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Well, I have to admit that personally I hope they don't make a TV series. TV execs always want to change things... Its one thing when the show is original to TV, its another when its based on a book.
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I believe Weber retains enough control if this gors through that what you worry about won't occur.
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If it gets to TV, I bet the officers will be wearing their regular uniforms during battle, the ships will make noise in space and the ships will be in visual range of each other before engaging.
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Define "visual range".
Though we can hope any such series avoids the worst of those excesses. My Horrible Example was an episode of the old "Space: Above and Beyond" series, where the good guy's carrier comes under surprise attack and fighter crews have to scramble to launch.
Excuse me? Surprise attack? The carrier has stood down in supposedly peaceful space, with nothing in any direction for light years. Explain how a surprise attack is
possible by any mechanism that wouldn't get the Commodore and all of his senior officers court martialed for utter incompetence? Well, it's a dramatic episode opener, so we'll just assume the audience is too dumb to notice such things...
I was deeply amused by Weber's manipulation of the physics underlying the FTL drive used in the Honorverse to allow ships to form into "walls of battle" stationary relative to each other and whale away in Napoleonic War naval tactics modified for 3D.
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As for Honor dieing... I believe she might; but I can't imagine it happening until at least the Havenite Wars are resolved... Unlike the Napoleonic Wars... I can't imagine that Havenite Wars continuing after the definitive defeat of the Havenite fleets; that would be a good time to die.
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Harrington is modeled after the fictional Horatio Hornblower and the real Admiral Lord Nelson, and her career parallels both. Nelson dies at Trafalgar...
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That being said... the recent books have basically made both sides look like decent people with the war being continued by manipulation by the Solarians... so maybe that will extend the series in a new direction.
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Can and will. And it's not exactly manipulation by the Solarians - just by one particular group with a big stake in "business as usual".
Large stress lines are appearing in the Solarian League.
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Dennis