Read: The Dark Tower–“Dan-Tete”
I’m starting to feel like King saved up all the weirdness and horror stuff for the final 1.25 volumes. After all that it’s starting to feel like an odd gear-shift, but I’ll take it. Watching a newborn baby with a boner mutate into a giant cannibalistic spider with a baby face growing out of its back like a tumor and then eat its own mother? I’ll take it indeed!
Susannah, of all people, gets the first big bloodbath against the Crimson King’s monstrous minions, massacring the motley maternity-ward crew. (Alliteration!) I was glad to see Flagg-manqué Sayer go down. I feel like King should have come up with a better reason for Susannah not to have killed Mordred the spider-baby than “she missed a few times,” but still, a pretty good showing. Even the uncredited cameo by C-3PO, aka Nigel the Robot, was a hoot.
Hey, here’s something that just occurred to me: After the age of magic ended, North Central Positronics built mechanical means of preserving magical phenomena such as the Beams, right? Like, at Shardik’s den, they built the big metal generator thingy, not to mention Shardik himself. But if North Central Positronics is a front for the Crimson King, and the Crimson King’s goal is to break all the Beams, why would they have preserved them in the first place?
Sean: “Watching a newborn baby with a boner mutate into a giant cannibalistic spider with a baby face growing out of its back like a tumor and then eat its own mother? I’ll take it indeed!”
I KNEW you’d DIG that. Really, what’s not to like? It’s just deliciously wrong.
I’ve always loved Nigel, and hadn’t realized the resemblance to C3PO until now! what a trip!
The Blogslinger: Blogging The Dark Tower, October-November 2007–Index
Here you shall find links to all of the posts in my blogathon reading of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. This post will be updated with each new entry. Day 1: Introduction Day 2: The Gunslinger Day 3: The Drawing…