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bill_mchale · 10-01-2008, 02:27 PM

I agree Xenophon, mostly. Yep, he gets into trouble easily, yes, much of the joy of the books comes from the characters and how they grow and change through the series. Where I disagree, and its more with Blackvoid is that Miles gets out of trouble easily. It may sometimes seem that way because the normal plotting of the books is often reminiscent of cinematic space opera in that the plot usually resolves in the last 2 chapters or so after getting steadily more complicated for the first 4/5s of the book. That being said, usually that resolution is worked into the plot from early on, and more importantly Miles and others in the story rarely come out of the situation completely unscathed... in fact several of the books deal directly with the consequences of previous books.

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Bill

10-01-2008, 02:27 PM	#34
bill_mchale Wizard Posts: 1,451 Karma: 1550000 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Maryland, USA Device: Nook Simple Touch, HPC Evo 4G LTE	I agree Xenophon, mostly. Yep, he gets into trouble easily, yes, much of the joy of the books comes from the characters and how they grow and change through the series. Where I disagree, and its more with Blackvoid is that Miles gets out of trouble easily. It may sometimes seem that way because the normal plotting of the books is often reminiscent of cinematic space opera in that the plot usually resolves in the last 2 chapters or so after getting steadily more complicated for the first 4/5s of the book. That being said, usually that resolution is worked into the plot from early on, and more importantly Miles and others in the story rarely come out of the situation completely unscathed... in fact several of the books deal directly with the consequences of previous books. -- Bill