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I definitely agree with the "last minute" feel to the resolution of the Outland story. I was getting the feeling even in the first half that Carroll was leaving the Outland farce behind because he couldn't meld that properly into the serious side that was developing. The tacked on conclusion seems to confirm that.
And Uggug. He struck me as the least culpable of the "villains", so why pick him to get the short end of the stick? It makes no sense - to my morality, nor to Carroll's I would have thought (especially given one of the lectures Arthur gave) - to forgive those that should have known better, but to reject the one that never really had a chance.
You mentioned earlier that you thought the illustrations were lovely. They were very well done, even to the extent that Bruno looks like the little smart-ah ... person that I was picturing in my mind. But there is something a little too womanly (as opposed to young girl) about Sylvie that doesn't quite meet with what I was picturing.
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