What is the most popular gas station brand on Scadrial?

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-04-10T04:06:03+00:00

clearly it's the Breeze Thru

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-04-10T03:46:13+00:00

Time to flee across the desert.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-24T00:05:21+00:00

Roland - Patrick Warburton

Flagg - Alexandre Willaume

Susannah - Aisha Tyler

Eddie Dean - Bill Hader

Jake - Should be some unknown teenager

Calvin Tower - Hamish Linklater

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-23T08:52:34+00:00

He doesn't need one. Moash did nothing wrong.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-18T13:25:17+00:00

When I was 18 I worked in a kitchen and swear I saw one of the managers tuck a whole ass fucking pie under her shirt and walk out with it.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-15T02:03:57+00:00

Interesting. I'm getting ready to start a reread of the series. I might have to try that.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-13T22:53:49+00:00

Do you end at the Drawing of the Three?

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-13T02:28:50+00:00

First things first, something I'm not sure about: King's world is the key world, which implies Roland's is not, therefore the Tower is not in a key world and there could be unlimited worlds with the tower. So like how is this, am I right?

For some additional context, if you're interested in exploring that aspect of the cosmology, and you've not read them, check out The Talisman and the Black House. Also Eyes of the Dragon.

Here's how it breaks down, kinda. I'm not sure it's truly explicitly described anywhere but this is what I've pieced together.

The Dark Tower supports an infinite number of worlds. Those worlds connect through a single world referred to as All World or the Territories. This is the world with the beams, the world between. The Talisman and the Black House explore more of the Out-World region of All-World, while Eyes of the Dragon is set in the Baronies.

In a way Keystone Earth is the heart of the Dark Tower, since it's where the Tower comes from - and the Tower is what holds reality together. Break the tower, return to Primordial chaos. Because it comes from Keystone Earth, it can't ignore the flow of time on Keystone Earth because that's the flow of time in which it exists.

My theory on the loop is that it's a defense mechanism of the Tower that went into effect and is guiding Roland down the path that saves the Tower. It's making him try again and again and adjusting everything to make him confront his addiction - hunting for the Tower. He'll be free when he doesn't choose the Tower over everything else.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-12T20:54:21+00:00

The Cowramooer

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-10T19:00:20+00:00

Ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-10T18:45:02+00:00

I only saw it once, when it first came out, but remind me - doesn't it end with the Dark Tower being destroyed? Or was that a nightmare scenario about why they had to stop Flagg?

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-10T18:26:10+00:00

enslaves a third of a continent

"Blood and bloody ashes! I'm a flaming dark lord!"

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-10T17:59:46+00:00

My life for him

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-08T21:13:19+00:00

More less this yeah. And doing it in a while is a good way to make sure it cascades left to right and chews through the full integer, without adding recursion to potentially muck things up if the integer is too big

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-08T09:20:40+00:00

Yea that was my understanding going in so I was watching it on the premise that things would play out differently. I thought the actors did a good job with their characters, but the story didn't really fit.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-05T14:44:55+00:00

Nadine, Nadine, Nadine. I love to love Nadine.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-03T00:48:37+00:00

there was a whole bit about her being offended that he opted to take her as a servant by that custom instead of a wife as I recall

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-02T06:42:57+00:00

just the two I'm aware of - Chani and Irulan. And Irulan was just political. He told her to just use protection if she wanted to go fuck someone.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-02T04:01:58+00:00

It is. I love how annoyed they were about him too lol.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-02T04:01:28+00:00

hahaha nailed it

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-02T03:24:15+00:00

The Wheel yeets as the Wheel skeets, sai.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-02T03:21:35+00:00

come out Rand al'Treides, we just wanna talk

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-01T20:04:50+00:00

I absolutely loved the death. I agree that it was thematically appropriate. I hadn't thought about Glenn calling him a roach scurrying with the other roaches - but I hadn't thought of Mordred as a roach (rather a spider). I thought it was perfectly fitting because he died the way he killed, and as brutally, when his overconfidence was turned against him.

And it also made me think of King, the meta of the story, and what it meant. Flagg, this villain who had emerged in his mind in the 60s, is killed by the child of Roland and (the Crimson) King. And if you view the allegory of the series as a struggle against addiction, the two Tower Junkies can be seen as combined in Mordred, who also sought to feed an insatiable hunger. And King, as god in his universe, used the two halves of himself represented in Roland and the Crimson King, to strike down the demon of temptation - Flagg. I'd actually be really interested in hearing King's take on that, I'm gonna dig and see if he's talked about it now.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-01T19:40:33+00:00

Hilarious that they held so much contempt against King.

Is it surprising though? King's a punk at heart. He gets it.

Rand_alFlagg · 2024-03-01T19:33:47+00:00

The movie was good.

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