C.S. Friedman; DaredevilelleesttroisMarch 7 2003, 02:20:50 UTC
Friedman is a personal fav and I really enjoyed the trilogy. I thought the end to the final book was a little bit of an out. Perhaps the author saving her fav character. I enjoyed the tension between the main protagonists. On a second reading, the relationship took on a slightly UST feel.
Your comments about Sawyer reflect the way I felt about reading Tad Williams. It's like he spent all this time building weight and meaning into a certain character and then having them not matter. It would be like Frodo carrying the ring, but at the end of the books, the ring has no meaning or power; the power lay in something else. Kinda steals the wind from the sails.
Yeah, about Daredevil. So sad. Garner really had no chemistry w/ Affleck. And you are so right about the beginning. I was thinking, "Die, already," to the kid's old man. Kingpin is hardly on screen long enough to qualify for evil guy status. Wasted film stock.
It's been a while since I read that Friedman trilogy, but I remember liking it a lot, even when I felt the moral conflicts a little too viscerally, or got upset at certain deaths. I agree that the conflicts between hero and antihero were by far the best part
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Oh yes, they were slashy. So much so that Berg had to give Alexsander a perfect woman, in love with him despite how mean he was to her, and tell us that he was in love with her rather than show us that. I thought the relationship worked overall, but it would have been nice to see the tension acknowledged and then mutually ignored, given Seyonne's responsibility to his race & Alexsander's to his kingdom.
You didn'tlike release....
anonymous
March 13 2003, 00:09:37 UTC
Um, sorry, you don't know me, and I'm actually a fan of your Buffy fanfic, but I'm also a PSB kind of girl, and I just wanted to agree with you about Disco 3. Except I loved Release. Home and Dry blew my mind. Although I'd say I'm in love with a married man is probaly the best thing on Disco3. Reminded me a bit of Bet She's not your Girlfriend, which is probaly in my PSB top ten- you have no idea how excited I was when I saw it quoted in the summary to Changes.
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Your comments about Sawyer reflect the way I felt about reading Tad Williams. It's like he spent all this time building weight and meaning into a certain character and then having them not matter. It would be like Frodo carrying the ring, but at the end of the books, the ring has no meaning or power; the power lay in something else. Kinda steals the wind from the sails.
Yeah, about Daredevil. So sad. Garner really had no chemistry w/ Affleck. And you are so right about the beginning. I was thinking, "Die, already," to the kid's old man. Kingpin is hardly on screen long enough to qualify for evil guy status. Wasted film stock.
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