Recent content by chuckdee

I can see that. Thanks for taking the time to put it into this context.

They never said that it was open. Just because someone allows you to make use of something, doesn't mean that they intend for it to be open.

People got mad at WotC for retroactively changing the license when they said they wouldn't, not for the terms in the license.

Yes, I had the same thought. I didn't see that as that much of a switch- especially after she tried to muscle in with the guy in the hall that had been put on the Axis desk earlier.

I guess we just differ in our expectations. In each case, in each time jump, they seemed to layer on top of each other. And in Cassian's case, there was mention and or consequences of things that happened. By the end of section one, there's no mention of a key detail - that the ship that he...

And still, there was no strand connecting that to where she was in the next jump. Nothing. Whether it was syril or not. When I say syril, I mean at that point he was out of her careful control. That breakdown was in my opinion a breakdown of her carefully crafted life, both professional and...

I could go with that- if the last thing we saw on Gorman wasn't her crumbling to pieces. There was never any bridge between that final scene and where we see her. And it wasn't a matter of subtle acting- there just wasn't a bridge.

It is in print. They are just between printings because of the popularity. So doing it yourself fits into a nebulous space of legality.

It seems I'm not the only one that didn't get it @Paul Farquhar . So perhaps you can spell out where in her acting she showed how Syril's death made her any different? She was doing the exact same things. She wanted to focus on Axis before, and she focused on Axis after. There was no reference...

I don't think her ending wasn't satisfying. It was the manner that they used Gorman. It was a big deal, we're told. But we're not shown that after the fact. In each other time skip, we see some remnants of the prior period- some way it developed. But not for Dedra and Gorman. It might as well...

Not necessarily redeemed- I wasn't talking about redemption. I was referring to any development whatsoever. What was her reaction? Did Syril's death matter to her? None of that was answered. In the long term, it didn't matter to her story at all, which considering how much she was putting into...

I think it is now because of the fact that the YA stuff took off more than the more mature stuff- I think because the writing sucked.

Yes, this is what I thought was missed. It seemed that there were some development possibilities- her obsession with Axis vs her relationship with Syril showing some capacity for caring at the least- culminating in that moment when Syril died and everything came crashing down on Ghorman...

All of those that I just posted were from Kickstarter campaigns of various ages.

Personally, I liked it. I thought that it and the inanity of it should have affected Dedra more. It seemed to at the time, but then after the time jump, there seemed to be no development. That was the only thing that it missed in the payoff. And Syril's character development also helped to...