DT Questionnaire *Spoilers*

[John Blaze]

10. Which Beam Guardian were you most drawn too?

The Rabbit.

[fernandito]

10. Which Beam Guardian were you most drawn too?

The Turtle by a mile and a half.

[Girlystevedave]

The Turtle.
I even started somewhat collecting them after reading the book.
Figurines, not real ones.

[John Blaze]

The Turtle.
I even started somewhat collecting them after reading the book.
Figurines, not real ones.

we collect them too!

[Lisey Landon]

11. Favourite crossover (from other King stories) character, place or event.

[alkanto]

11. Favourite crossover (from other King stories) character, place or event.

My all-time favorite Stephen King book is 'Salem's Lot, so that wins by default

[Walkingman79]

Favorite Guardian of the Beam-
The Turtle.Some IT spoilers

Spoiler:

The Turtle(Maturin) and I'll be an echo and use "by a mile and a half".I remember being very young on my first read of IT and remember clearly loving the Ritual of Chud where I came accross the Turtle for the first time.I also remember early on in the book Georgie goes to the basement to grab some Turtle wax and we are led to believe there is something pretty heavy about the turtle symbol(and we were right to believe that).I think i'm going to dig out IT today and read the Ritual of Chud section because I remember some pretty intense dialog between Stuttering Bill and the Turtle.I'm sure a few of you have gone back to some old King books to re-read for Dark Tower connections and if memory serves me correctly I think this exchange between Bill and the Turtle will elude to the world of the Dark Tower.I could be wrong but I swear when I read"See the turtle of enormous girth....."I had an overwhelming sense of deja vu like i had read that poem somewhere before.I'm rambling but one thing is for sure;I was always drawn to the Turtle even way back then and I feel like that's some pretty intense stuff.Ka is a wheel for sure.....

Favorite crossover-
I loved seeing Ted Brautigan again.It was like running into an old friend.You know the one you really get excited to see cause you know the conversation will be great and you have so much to catch up on.Not the one with the same old boring and predictable small talk"how ya been?-where ya workin?-married?-kids?....awkward couple of seconds....well good seeing you."No not Ted.I wanted to grab lunch or a couple of beers and really hear what's good 'ole Ted has been up to all these years.Yes running into Ted again was the bees knees.

[RainInSpain]

alcanto -

Salem's Lot was the first SK book that I read, so it was interesting to meet Father Callahan again in DT5.

[alkanto]

Mine too! Hence it automatically being my favorite. That tends to be the case with me - the first (or near enough) book of an author I read tends to be my favorite.

[pathoftheturtle]

10. Which Beam Guardian were you most drawn too?

Stephen King.

[Jean]

11. Favourite crossover (from other King stories) character, place or event.

My all-time favorite Stephen King book is 'Salem's Lot, so that wins by default

it does

[John Blaze]

Favorite crossover-
I loved seeing Ted Brautigan again.It was like running into an old friend.You know the one you really get excited to see cause you know the conversation will be great and you have so much to catch up on.Not the one with the same old boring and predictable small talk"how ya been?-where ya workin?-married?-kids?....awkward couple of seconds....well good seeing you."No not Ted.I wanted to grab lunch or a couple of beers and really hear what's good 'ole Ted has been up to all these years.Yes running into Ted again was the bees knees.

Everything you said.

I love Ted, he's one of the best characters in the series.

[Lisey Landon]

12. If you were dissatisfied with Flagg's demise, how would you have liked him to go out?

[Jean]

12. If you were dissatisfied with Flagg's demise, how would you have liked him to go out?

I was completely satisfied.

[alkanto]

12. If you were dissatisfied with Flagg's demise, how would you have liked him to go out?

I dunno if I was necessarily dissatisfied with his demise. I certainly didn't have anything planned for such an occasion. But it would have been nice to see him go out in more of a fight, perhaps.

[Jean]

he had never fought before, why should he have done it then?

[alkanto]

That's what I don't know...it just would have been more exciting, I guess? It was just anticlimactic for me. Like I said, I didn't really have a problem with it, but if I had to change it, that's what I would have done.

[fernandito]

12. If you were dissatisfied with Flagg's demise, how would you have liked him to go out?

He was a constant thorn in Roland's side - to say the least - he should have met his end at the hands of the gunslinger. I would have loved if he was the final obstacle , standing before Roland and the Tower. I agree with Alkanto's sentiment of his demise feeling anti-climatic.

[pathoftheturtle]

Well since, previously,

The Stand

God Himself dropped a nuclear bomb on him, and he survived that

what death could possibly have not been anti-climactic?

[John Blaze]

I honestly have never really had a solid opinion about that. Yes, it feels anticlimactic, but I also don't have any idea how else it could have gone.

[maerlyns_rainbow]

Best fight scene:

The gas station in book 7 or Eddie and Roland's fight at The Leaning Tower.

Favorite romance:

Eddie and Susannah

Background character that deserved a bigger storyline:
I really liked John Cullum, but maybe that's just because he's freshest in my mind at the moment (I'm re-reading the series and am on book 7 now)

Beam guardian I'm most drawn to:
Turtles. I dunno why. I just like turtles.

Favorite tie-in:
The Stand. Probably my favorite book. Ever.

[maerlyns_rainbow]

12. If you were dissatisfied with Flagg's demise, how would you have liked him to go out?

I was completely satisfied.

Me too. I was not sorry to see him go.

[maerlyns_rainbow]

Well since, previously,

The Stand

God Himself dropped a nuclear bomb on him, and he survived that

what death could possibly have not been anti-climactic?

Yes, exactly!

[Girlystevedave]

11. Favourite crossover (from other King stories) character, place or event.

Ted Brautigan.
I was so excited to see him show up in DT. His character was one I felt attached to after reading Hearts In Atlantis. So...to get more story with him was awesome.

12. If you were dissatisfied with Flagg's demise, how would you have liked him to go out?

I dunno if I was necessarily dissatisfied with his demise. I certainly didn't have anything planned for such an occasion. But it would have been nice to see him go out in more of a fight, perhaps.

Tru dat.
His death should have been a bigger "deal" than it was.

[candy]

7. Best fight scene.

eddies first gun fight (or naked eddies gun fight)
as has been discussed, the writing flowed really well and i got really caught up in the moment of the fight. It was also the first time you really knew Eddie was going to be a gunslinger, i just wanted to punch the air and yell 'hell yeah'

8. Favourite romance or romantic encounter.

Eddie and Susannah

9. Background character that deserved a bigger storyline:

Aunt Talitha and all at River crossing

10. Which Beam Guardian were you most drawn too?

The Bear

11. Favourite crossover (from other King stories) character, place or event.

The Stand and Flagg, i honestly got a goosebumps when he first appeared
which leads nicely to.....

12. If you were dissatisfied with Flagg's demise, how would you have liked him to go out?[/QUOTE]

The FIRST reading - god i was disappointed, he had been built up to be this big bad and he was just so pathetic at the end.
But.... on subsequent readings of both DT and the Stand, i realised he was actually a very puny character who was being used all along, (even in the Stand) so in fact his demise was quite fitting.