Homicidal_Squirrel
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Eh... The Stand started off alright. It went down hill after a few episodes, though. The Secret Window was also pretty good.The Stand, however, was terrible, and for many reasons.
* notably, all also quite old.
Eh... The Stand started off alright. It went down hill after a few episodes, though. The Secret Window was also pretty good.The Stand, however, was terrible, and for many reasons.
* notably, all also quite old.
I thought The Stand was okay, not great but okay.
Roland is vaguely discribed has white. So this is a switcheroo.A question from a Dark Tower noob. I've never read the series, so I'm no means an expert, but is Roland's race ever described explicitly in the books? All the art of the Dark Tower series that I've seen (book covers, comic books, etc.) have portrayed Roland Deschaine as a white caucasian. But now we have Idris Elba in the role and he's clearly black. So is this a case of casting an actor over his ability rather than his appearance, that they change a fictional character's racial makeup? Or was Roland's race really ambiguous in the first place so they were free to cast any actor in the role?
Now please don't think I'm a some sort of pendant over a fictional character's race. I think Idris Elba is a wonderful actor and I really didn't give a s**t when he was cast as Heimdall (described as the whitest god of the Aesir) in Thor (I know some racist a-holes objected to his casting, but who cares about them?). So I wonder if they same thing happened again here. I guess it speaks volumes of Idris Elba's strengths as an actor that they cast him in such an important role despite the race issue.
Just curious.
Even though I watched the whole thing, he turned me off in that one with the very first episode because of a lack of imagination. Shortly after they are introduced, 2 heroes have essentially the same struggle- each gets in a fight with a gun-wielding person and the gun goes off in the struggle, killing the antagonist. It was lazy storytelling.
Roland is vaguely discribed has white. So this is a switcheroo.
the character of Susannah is black in the books. I wonder if she had conflicts with Roland centered around race. That could change dynamics.
Roland is vaguely discribed has white. So this is a switcheroo.
the character of Susannah is black in the books. I wonder if she had conflicts with Roland centered around race. That could change dynamics.
It gets worse has the series moves forward. It was written over a longer period of time than GoT. King's talents isn't has his finest nowadays.Regarding the series itself, how is The Dark Tower as a fantasy?
Interesting. Well, I guess if they were going to do away with the whole race thing, casting a great actor like Elba was a no brainer. I'm just glad it wasn't someone like Will Smith.
Regarding the series itself, how is The Dark Tower as a fantasy? I've never been a fan Stephen King's work so I've never give the books a try. But seeing that the series has been consistently popular and the fact there's a lot of hype over this movie, leaves me to wonder as to what the fuss is all about.
Roland is vaguely discribed has white. So this is a switcheroo.
the character of Susannah is black in the books. I wonder if she had conflicts with Roland centered around race. That could change dynamics.
Yup, he is cast as Roland, and that's pretty awesome.
That would be interesting. Are the books written in a sort of alternate history style?