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« on: October 05, 2005, 05:54:07 PM »
1897 is my favorite period, (almost) everything to do with Petofi in particular. That hand was lodged in my memory for the thirty years it took for me to see it again. I love all the characters and complicated interwoven storylines. There is humor but not much in the way of lightness-- Tim Shaw expected to get the hand from Quentin after Petofi actually has re-attached it by that point, is priceless. Tim goes rushing out into the night determined to get it back, when everyone but him knows he can't...
Carl suddenly re-appearing in the gloomiest of moments is fun. Carl's later exit isn't. Trask has one of the most fun deaths you're ever going to see. Charity Fay is always a scream. I love how everyone's just fine with leaving Charity possessed for the rest of her life, because Pansy Faye was fun, and Charity was lifeless. Evan Hanley getting threatened and embarrassed was funny too. Giant Quentin turning into a really short werewolf was unintentionally funny.
1897 starts falling apart for me with the Q/Petofi bodyswap. That was silly, T David wandering around saying "I am Quentin Collins!!"... in his Petofi voice! They redeem themselves with the very end to 1897, where
vague semi-spoiler (below)?? [spoiler]everyone's stories are tied up depressingly but satisfyingly, and I've decided it was even satisfying to me for BC to have achieved such mixed and inconclusive results, and information, after all that agony, time, and struggle. That's life for you.[/spoiler]