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I thought her love with Eddie seemed forced. I thought that the romance between Roland and Susan was more realistic. And I guess I didn't like Susannah to some extent because she just kept coming up with new ways to be a burden.
Susannah is one of my favorite characters in the saga because of her amazing strength, and MPD in a woman turns me on. The amount of shit in her life that she went through before even meeting Roland and Eddie and how she came to terms with Detta and even looked at her as an allie..impressive... :harrier:
When I read the books again I may come up with a different opinion, but that's how I came to feel.
I don't think she tried to be a burden. She overcame her trials with intelligence and creativity, but that may just be my first impression of her.
Oh wow, most of the people claim the opposite. That her love with Eddie was true love and the one between those two teenegers was just forced. For my part I don't think either of them was forced.
Why do you think that anyway?
Yes, Susannah and Eddie needed each other but it doesn't mean it was forced. Eddie fell in love with a kind gunslinger woman and Susannah strated to love Eddie because he saved her and maybe he was the first man in her life who really knew her and still could love her.
So, dear Liz, why do you feel it was forced?
Better reply quickly Liz or Letti will sic her dog on you.
I think Susannah uses detta's strength when she has to as a defensive mechanism. Her mind has learnt these patterns from her Schism Days (you know, pathways are all there and whatnot).Odetta was the original person remember. Odetta became Susannah using this Detta character as a catalyst or constituent. Detta can come back if she's needed, but Odetta is gone.
I feel she might have had much more personalities than two but Detta and Odetta were the strongest.
This IS Susannah to me, I've finally found the perfect actress for her...not saying I want a movie made...but this is her to me -
http://www.stayreel.com/wp-content/u...athan-nt01.jpg
Who is that? I'd say thats her! :thumbsup:
Sanaa Lathan....drop-dead gorgeous.
Alright, I remember her from Blade. I agree.
I've been wondering about an actress that would be able to play Susannah...funny considering I'm not keen at all about the Dark Tower series being made into movies.
MAybe you were just looking for someone with the same atmoshere about them?
To me, Susannah was my least favourite member of the ka-tet, but i still lvoed her. She was so complex and so loving towards Eddie.
Ladyhitchhiker i think it was said that her love for Eddie was forced, but, i believe, Odetta had fallen for Eddie, nothing as strong as love y'know but still had fallen for him, and because of Eddie's trust of her, and how Odetta got on more with him than Roland, i believe the love grew.
Also, i think, the reason Odetta isn't mentioned much after book two, is because Suze had more Odetta in her most of the time. I think Detta was like her anti-conscience, if you know what i mean, the voice in your head that tells you what to do, except, instead of thinking the correct way, they think the gunslinger way. Also, A mon avis (in my opinion- if you don't speak french) Detta was replaced with Roland when she went through the door. Roland's voice spoke up in her head telling her to throw the gun away, i think Detta was tied to Mid-world too much, were as Roland was tied too much to her life, so his voice popped up, instead of Detta saying "Throw that thin' away, girl"
It's always made me wonder why Susannah is so many folk's least favorite member of the ka-tet. She's my favorite BECAUSE of her complexity and how much she has gone through causing her MPD. Also, the whole Mia possessing her sub-plot and all its twists and turns and implications, is deeply FACINATING to me.
I was surprised to see on other threads that so many people dislike Susannah. I understand not liking her I think (bear with me), but actively disliking her seemed strange. She couldn't control much of what happened to her. I was actually glad that she left Roland. Why wouldn't she? Everyone knew he had to go by himself (and now we know why on that too).
And I don't think Odetta became Susannah, I remember... in either WotC or SoS... Susannah thinking that Odetta must have let Mia in. So I think Mia took Odetta's place and she was gone forever..
Also.. Sanaa Lathan would be a pretty good Susannah, but Kimberly Elise still has my vote as the best one. She might not be as pretty but I think she's a better actress.
Me neither. Odetta, as kind as she was, seems like a totally useless gunslinger. I understand that there are aspects to her personality that are beneficial (such as her kindness) but that's not the kind of woman I'd want at my side in a gunfight.
I love all the ka-tet but Susannah isn't my favorite.
Truth be told? I think I like Detta just as much as I like Susannah.
I can't help I always liked Detta.
Do you think that Susannah changed over the course of the books? I mean, I know she didn't even exist until the end of The Drawing of the Three. At the beginning of The Waste Lands we see her as a combination of Detta's and Odetta's traits, but always something more (she says she's glad to be rid of the "foul-mouthed, cock-teasing thief" AND the "self-righteous, pompous prig"). Do you think her character changed after The Drawing of the Three, because of all her experiences (I'm thinking of her anger about Roland's tricks, Mia's intrusion, Eddie's death, etc. etc.)???