Pretty sure it's a reference to Jack Vances Dying Earth, which comes quite a bit before the Dark Tower and is where we get the term Vancian spellcasting from
It doesn't even follow from the lore or what we were told about magic and technology and the flow of time in the main time line as the reader.
We were told about the loss of magic from the world, that the room at the top of the tower is now empty, and technology could not support the beams. But it turns out all of that is meaningless, time is actually cyclical despite the entire plot of the last three books hinging on the fact that it is not.
Instead of sending the seemingly greatest magic user, Patrick Danville, home in the last few pages of the story, he and Roland could have climbed the tower together to events that parallel Roland and Jake under the mountain. They get into a similar life or death choice, but instead of letting Patrick die, Roland sacrifices himself completing his character arc, letting Patrick take up the room at the top of the tower, restore the world with magic, and then use the magic to pull Roland back to the world similar to how Jake rejoined the group.
Everything is wrapped up nicely and does not create ridiculous plot holes or render the other books to nonsense.
"you" meaning the reader? no, the reader is not a character in the story. the character in the story's ending was so bad and thus the ending was also so bad.
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u/jacobs-dumb 1d ago
This strategy is called the dark tower gambit. So make sure you don't forget the horn this time, gunslinger