychic powers". With something as nondescript and poorly-defined as The Touch, swapping bodies(or, rather, connecting minds) with a lower life-form doesn't seem like that much of a stretch. Just be glad it wasn't used too egregiously by King as a case of NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, because Gan knows he could and would completely get away with it. With such a nebulous concept as The Touch at his disposal, he could have went [[BackFromTheDead an]] [[HealingHands entirely]] [[RealityWarper different]] [[DeusExMachina route]].
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*** Roland also seems to fear or distrust magic to some extent, particularly when offered to be used for his physical benefit. This can be seen when he refused the delicious-looking rabbit that fell from The Man in Black's robes in The Gunslinger, despite taking the extra effort to roast it over an open fire for his cornered quarry, favoring the last of the jerky he had been eating the whole trip. (Roland even outright states that he is afraid of enchanted meat.) It isn't too much of a stretch to assume that Roland, practical man that he is, fears and distrusts pretty much ''any'' kind of magic to some extent(even the magic of the White, which he serves), and only fiddles with it when he thinks he absolutely has to. Seeing as how he had gotten used to shooting [[ADateWithRosiePalms and doing other things]] one-handed by this point in the story, he probably didn't see having his hand back as a complete necessity, and so decided to just let it be rather than risking Patrick's [[RealityWarper abilities]] screwing up at a bad moment. He also seemed to feel mild contempt for Patrick, and only appeared to be letting the poor kid tag along because he was needed(that's the vibe I got, anyway). He might have been too proud to ask somebody he didn't like all that much to do him a favor.
*** Roland also seems to fear or distrust magic to some extent, particularly when offered to be used for his physical benefit. This can be seen when he refused the delicious-looking rabbit that fell from The Man in Black's robes in The Gunslinger, despite taking the extra effort to roast it over an open fire for his cornered quarry, favoring the last of the jerky he had been eating the whole trip. (Roland even outright states that he is afraid of enchanted meat.) It isn't too much of a stretch to assume that Roland, practical man that he is, fears and distrusts pretty much ''any'' kind of magic to some extent(even the magic of the White, which he serves), and only fiddles with it when he thinks he absolutely has to. Seeing as how he had gotten used to shooting [[ADateWithRosiePalms and doing other things]] one-handed by this point in the story, he probably didn't see having his hand back as a complete necessity, and so decided to just let it be rather than risking Patrick's [[RealityWarper abilities]] screwing up at a bad moment. He also seemed to feel mild contempt for Patrick, and only appeared to be letting the poor kid tag along because he was needed(that's the vibe I got, anyway). He might have been too proud to ask somebody he didn't like all that much to do him a favor.
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