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Current Talk '08 II / Re: I am a Fan of LEVITHANS. BUT how could have the story been better??
« on: August 02, 2008, 12:52:16 AM »
In Ang's personal timeline, I guess that's the last we see of her.
CE--- Until I got my tapes in 2002, going by my childhood memories, I was absolutely convinced Petofi had appeared in the present. In fact, I remembered heated, anxious discussions (around a table in one of the upstairs rooms, with Julia, Barnabas, maybe Stokes, the Hand in the box beside them) in the present, about the world ending if he ever arrived and got his Hand back from where it was hidden and protected in Collinwood. I didn't even remember seeing Petofi in the past, and when he appeared in 1897, on my tapes, it felt like just a prologue to the more earth-shaking events with him in the present day.
As much as I wanted Petofi there, I'd rather ditch the Leviathans and give Petofi his own story. He would have seemed as shoehorned into Leviathans as Blair did.
Barnabas/Maggie in Leviathans... as important as Barnabas-Josette is to the basic story and mindset of Barnabas, I lost patience when they seemed to throw an echo or retread of that story into later storylines, without any apparent connection to the storyline, with nothing fresh added. Barnabas saw Josette in so many realities (twice in 1897 with two different KLS characters!) and started the mooning process all over again so many times, that it became ludicrous I think. No disrespect intended to anyone who loves the frequent returns to Barn/Josette.
CE--- Until I got my tapes in 2002, going by my childhood memories, I was absolutely convinced Petofi had appeared in the present. In fact, I remembered heated, anxious discussions (around a table in one of the upstairs rooms, with Julia, Barnabas, maybe Stokes, the Hand in the box beside them) in the present, about the world ending if he ever arrived and got his Hand back from where it was hidden and protected in Collinwood. I didn't even remember seeing Petofi in the past, and when he appeared in 1897, on my tapes, it felt like just a prologue to the more earth-shaking events with him in the present day.
As much as I wanted Petofi there, I'd rather ditch the Leviathans and give Petofi his own story. He would have seemed as shoehorned into Leviathans as Blair did.
Barnabas/Maggie in Leviathans... as important as Barnabas-Josette is to the basic story and mindset of Barnabas, I lost patience when they seemed to throw an echo or retread of that story into later storylines, without any apparent connection to the storyline, with nothing fresh added. Barnabas saw Josette in so many realities (twice in 1897 with two different KLS characters!) and started the mooning process all over again so many times, that it became ludicrous I think. No disrespect intended to anyone who loves the frequent returns to Barn/Josette.