*practices minor necromancy, gets undead hamster*
So, finished this, and one of the major notes that occurred to me, having done so(vaguely related to the topic at hand) is that for the first time....Bubblegum
Crash kind of works.
I admit, I've read summaries, but never really seen the thing, and having completed this, I simply couldn't help but realize that DW2 salvaged the main
parts of Crash worth saving (Sylia's advancement in characterization and Largo's final death, primarily) while ignoring the....rather bizarre oddities
(Priss and Linna quitting the Knight Sabers because they "aren't needed anymore", Linna's bizarre "thing" she had with Leon during
the series, the total absence of GENOM in the plot, even in a single reference). And it doesn't do it by rewriting the timeline or anything like that....it
just....ignores them and lets you fill in the details yourself.
Entirely off topic, I picked up from my stopping place this evening(Chapter 9) at about 8PM.
It is now 6:45AM and I'm all the way done reading this thing.
I haven't marathoned a series to that degree since I read through the first Symphony over at Eyrie when I first got into UF.
(Holy shit, the sun finished rising about an hour ago....)
So, uh, yeah. Kudos? *collapses*
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
So, finished this, and one of the major notes that occurred to me, having done so(vaguely related to the topic at hand) is that for the first time....Bubblegum
Crash kind of works.
I admit, I've read summaries, but never really seen the thing, and having completed this, I simply couldn't help but realize that DW2 salvaged the main
parts of Crash worth saving (Sylia's advancement in characterization and Largo's final death, primarily) while ignoring the....rather bizarre oddities
(Priss and Linna quitting the Knight Sabers because they "aren't needed anymore", Linna's bizarre "thing" she had with Leon during
the series, the total absence of GENOM in the plot, even in a single reference). And it doesn't do it by rewriting the timeline or anything like that....it
just....ignores them and lets you fill in the details yourself.
Entirely off topic, I picked up from my stopping place this evening(Chapter 9) at about 8PM.
It is now 6:45AM and I'm all the way done reading this thing.
I haven't marathoned a series to that degree since I read through the first Symphony over at Eyrie when I first got into UF.
(Holy shit, the sun finished rising about an hour ago....)
So, uh, yeah. Kudos? *collapses*
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."