Palaver: A New Order of Events

Well, Jake's return in Waste Lands was an edge-of-your-seat, entirely nail-biting scene for me, but I have a feeling all that will be cut because, as many of us are thinking, Roland might not let Jake fall (meaning he would be with Roland for the Eddie and Susannah's drawings). There are things that seem out of order since seeing the trailer, but it's hard to make sense of everything we were seeing, too. I was a little irked by the line Jake said about Roland being "the one to save the world" or something along those lines, but again, we'll have to see what they've done before passing judgment. Well, I will, at least.

If Jake is with Roland without leaving for a while, I can't imagine it would be that damaging to the story, though it would be sad to miss the killer house coming to life to try and keep Jake from getting through the door. However, I can't think of a way it would mess things up. I mean, things will be different (for instance, will they still be following the beam from Shardik's portal?), but things can still happen reasonably. I'm not sure how Jake would be able to handle Detta... I mean, the scene where Detta had Eddie in Roland's trap was another amazingly tense scene for me. All that would have to be reworked if Jake were there. Ugh, way too many different ways this can go, lol!

My head hurts now. Thanks a lot, Storm! I'll have to wait and see what other people have to say before my head explodes.

A sequel? Pretty dumb thing to say or think. Read the afterword to the last book. Do you know what a cop out is? That's why the series ended like that.

Ok, here's an idea...

What if they don't really plan to deviate from the book stories all that much aside from the origin/introduction? And that origin/introduction is done by Flagg going after Black Thirteen in the WTC thus necessitating Roland to follow him to the Keystone World and allowing him and Jake to meet for (technically) the first time. Then, after they save the world(or at least, ensure that Flagg doesn't get ahold of Black Thirteen), Flagg retreats back to Mid-World. Roland then admonishes Jake to stay in the 'real' world but Jake learns of the Dutch Hill doorway and follows Roland anyway. Then they segue into the story proper as generally presented in the books in the tv series that is supposed to follow.

Basically, I'm saying that, instead of Mort killing Jake and that's why he ends up at the way station in "The Gunslinger", he's following Roland instead after their adventures in NYC but still ends up at the way station for Roland to run into.

If it happens this way, between them already being familiar with each other due to the events of the movie and Roland now not wanting to be the kind of person who'd sacrifice a loved one for his quest(due to his experiences in the previous iterations), there is a good chance he won't let Jake fall when they are under the mountains and this would mean Jake is around for the events of "The Drawing of the Three"(which can help in all kinds of ways like Roland not losing his fingers to the lobstrocities). Of course, this means they'll have to drop the split timeline/Jake's secondary drawing side quest from "The Wastelands" but doing so wouldn't really alter the events to come all that much.

A side effect of going this route is that the entire ka-tet will have much more time to become attached to each other(particularly Roland and Jake; whereas, in the previous iteration, they hadn't really gotten the chance to get properly close until after Jake's second drawing). Also, this would mean that Jake has a lot more time to be trained as a gunslinger which could lead to him being more influential(read 'less likely to die') in the final battles. AND, like I said, maybe this time around, Roland sacrifices himself so that Jake and/or the others in the ka-tet can reach the Tower in his stead with Roland showing his true love for Jake by handing down his guns to him before Roland finally dies.

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see