Long days, pleasant nights, and welcome to Kingslingers, a doof media podcast journeying through Stephen King's Dark Tower series and beyond.

I'm your host, Consta, Dr. Scott Dale, and I'm joined by my good friend currently calculating the shock absorption potential of a large pile of napkins.

It's Matt Freeman.

How's it going this week, Matt?

You would have died, Scott.

He would have died. Okay, Matt. You would have died, Scott. You would have died.

Okay, Matt.

It's a fantasy story.

Remember, there's a dragon.

Would have at least shattered his bones.

This week on the show, we continue our coverage of Stephen King's The Eyes of the Dragon.

This time we're covering chapters 102 to 142,

a.k.a. the end of the book. We're doing it this week, Matt. We're going to finish it.

Yeah. And a very satisfying ending it was. It was. I am curious just at the top here,

you know, we kind of touched last week how we felt like there was a lot to do,

or at least I felt like I questioned you if there was a lot to do in these final 40 years or so chapters.

Did you feel like the ending was rushed or did you feel like it was paced well?

I did not particularly feel that it was rushed because there were really only a few things that I felt

like we needed to see happen and those involved something of a redemption for Thomas, something

of a redemption for Dennis and then and then Peter being free and and the

confronting flag and like that was like all that had to happen you know so so yeah like there's a

bunch of different twists and turns in terms of how that happened and I building up to it I was

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