The Darksmith Legacy

[mtemplar_fic]

The website is open!

http://www.thedarksmithlegacy.com/#/homepage

Anyone else playing along yet? Sadly, my books won't arrive until next week. There's possibly (remote at best) some spoilers in here for the Easter Special (ie Mordane), but it's unclear right now how relevant this series is in relation to television canon.

Comments

[garpu.livejournal.com]

How is that one?

[platypus]

I'm fairly disappointed with it in relation to the Telos books analyzing the first three seasons. The other books either actually engaged a cross-section of fandom to write opinions/reviews, or at least quoted other perspectives broadly. (And, yeah, I know what happened with the Torchwood book, when they decided that quoting LJ broadly, without asking permission, was a good idea.) This book's skinny, and the episode analyses just a few pages each; you can just see them frantically snipping out blog and forum quotes. As a result, it's very much just Walker's perspective, and Walker is Wrong About Many Things. He starts whining every time Donna raises her voice, and he doesn't really pick up on a lot of interesting details in the episodes that I might've missed, either; it feels like he's phoning it in. Shaun Lyon was just better. Pity that he apparently became so disillusioned with the show.

But I'm a completist, and for $15 I can't say I didn't enjoy reading it. I just don't think I'll browse through it again and again like I do the others; there's so much less analysis of the season arc, the relationships, everything. Makes me wish About Time would do some books on the new series (preferably without Mad Larry, but I did think having multiple perspectives was A Good Thing).

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Hrm...might look for it used.

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

That's disappointing - considering Series 4 is arguably my favorite. What happened with Shaun Lyon?