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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8996254" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>I reread the original trilogy (and the Lost Chronicles, which fill in some of the gaps in it) in the leadup to SotDQ being released last year. It really struck me that you'd need to do a bit of work to make ANY of the characters particularly likeable by modern lights, to be honest. Sturm is again and again a judgmental stiff-necked prig, Raistlin is a snide and selfish gaslighting user and jerk, Gilthanas is pretty awful, Tika and Laurana and Silvara (and even Goldmoon, early on) continually chuck their pride and dignity out the window trailing after men who constantly dismiss them in favour of other priorities, Tanis spends his time 'leading the group' by manipulating everyone rather than genuinely listening to their concerns, and Tasselhoff is the source of ALL the worst kender cliches.</p><p></p><p>It reminds me a little of later-season Buffy, with the character dynamics. You keep getting TOLD that these people are friends, but you're SHOWN them fighting continually and treating each other unforgiveably in the name of drama and character development. You'd need to balance the fights with scenes of them actually being friends, or you end up wondering why these people are actually hanging around together if they hate each other so much, and feeling like spending time with them is a miserable and emotionally draining experience. You need more stuff like the book scene when Raistlin, Tika, Caramon, etc spend time working as entertainers for a while and actually enjoy each other's company, or when Sturm makes a very uncharacteristic joke to Raistlin about 'the Great Worm Catyrpelius' which is a genuine compliment for something clever Raistlin did a book and a half earlier.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8996254, member: 5948"] I reread the original trilogy (and the Lost Chronicles, which fill in some of the gaps in it) in the leadup to SotDQ being released last year. It really struck me that you'd need to do a bit of work to make ANY of the characters particularly likeable by modern lights, to be honest. Sturm is again and again a judgmental stiff-necked prig, Raistlin is a snide and selfish gaslighting user and jerk, Gilthanas is pretty awful, Tika and Laurana and Silvara (and even Goldmoon, early on) continually chuck their pride and dignity out the window trailing after men who constantly dismiss them in favour of other priorities, Tanis spends his time 'leading the group' by manipulating everyone rather than genuinely listening to their concerns, and Tasselhoff is the source of ALL the worst kender cliches. It reminds me a little of later-season Buffy, with the character dynamics. You keep getting TOLD that these people are friends, but you're SHOWN them fighting continually and treating each other unforgiveably in the name of drama and character development. You'd need to balance the fights with scenes of them actually being friends, or you end up wondering why these people are actually hanging around together if they hate each other so much, and feeling like spending time with them is a miserable and emotionally draining experience. You need more stuff like the book scene when Raistlin, Tika, Caramon, etc spend time working as entertainers for a while and actually enjoy each other's company, or when Sturm makes a very uncharacteristic joke to Raistlin about 'the Great Worm Catyrpelius' which is a genuine compliment for something clever Raistlin did a book and a half earlier. [/QUOTE]
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