Why I don't like TBOTSS

Jerry Friedman · 28 May 2002, 20:36 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Why I don't like TBOTSS
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 13:36:06 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Michael Straight <straight at email.unc.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Adam Stephanides wrote:
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> > And the more I think about it, the more Wolfe's failure to depict
> Horn's
> > relationship with Krait seems like a cop-out. =20
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> [...]
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> > Regardless of what Wolfe's
> > actual motives were, it feels like he didn't show the developing
> > relationship because he couldn't figure out how to make it plausible.

I liked the scenes we saw, and I didn't really feel the need for more.

> Or maybe he edited it out because he wanted to show us the similar story
> of how Jahlee became Silkhorn's daughter, and having both seemed too
> repetitive.
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> Of course it's not the same, since Silkhorn isn't just Horn, and Horn
> loving Krait is probably even more of a stretch than Silkhorn loving
> Jahlee.

Not for me, since Krait has Sinew's soul, and the intense reasons
Horn has to dislike Krait are not the years of habits that keep him
from getting along with Sinew.

Jerry Friedman

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