True. But I also wonder how many people would be interested in the movie but not interested in owning the show.

It really is! Don't regret it a bit.

Yeah absolutely. I watched the whole run a little while back, including the movie and The Missing Pieces - a while after they announced The Return, but not super recently, and I can say I'm very glad I did. I can't necessarily tell you exactly what names come from what, but I feel like I'm at least putting names…

It seems to me like more Lynch is very likely at some point in the future.

I actually think there's stuff in The Missing Pieces that helps to make (marginally more) sense of The Return.

Exactly my thoughts. I can't conceive of another scenario where I'd be skipping out on a Lynch movie put out by Criterion, but unless they announce a fair amount of new stuff, this would literally be me buying it so that I'd have that spine number accounted for on my Criterion spreadsheet. YES I SAID SPREADSHEET…

Yeah, a decent amount of new stuff would get me to double up. The November B&N Criterion sale won't be long after this goes on sale, so…

Yeah, I double dipped on the blu-ray set almost immediately, which was maybe kind of dumb, but the attraction for me at the time was getting Fire Walk on blu-ray and off of my old snapper case, and getting The Missing Pieces.

The OCD side of me wants that spine number…

I love Fire Walk, and I love the Criterion Collection, but given that there's almost nothing here that isn't already on the complete collection, this will be a pass for me. First time for everything, I guess.

I don't know; I think a tv series could do the job fairly well. With a couple of exceptions (Shardik, maybe, or maybe Lud as a whole), there's not that much VFX wise in these books that would really require a movie budget, and it seems to me to be a taller order to try to get the books to fit into the shape of a few…

Totally valid. I was more getting at the point that it's a semi risky venture in that if you were relying on that core audience to be a safe bet, you'd want the core audience to be at least reasonably sizable.

I liked it quite a bit. It felt like the first 4 in a way that the last 3 didn't. That said, it's very slight. Definitely not consequential, but I enjoyed feeling like I was in Midworld again for the first time in a long time.

There are bits and pieces of 5 - 7 that I like, but very little of it felt like The Dark Tower to me. I think the accident freaked him out, he was worried about not finishing his magnum opus, and rather than waiting to feel the pull to Midworld and writing when the story was speaking to him, he cranked them out. …

Better but still substantially below average (for him). The bottom line is that it would be a gamble. You'd need at least 4 or 5 seasons to do the books justice, and it's hard to say how much audience there is.

I'd say that there's material here to suggest that he's a replicant, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that there's anything here to confirm it.

Yeah, that's my thought too. Setting aside how the tone changes after his accident, there's the matter of getting the rights to all of the properties that a studio would have to get in order to stay "book true", which - ain't gonna happen.

Nah, he's the real deal, at least as much so as I am. Loves fantasy, loves sci-fi, he's even writing his own sci-fi book right now. No idea if it's hard sci-fi.

Sometimes I wonder, though - how much of a built in audience is there, actually? The DT books always felt to me like the Stephen King books that most Stephen King fans didn't read. I just did a cursory Google search, and (legitimacy not being verified), all of the DT books sales numbers were short a zero or two in…

Yeah, I can't imagine that pitching these as a straight adaptation would be an easy thing. "Well see this army of Doctor Doom robots rides out on horseback, and they're throwing out killer Golden Snitches from Harry Potter!" And that comes from one of the NON-coked out books…