I started a reread earlier this year and stalled out somewhere in the middle of the third book, not because I was bored but because other things got in the way. They're still pretty great, other than the problematic racial stuff in the second book (which unfortunately follows Susannah around for the rest of the…

In a single calendar year I will likely be skipping a Dark Tower adaptation and a Justice League movie. It's unfathomable.

I love that book, but the racial stuff has really not aged well.

He also didn't push Jake in front of a subway, that was Detta/Odetta/Susannah. He pushed Jake into traffic.

I really dug his comeuppance, but I can totally see why it would bother people.

Yeah, but how can he do anything but give it a hearty endorsement at this point? Give it a few years (or months, or weeks) and ask him again.

I never saw the movie, but I believe the trailer included some super cheesy line from Anthony Hopkins about Atlantis that makes a half-assed attempt to justify the title. Even though the story it's based on is actually called Low Men in Yellow Coats, and Hearts in Atlantis is a completely different thing.

As I recall, when Roland meets King the book makes a point to say that Roland looks quite a bit like Clint Eastwood (which is mentioned throughout the books, I believe) and bears a passing resemblance to King.

This is the best comment.

I love the books, but the movie looks like a cheap afterthought and the reviews seem to confirm that. Good on you for staying positive, but I'm perfectly happy with the books. I don't need to bother with a lackluster adaptation.

Darabont even tossed in a big Dark Tower reference at the beginning of The Mist. I assumed he was a fan, otherwise why even include that? It's strange that he was never in the running to direct this.

Also, as much as I love this series, and as much as I don't care for the term problematic, Detta as a character is super, super problematic and would be best of completely reworked.

It's an interesting idea, but movie-series-movie-series-movie always seemed like a recipe for disaster.

By the boy do you mean Jake? As in, he changed the way Jake dies in The Gunslinger? Because no, he still dies the same way.

I really hope you're wrong, but that sounds frustratingly likely.

In fairness, the second page of The Gunslinger explicitly states that Roland lost his hat along the way, and he doesn't get a replacement at least through the middle of the third book. I know he always had a hat in the art, and he may have gotten a new hat at some point, but Roland was hatless for a significant chunk…

Interesting. I guess I can see how that would bother you, but I never really felt like he stole focus from Kara. He probably got the most focus of any of the supporting players outside of Alex, but I thought it was always clearly focused on Supergirl above all else.

"It was OK" isn't a very interesting opinion, so I think people naturally tend toward "It was the BEST EVER" or "It was the WORST EVER" when the truth is usually somewhere in the middle.

Can you explain the Mon-El hate? Because I absolutely do not get it.

I think @VincentPriceisRight:disqus nailed it. It's a decent season with some standout episodes. People are way, way too hard on it.