Treachery Discussion Thread

[turtlex]

Really? I just think the Aileen cover, with the striking pink, and the fact that she's a woman on the cover, I just find that image much more eye-popping than those others.

I believe the last image you shown is the cover from Treachery # 1 - it was used.



That being said - I would have LOVED to see a brand new image - created solely for the hardcover.

[CyberGhostface]

I know that it's generally the same cover for Treachery #1--what I was referring to was that in the unused cover, Roland has glowing red eyes. For some reason, they removed that in the finished design.

[turtlex]

Oh, duh. Sorry. I misunderstood. I honestly don't like either of those.

[RolandLover]

I read this last night and I must say that it restored a bit of my faith in the series. It is the longest and most well done issue of the current arc. I actually liked it a lot. The only thing that came off a bit wrong for me was Roland's trite little speech about how Susan is the only woman he'll ever love and yada yada. It was poor dialogue and it didnt seem to really fit something that Roland would say out loud, even if he was thinking it. Aside from that, though, I thought it was a damn good issue.

Agreed! In DOTT3 when Roland was watching Eddie/Susannah he thought to himself that he wants to love again. He didn't say it out loud. So what RF had Roland say that about Susan, to me she was being a fangurl of Susan since she said in her interviews Susan is one of her favs.

[RolandLover]

I'm so happy that I received the HC of Treachery today along with the HC of The Fall of Gilead!! Love it!!

[RolandLover]

After reading the Treachery,

Spoiler

I do not feel sorry that Gabrielle is dead. Her betrayl made her a horrible wife and mother. No on wonder Roland had so much hate for her. I only feel bad for Roland because he shot her. I don't know if she would have killed Steven but I'm leading towards she would have. I don't know why Steven wanted her even after she came back from the nunnery. Martin Broadcloak is a nasty wizard who had sexual relations with her. Why did he want to touch her again after him?!

[Brainslinger]

SPOILER TREACHERY

He loves her. She wasn't always like that, and even now she isn't all like that. They have a history together, and he probably hoped she had changed and that they could salvage something. I actually think she hoped that for a while too, but she isn't very strong and Marten is wiley. And personally, I'm not entirely sure she would have gone through with it.

Also Steven isn't completely void of blame. I get the impression he has somewhat neglected her over the years. No doubt this is largely due to his Gunslinger duties and being the Dinh of Gilead, but it's there. That doesn't justify her actions, but lonely forsaken people can find themselves in a dark boring place. Then along comes an enigmatic wizard and theres suddenly passion and excitement back in her life.

[RolandLover]

SPOILER TREACHERY

Yes he loves her and Gabrielle knows that but it seems her love for him didn't match her love for Martin. Her love for him mattered more to her than for Steven and Roland. She knew how Roland felt about her when he left to go to Hambry. How could she go along with Martin's plan to kill his father? Did she think Roland would love her for that? No, he would have hated her even more. I just wished she would've put Roland first in this some how but it was all about what she can do for the wizard Martin.

[Brainslinger]

Spoiler:

I'm not so sure she would have gone through with it but I don't entirely disagree with you.

I was mainly attempting to answer your question as to why, I think, Steven was willing to take her back.

[RolandLover]

Spoiler:

Thanks for answering and nice discussion on this. I'm not convinced 100% that Gabrielle would have went through killing Steven.

[Randall Flagg]

I put a "Spoiler" icon on the thread itself, so going forth there is no need for posts to have spoiler tags in them.
Thanks.

[Ari_Racing]

Good point.
THanks J!

[Ari_Racing]

Good point.
THanks J!

[Spesshart]

A little detail I found by reading Treachery is that they seem to have used the north western part of Middle-Earth for one map which is shown in the 3rd issue. I cut out the image and flipped it to show what i mean.
See...

And now the Eriador region of Middle-Earth:



Lazy... lazy...