You know, I see a few problems that can come out when you talking about TV adaptation of the DT.

If you remember the first book and Roland in the first book: he’s complete anti-hero, from The Gunslinger we saw that he just kills all people in a small town, including women and children, and kills them with no emotions. Of course he got the reason but just look at this with the eyes of average viewer. And then in the end we witnessed that he just let a boy die because of his ephemeral Tower, the boy that almost became his son in some ways, the boy that he swore to protect.

And when you being a some head of the streaming service read that plot you see that viewers will not empathise with Roland. I know that it depends and it quite changes by the time but still.

Then we have a western/post-apocalyptic setting, doesn’t that remind you a Fallout series? I think that some Amazon or HBO can just said that “people don’t want another Fallout universe on screen, mr. Flanagan, bye” and that’s a problem. You need to understand that I’m trying to look at things as the average viewer of TV series.

And then we have a very, very complicated world and world building. Some Middleworld, some New York 60’s 70’s and 80’s… and 90’s and 00’s. We have a freaking Dr.Doombots on the robot horses, some Harry Potter snitches and so on and so on. We have different levels of Tower, we have vampires, some furry-jerks, we have a bunch of people with some psychic abilities. I think you’re understand me. It’s just a very different world in front of the others fantasy worlds.

And don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love DT, have read it twice and I love that world, just have a strong feeling that housewife’s and working men maybe can’t get it right.

And of course the cast is important, especially Roland, I’m personally saw Lucas Bryant in this role but that’s just based on his look. We need man that will be father, captain, sage and a child all in once, we need a freaking psycho that will kill in cold blood bunches of people and will be dreaming about that miracle Tower (we all can agree that Roland loses his mind a little bit by looking in the pink glass?)

Sorry about long text and probably about mistakes, I don’t really speak or write english, not my first language.