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Stephen Kingcast

Episode 150-Stand By the Tower (Re-Released)

Stephen Kingcast

Constant Reader

Books, Arts:books, Arts, Tv & Film

4.7680 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, I do a deep dive analysis exploring the relationship between The Stand and the Dark Tower.  Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

This land is your land, this land is my land, from California to the New York Island,

0:15.0

from the redwood forest to the Gulfstream waters.

0:21.6

This land was made for you and me as I was walking a ribbon of...

0:32.6

Hello everyone and welcome to the Stephen King cast, one man's musings on the works of Stephen King.

0:36.6

Each week I'll review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King and the chronological order of publication,

0:41.8

which brings us to this episode, which is a bonus episode that will be released on the same day as the third part in a three-part review of Stephen King's 1990 re-release of the stand,

0:52.4

the complete and unimbridged edition. So what this episode is is going to

0:57.6

tie in the stand into the larger Stephen King universe, specifically the Dark Tower series.

1:07.2

So if you have not read the Dark Tower series, then I would not continue with this

1:13.5

particular episode. I would come back later after you have finished the Dark Tower. So

1:18.1

the first Dark Tower connection clearly is Randall Flag. So if you have not done so already,

1:26.1

I have talked about Flag at length.

1:28.9

I have spoken about Flag in the Gunslinger review,

1:33.9

the second part of the Gunsinger Review,

1:36.6

the Eyes of the Dragon review.

1:39.2

There's a bonus episode in Eyes of the Dragon.

1:41.8

I believe I spoke about Randall Flag in the bonus episode of the of it, as well as

1:50.5

the drawing of the three episode and the bonus episode drawing of the three.

1:55.5

So I have spoken about Flag at length.

1:58.7

And then of course there's all of the times I spoke about Flag

2:01.0

within the three-part review of the stand.

2:05.3

And next week's episode, Stan, the movie directed by Mick Garris.

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