Biggest Stephen King Letdown

**mengstrom** · April 13th, 2009

You can't please all the fans all of the time, but here's my #1 moment that I felt Stephen King really let all of us down:

The resolution of the Randall Flagg character in The Dark Tower.

Man what a total letdown.

**Dylan Roberts** · April 13th, 2009

Well...If we can include Mr. Bachman in this...

Methinks Mr. Steinbeck probably rolled in his grave a time or two @ the absolute ripoff of his beloved "Mice and Men".

But hey, I'm just a musican, I write songs...which sometimes can be stories, and occasionally can be pretty descriptive and in depth. They have to be brief as well and not cause the tongue to choke up or the rhyme/metre to go out of whack. King can write sentences as long as he likes them to be, with fragments galore, with as much or as little as he wants to put into them. And at the end of the day,he's going to make a ton more money and be far more noted in history than I.

Dylan

**JRLauer** · April 13th, 2009

Yeah it was anti-climactic, but it was satisfying

**Cody44** · April 13th, 2009

Stephen King's decision to in the book Duma Key.

**Black Suit** · April 13th, 2009

Stephen King? Let down? ..

Black Suit cannot register.

**arachnapheobia** · April 14th, 2009

Well I guess to each his own. But in my opinion,
It was like something I was talking over with a friend of mine a while back, on how some people centre events arounds hero worship, 1 good guy who is the best and so on, and others who spread the focus over a vast expanse of characters, (actually like the lord of the rings, book not movie)
but like I said, I guess to each his own.

**Matthew.Degnan** · April 14th, 2009

I thought the biggest let own was all the hype for Goes to the movies and then it was rubbish when it came out.

**mengstrom** · April 14th, 2009

Originally Posted by arachnapheobia

Well I guess to each his own. But in my opinion,
It was like something I was talking over with a friend of mine a while back, on how some people centre events arounds hero worship, 1 good guy who is the best and so on, and others who spread the focus over a vast expanse of characters, (actually like the lord of the rings, book not movie)
but like I said, I guess to each his own.

Don't you think SK made Flagg the center, though? Roland's Yin to Flagg's Yang? He was important enough to get a painting in DT7! I mean, this was SK's life's work (literally), and Flagg's end just happens. He didn't need to make it cliche, but it should've had more weight to satisfy the readers who stuck with the story for decades. To me, it's his "George Lucas Moment."

Don't you think it would've been cool and obvious (but still so damn cool) to link Mordred to It as well? That would've been sweet, and would've explained why It focused on children.

Love SK, but everyone screws up at least once.

**Cerralin** · April 14th, 2009

I wouldn't say it was a big let down but I wasn't too happy with the ending to the DT books. I understand why the end was the end but I certainly wasn't prepared for it!!

**Roseasharn** · April 14th, 2009

I don't like to complain and it's not so much of a necessity thing, but I really liked Cuthbert and Alain. I could have definitely used more time with them.