When Pieces on a Chess Board Get Up and Tell you Where to Go

[setsuled]

It's not a good sign when one of the greatest chess players of our time is beaten by police and arrested for peaceful demonstration of dissent. I guess whatever weirdness the U.S. is into with Julian Assange, I ought to be thankful punk bands aren't being sentenced to two years in prison for "hooliganism". Well, not above the board, anyway

Comments

[stsisyphus]

I'm gonna have to go and re-read the entire series all as a go, since I was expecting something more long-form (a la Venia's Travels, etc.); so I was sort of thrown by the pacing here in the last chapter. Still, I did feel it was slightly abrupt. And yet it did have that noirish edge of bad things happening for bad motives.

[setsuled]

I would've liked to have had at least one more chapter, but it wasn't to be. I have to start school to-morrow and there's no way I'd have time. I may do a Halloween special or something if I can squeeze it in and if I'm still in a living situation that makes it possible. I do generally like endings that leave a lot of unresolved issues, with characters who have needs that are simply never going to be fulfilled or even addressed. I find it soothingly honest.