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I got a kick out of that too. Great minds and all...

Your memory is correct. He, in my estimation, could not have prevented it. Still wish he'd ridden back into town to gun down Cordelia, but he was a bit too catatonic at the time.

T, I think you and I are the Roland of Gilead Defense Fund.

Didn't she technically burn in the name of The Affiliation. It wasn't until he was in the Grapefruit that Roland's quest became the Tower. Before that he was just acting in the defense of Gilead and...

Seems as good a theory as any.

Look T, we agree again.



And now, not. Well, that's a bit of a joke. I don't personally see any reason to believe the loops are the same at all other than they begin with chasing Walter and end...

I doubt from my answers in some of the other threads that this will surprise anyone, but yes, if I were Roland, Jake would fall.

well given that walter in the revised version seems to know that roland is looping, it seems likely to me he is the constant starting point.

to me the loop goes...

phase 1 - chase walter...

we also don't know what elements, if any, are the same each time he loops. maybe it's not a series of do-overs where roland gets to do the opposite of what he did the last time. it's just as likely...

precisely.

Maybe if he'd done something different in whatever prior cycle or loop he'd have never gone to/through Tull at all.[/QUOTE]

Certainly a possibility. I have no reason to believe the loops are...

I see it as a grim but necessary choice. I'm not saying it doesn't and shouldn't haunt him, but I personally don't see what non-murderous options he had in that scenario.:shoot:

It is choice.[/QUOTE]

Yes, very clever. My point was and remains that if we are compiling a list of things Roland could have chosen otherwise and still pursued the Tower, the depopulation of Tull...

He had no choice whatsoever in Tull. Kill or be killed.

Though I still disagree about Roland's motivation at that point, I agree completely with the rest of what you said.

Certainly possible. I do agree that there is certainly something trying to make sure Roland reaches the Tower, and that something puts things/people in his path that help him achieve this goal. So,...

It's a good question Matt, though I'm not sure my answer. For starters, I don't know how much I believe that there are other gods of the White. I believe there is a Gan [at least in as much as it...

I disagree. To me it's pretty clear in The Gunslinger that Roland didn't just sacrifice Jake because he didn't pause to refelct on his options. On the contrary, he agonized over the decision, but...