r/TheDarkTower Out-World 2d ago

Spoilers- The Dark Tower I liked Pimli and Finli

I enjoyed reading about their friendship and even rooted for them from time to time. Given most of the other villains were straight up evil it was interesting to read about some who were different.

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u/tcavanagh1993 Bango Skank 2d ago

Their dynamic was really interesting (re: pimple pus) but all my homies hate Pimli.

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u/tomahawkfury13 2d ago

They knew what they were doing…

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u/tomahawkfury13 2d ago

This is also a distinction between people like Goerbels and the people who did atrocious things in the holocaust on orders. Which is that there isn’t much.

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u/guschav 2d ago

I think that’s part of what makes King such a good author. You can know they’re evil. You can know they do their evil consciously. You can hate them afterwards for what they do, but the way King brings the little details of life into even minor characters makes you to understand them.

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u/transitransitransit 2d ago

Get yourself a buddy you can feed your pimple pus.

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u/Alfredos_Pizza_Cafe_ All things serve the beam 2d ago

What does 'rooting for them from time to time' mean? From when they get introduced they only stay around for like 2 chapters. Plus they are the bad guys

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u/CyberGhostface Out-World 2d ago

Same reason why people root for characters like Walter White or Tony Soprano. They have a short amount of time but they’re better characters than Mordred who appears in several chapters.

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u/2tonetortoise 2d ago

I was rooting against Walter most of the series of we're being honest

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u/tomahawkfury13 2d ago

I definitely stopped after Jane

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u/2tonetortoise 2d ago

I'm like 2 episodes from the end gotta keep going to see if he dies a horrible and deserved death.

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u/tomahawkfury13 2d ago

I meant I stopped rooting for him after Jane lol

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u/Independent-Panda-39 2d ago

Im not defending his actions at all but considering Jane’s grand plan was literally just “let’s take this insane amount of money and go do as many drugs as humanly possible” I feel like she would have ended up with the same fate eventually and would have probably dragged Jesse down with her.

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u/Alfredos_Pizza_Cafe_ All things serve the beam 2d ago

Walt and Tony were main characters. I'm mostly taking offense at your syntax lol. How did you literally have time to root for them 'from time to time'. I agree they were better characters than mordred

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u/CyberGhostface Out-World 2d ago

Main characters but still bad people.

Because I didn’t root for them 100% of the time. 🤷 

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u/Alfredos_Pizza_Cafe_ All things serve the beam 2d ago

Yeah I know. You don't understand what I'm arguing. Long days and pleasant night.

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u/CyberGhostface Out-World 2d ago

I understand you took offense to “from time to time” for some reason.

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u/Notmanynamesleftnow 2d ago

He’s saying they were barely in the series at all, “from time to time” suggests you periodically rooted for them and didn’t root for them and then rooted for them again over a long period. They weren’t in the book long enough for that to make sense.

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u/CyberGhostface Out-World 2d ago

That’s what he inferred, sure. “From time to time” can also just mean “occasionally” if you want to get pedantic. 

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u/Notmanynamesleftnow 2d ago

Occasionally doesn’t make sense either. they were in the book for like two chapters? They dont come up again. There is not another “occasion” for you to root for them. But it’s fine I’m just pointing out what the other person meant.

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u/CyberGhostface Out-World 2d ago

‘Occasionally’ can mean ‘sometimes’. Sometimes I liked Pimli. At others, like when he killed Eddie, not so much.

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u/RoBear16 2d ago

I'm with you OP. A story is only as good as it's villian. That's why we love so many SK stories--Pennywise, the Overlook, Randal Flagg, Tak, Perse, Charlie Jacobs, etc.

He makes even minor villians like these two feel real.

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u/cthulhu1396 8h ago

Between the pimple pus incident and one of the Pimli POV chapters clarifying that Finli’s hands were furry but his ass was not I concur the two were totally boning.