The Dark Tower Ending - I HATED IT! **SPOILERS**

[bopropadop]

Hi!

I'll just interject an opinion here. Great books are talked about for years and years and years. If the ending did nothing else, it did lead to discussions such as this one. This post has been up since July and has been viewed over 5,000 times. Good ending or bad (respecting your opinion either way) we should all be pleased that SK completed his magnum opus, we read it, and now we discuss. Doesn't get any better than this.

All IMHO.

(I liked it by the way...)

[aussiewonder]

The only thing I did not like about the ending was, That it was the end!
I wasn't ready for the journey to end, but then it didnt end really, in so much as ka
is a wheel and I can pick up my books and walk with Roland whenever I choose.......
and I will! LONG live OY!

[Ben E Gas]

Sorry to bring up this thread again, but I just have to say I loved the ending and loved the journey getting there even more. I'm glad I took a chance and read 'the gunslinger'. It made me a Stephen King fan. Best of all, it rekindled my love of reading. I received a bunch of King books for christmas and I cannot wait to read them. Unfortunately, I went out and bought guitar hero also, but I'll make sure I put that down to read each day.

Someone had commented in an early post in this thread that they didn't like the scene with Dandelo, I loved that scene. I also liked

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the way walter was killed, he deserved it, I thought. I also thought it fitting that the Crimson King's eyes were left on the balcony. He was not meant to reach the top. Who knows what Roland will find when some day he finally reaches the top and is not sent back to the desert. In my opinion, he is never meant to go to the top either. His destiny was to save the beam, which he did. If he just had stopped there, all would be well and he could reach the clearing at the end of the path, maybe even with his new friends. The Crimson King would still be stuck up there on the balcony never causing anyone any more harm and the world could move on.

[S Mcleod]

Oh boy.
Yes yes agine Yes.I agree with you 110%!That last DK had every possible Bad and Very wimpy conclusion all wrapped up in one!!Stephen really pulled That off.But all the "let downs"aside for me..I read for the villians.Always have always will..Except pervert villians
I can't hack a sicko.But in all other cases it's the villian that draws me.
The "ka-tet" gosh they were very boreing indeed.especially the smart mouth,drug addict.
Eddie.If king HAD to kill his most famous villian of all time "Randall Flagg" he should have had him and ol quick draw roland duke it out. After he wiped out a ka-tet member or two First of course.But nope .no can do.A quick retarded no thought or dignity whatsover death was Much better?By the way..what was first the Stand or the dark tower?
Because I noticed king went from "this man Flagg,who is not a man at all but a supernatural being."-There from mother abagail's lips to your ears.
So how does he go from That..to rembering being a runaway who was raped at 13..then
killed wham-bam by that fresh from the womb baby spider boy???
Stephen screwed that up as bad as you want.End of story no doubt at all.
And the Crimson King..couldn't this great "bad guy" have gotten a fight with roland?
His death was something you see in a kids cartoon!haha it's nuts erased away.
And how about a few last words? I guess EEEEEEEEEE!!! was good enough to rap up such a great(haha) villian as him?From all I have read in the Dark Tower books.....I came to a conclusion.
Flagg could have wiped every last character out of his way and "danced like fred astaire"
right up the steps and rulled it all!I only came to this theory from the written word of SK.
And from what I saw.First send out the eye.Find the ka-tet.Send a bunch of moronish gunmen to distract them.Split them up burn out there minds or how about the electric ball from the finger tips?The stroll on out turn into a crow fly to the CK's place.Kill him off (he didn't do much but set on that stupid throne anyway).etc,etc if not exact something to that effect.
Haha wow..went to far agine Sorry folks no offense (yes misspellings all over the place.)
I do apologise.But I stand by my feelings.
Your pal
-S Mcleod

[JohnDalglish]

.But I stand by my feelings.

Hi,

And you're totally entitled to stand by you feelings

Just as I'm totally entitled to completely disagree with you.

Long days and pleasant nights

[rjt65]

Achmeds book over there ... about 150 pages left ... in the 4th journey through......

still loving it!!! so much i am thinking when will i go for my 5th detour through mid world?

Cannot all be happy with all books but find what does ya than...and enjoy!

[abominae1]

The part of Dark Tower 7 that I disliked the most was that there was no confrontation between Flagg and Roland at some point in the story. I felt robbed at the time, because it seemed the story was building up to that ... but as a fan I also understand that the story doesn't always go the way I want it to. A few days after I read the story I got to thinking that maybe that battle was too predictable, we all know Roland would've owned Flagg anyway.

I actually enjoyed the battle between Roland and The Crimson King [the highlight of the book IMO] , and thought Steve's end to the Crimson King was, in a way , fitting.

[Goodlovin]

Wow one of these threads popping up again?

I agree that the ending was bad sort of soap opera ish where someone dies and it ends up being a dream.

That being said when I think about the DT series all I can think of is that it was a hell of a fun journey leading up to that bad ending.

[wally wonder]

I take it from your profile picture that you're still a fan. I've experienced a range of emotions after reading The Dark Tower, come away with something different each time. I think I'm weird, so I won't tell you what they are, exactly. Besides, someone may round up a posse and come looking for me. I am re-reading it again, probably for the 4th or 5th time.

There's a lot there, in that long journey, and this time through, I've been asking why is so and so is different from the other. Why is so and so's relationship different from so and so's relationship? First time through, I don't think I saw all of Roland's warts--he's the hero, after all, and can do no wrong. But I'm thinking, maybe not. There's a pile of cool things in there, todash, thinnys, doors.

Saw Blazing Saddles the other day on the tube and I had to laugh when those two black guys pumped their little rail car into the quick sand. The big boss man came with his sidekick and they managed to lasso the handle and pull the handcart out, 'whew! almost lost a $400 handcart!" Ka, like a wheel.

Gotta be something about those railroad tracks.

[vivazebool]

King's villians remind me of the Wizard of Oz:Everybody is terrified of him and makes a big deal of him until they discover he is not all he was cracked up to be.

In The Stand, Flagg

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made lots of foolish errors in judgment that lead to his defeat

. In the Tommyknockers, these great and intelligent aliens turned out to be

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a bunch of bickering pirates that killed each other foolishly. And the "becoming" residents of Haven couldn't even think of using an AC/DC converter to keep the power company from snooping.

. In Gingerbread Girl, the killer turns out to be

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afraid of water

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I read many posts on this MB about how dissapointed the readers are with King's villains. Maybe this is not a stigma on his writing style. Maybe there is an idea he is trying to get across to his readers. Maybe this shows us his insight into human nature and how we make the object of our fears bigger than they really are.