Round Table #175

📢 Episode Summary:

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter Palaver on a few things, first they discuss the ending (yes again) through the lens of people who were disappointed in it and how their desires don’t align with King in general and this story in particular. Then similar to the discussion last month on Jake being the most important character to get right the boys go through all 8 book and discuss which supporting characters will be the most important for each season (assuming each book would be a season, which is not Flanagan’s plan but for this discussion they pretend). Then Peter talks a bit about his final few King books to achieve his 100% badge. Then King has been posting some stuff on Other Worlds Than These including the fact it is the FINAL Dark Tower book. He also tells us about a new Bumbler named Richard. Then they have announced that Patton Oswalt is the narrator for OWTT. Next is Flanagan’s The Mist the perfect setup for his Tower? Then an article on the wrtiers Top 10 King Short Stories which Tadd and Peter will do their own version of this on the next Round Table. Then some Odds and Ends and Uncle Stevie Recommends.

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Round Table #175 Show Notes

First King posting about Other Worlds Than These

Then Patton Oswalt is narrating Other Worlds Than These. Check the article HERE.

Next is The Mist the perfect setup for Flanagan’s Dark Tower? Check it HERE.

Next 10 Best King Short Stories (not novellas). Check the article HERE.

Then we will be doing our own version of that list on the next round table. Send your list in if you want to be a part of that!

Then Uncle Stevie Recommends

Wizard and Glass Book Club #38 (Pt4, Ch1 Sc4-5 & Ch2 Sc1-4)

📖 Section Covered: Part 4 Chapter 1 Subchapters 4-5, Chapter 2 Subchapters 1-4

📢 Episode Summary:

In the latest Book Club for Wizard and Glass Tadd and Peter the Ka-Tet is tormented by the thinny’s warble and when it finally subsides a few followup questions are asked about some of the dangling threads and Roland answers them, including Clay Reynolds, Cordelia Delgado, and Sheemie. The also see a note on a camper talking about an old woman in Nebraska and a Dark Man in Vegas. The also reach a clearing on I-70 and find red shoes for each of them, including Oy. The building they are approaching is now clearly seen as an Emerald Palace. Eddie ties Roland flying into the Ball to the Wizard of Oz as he saw things flying in the storm. They then fill Roland in on the story of Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz as it is clearly relevant to what they are seeing. They then reach the gates of the palace and it is a very trippy scene, maybe the trippiest we have seen in this entire sereis up to this point.

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Round Table #174

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In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter break down and discuss the final few Rounds of March Insanity where there were some upsets and surprises and even an overall winner neither of them could have predicted. Then in the news there is an article that talks about Jake Chambers being the most important character to get right in an adaptation which the boys discuss at length and through this examine aspects of the end of the series, the nature of gunslingers, Susannah’s choice at the end, and Peter finding a pretty critical thing in a re-read of Black House that has potentially huge implications in The Dark Tower Series. Then they cover Heather Graham sharing some information on Flanagan’s Carrie, then Sam Witwer talked a bit about Flanagan’s The Mist, also the Holly series might be coming sooner rather than later (whatever that means exactly), and King saying he thinks he will be forgotten 50 years after his death.

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Round Table #174 Show Notes

First up, the article on adapting Jake properly. Check it HERE.

Next up the article with Heather Graham talking Carrie. Check it HERE.

Next Sam Witwer talking The Mist being re-adapted by Mike Flanagan. Check it HERE.

Next up the article that implies the Holly show will be coming sooner than later. Check it HERE.

King thinks he won’t be remember 50 years after his death. Check it HERE.

Then there is the Arrow release of Salem’s Lot in 4k, buy it HERE.

Wizard and Glass Book Club #37 (Pt3, Ch10 Sc-23-27 & Pt4 Ch1 Sc1-3)

📖 Section Covered: Part 4, Chapter 10 Subchapters 23-27 & Part 4 Chapter 1 Subchapters 1-3

📢 Episode Summary:

In the latest Book Club for Wizard and Glass Tadd and Peter reach the moment the entire book was counting down to. Susan is taken into town on Rhea’s cart and as she sees a farmer she finally understands what she is headed for, and she prays to her father for strength for what is to come. Roland had realized in our last episode that the ball lied to him, and now he demands it from Alain, he takes it out and it shows him Susan in the cart, all while drinking his agony. He watches as the people began to pelt her with cornhusks and rotten vegitables, while they spit at her and while they chant Charyou Tree. Cuthbert and Alain are helpless to break Roland from it as he screams in agony. Then Cordelia and Rhea lead the charge of the town as they put Susan on the bonfire stack and ask she cries out her love for Roland Cordelia (and then Rhea) throw the first torches on the piles. In the end Susan thinks of Roland, remembers the good times, they were well met. Roland is screaming like a gutted animal, the ball only releases him when Cuthbert readies to shoot it, Roland passes out, the boys must leave Hambry for good with Roland in tow. Then we rejoin our ‘modern’ Ka-Tet as the story is told, they marvel it has only been one night, we hear Roland looked into the ball 3 more times. Jake hugs Roland and apologizes that he lost his friend. There are more questions but Roland says they have to move on towards that building that is trouble and in their road.

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Round Table #173 Show Notes

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First up the article about Flanagan potentially doing the flashback material nonlinearly. Check it HERE.

Next up Flanagan renews his deal with Amazon. Check it HERE.

Next Matthew Lillard spills the tea on what we might expect from Flanagan’s Carrie. Check it HERE.

Next up Flanagan responds to some of the criticism about him adapting The Mist. Check it HERE.

Then the speculation on how he might approach The Mist. Check it HERE.

Next Flanagan’s Website shows The Mist for 2028. Check it HERE.

Adding screengrab in case it changes or disappears.

Next the article of the person saying no more Flanagan King adaptations. Check it HERE.

Next the article giving Flanagan some ideas for King adaptations that have never been done. Check it HERE.

Next Andy Muschietti says Welcome to Derry will return. Check it HERE.

Then King is a Hot Fuzz fan 🤣

Round Table 173

📢 Episode Summary:

In the latest Round Table Tadd and Peter revisit the first round of March Insanity Brackets, including a few upset. Then look at what Round 2 has to offer in the final few days before the round ends. Then they cover an article saying Flanagan might do Wizard & Glass nonlinerly like he has done so often in his great works. Also Flanagan renews his deal with Amazon for more years. Then Matthew Lillard gives us our biggest look at what Flanagan’s Carrie might look like. Also Flanagan re-assures us that he is not stepping on Darabont’s masterpiece The Mist with his new adaptation as well as some articles theorizing what he might do, and some articles saying he should stop doing King all together and an article saying he should do some unadapted King instead of The Mist. Also Andy Muschietti says they are working on Welcome to Derry S2 and some Odds and Ends.

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Wizard and Glass Book Club #36 (Pt3, Ch10 Sc15-22)

📖 Section Covered: Part 3, Chapter 10 Subchapters 15-22

📢 Episode Summary:

In the latest Book Club for Wizard and Glass Tadd and Peter continue into the final chapter of Part 3 and in this episode the boys take out the tankers and ambush Latigo and his men in the desert but rather than taking some shots at Latigo himself they bait him and his men towards Eyebolt Canyon. Latigo has to wake up some of his men mesmerized by the columns of fire from the tankers that are now going off in a chain reaction; he and Hendricks muster the men to give chase to the boys. Latigo and company muster 80 people and ride hard after the boys heading into the canyon. The boys let their horses go and set fire to the gunpowder then go into the canyon. The Thinny almost takes Cuthbert and Alain but Roland wakes them up and they climb the notch in the canyon wall. Latigo and his men charge into the canyon unaware of the fire starting that will box them in and they drive right into the thinny and are torn apart by the thinny. Roland watches this from above and has a horrible realization, the thinny may have showed him the distant world’s to hide a much closer danger, and he hears the words of Rhea and knows Susan is in grave danger.

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March Insanity 2026

Dark Tower March Insanity 2026

Most Tragic DT Character

Jake Chambers 54%

Sheemie Ruiz 46%

Allie 62%

Benny Slightman Jr 38%

Eldred Jonas 59%

Mordred Deschain 41%

Oy 33%

Roland Deschain 67%

Jake Chambers 68%

Allie 32%

Eldred Jonas 22%

Roland Deschain 78%

Jake Chambers 32%

Roland Deschain 68%

FINALS

Roland Deschain

Susan Delgado

Most Tragic DT Character

Susan Delgado

Susan Delgado 95%

Gabrielle Deschain 5%

Susan Delgado 90%

Father Callahan 10%

Gabrielle Deschain 69%

Eddie Dean 31%

Susan Delgado 94%

Susannah Dean 6%

Father Callahan 67%

David the Hawk 33%

Gabrielle Deschain 69%

Vaughn Eisenhart 31%

Eddie Dean 59%

Olive Thorin 41%

Stephen King Bracket 2026

Most Beloved Character

John Coffey 65%

Andy Dufresne 35%

Danny Torrance 85%

Bill Hodges 15%

Tom Cullen 31%

Gordie Lachance 69%

Richie Tozier 91%

Holly Gibney 9%

John Coffey 64%

Danny Torrance 36%

Gordie Lachance 22%

Richie Tozier 78%

John Coffey 16%

Richie Tozier 84%

FINALS

Richie Tozier

Sadie Dunhill

Most Beloved Character

Sadie Dunhill

Beverly Marsh 42%

Sadie Dunhill 58%

Beverly Marsh 80%

Nick Andros 20%

Ben Hanscom 31%

Sadie Dunhill 69%

Beverly Marsh 93%

Charlee McGee 7%

Nick Andros 65%

Dick Hallorann 35%

Ben Hanscom 60%

Glenn Bateman 40%

Sadie Dunhill 83%

Jack Sawyer 17%