Singin Hobo
November 15th, 2005, 09:52 PM
Please do not discuss any titles that take place chronologically later than this one. We’ll get to them all soon enough, so there’s no reason to spoil it for anyone else (most notably... me :tease2:.)
:-\ I’m disappointed in this trilogy for the first time, now. The two big stories were incredibly interesting but ultimately came to no satisfactory conclusion. I would have been content to see that Nom Anor even HAD a plan for the future of his heresy, but we don’t even get that. We don’t get anything close… we see his priestess spy get killed and then that story arc just abruptly ends.
I didn’t expect the Zonoma Sekot story to find a suitable conclusion at any point, but it didn’t go anywhere good enough for me. :shrug: It was still cool, I suppose… it just seemed unnecessarily drawn out throughout the book in order to save the conclusion until later. I guess I didn’t really understand why Sekot decided to just show up to Luke and start talking to him… he hadn’t been doing anything differently besides just standing there waiting, and I still don’t understand why Sekot was so satisfied with what Jacen did that he somehow “passed” his test. He got the trees to turn away… okay… was that the big test?
I think that bothers me so much because both stories (the prophet and Zonoma Sekot) were shadowed by the ongoing struggle over the stinking communications station :rolleyes: That wasn’t interesting at all. Although, I am quite satisfied with the destruction of whiny, boring Tahiri and the re-emergence of Droma, leader of the Ryn underground.
As far as trilogies go, though, the strength of the first two titles outweigh the weaknesses of this one, so I step away ultimately satisfied.
:-\ I’m disappointed in this trilogy for the first time, now. The two big stories were incredibly interesting but ultimately came to no satisfactory conclusion. I would have been content to see that Nom Anor even HAD a plan for the future of his heresy, but we don’t even get that. We don’t get anything close… we see his priestess spy get killed and then that story arc just abruptly ends.
I didn’t expect the Zonoma Sekot story to find a suitable conclusion at any point, but it didn’t go anywhere good enough for me. :shrug: It was still cool, I suppose… it just seemed unnecessarily drawn out throughout the book in order to save the conclusion until later. I guess I didn’t really understand why Sekot decided to just show up to Luke and start talking to him… he hadn’t been doing anything differently besides just standing there waiting, and I still don’t understand why Sekot was so satisfied with what Jacen did that he somehow “passed” his test. He got the trees to turn away… okay… was that the big test?
I think that bothers me so much because both stories (the prophet and Zonoma Sekot) were shadowed by the ongoing struggle over the stinking communications station :rolleyes: That wasn’t interesting at all. Although, I am quite satisfied with the destruction of whiny, boring Tahiri and the re-emergence of Droma, leader of the Ryn underground.
As far as trilogies go, though, the strength of the first two titles outweigh the weaknesses of this one, so I step away ultimately satisfied.