Post by Shiryu on Jan 30, 2008 12:11:35 GMT -5
I have in front of me the Sentinels Omnibus edition, and what I can say is WOW 
It's a huge book, over 650 pages in A4 format, with the 3 books and a number of extras. All within a superthick hard cover. In short one of those books that you hope will never fall on your head ^^
I have only read some of the extras so far, but the "behind the scenes" section caught my eye almost immediately. It confirms one thing you had mentioned here (Cavalier being born to die) and one I had imagined (Pulsas being your favorite character).
The part where you talk about early readers being unhappy with Damon's death was very funny, as I can see their point ^^
He was a bit like the early Hawkeye so, at least for me, the hope was to have him doing something really eroic and becoming a better person. On the other hand, I didn't grow really fond of Pulsar until the beginning of the final book... I think that by trying really hard to make her a character that everyone would like, you kind of obtained the opposite result in the beginning and she was a bit annoying. However, she is probably the one who evolves the most during the trilogy, so the end result is certainly good.
Another interesting part was the overuse of the blue/red distinctions for the Warlord and Karbaraak and how you later changed it retroactively. Funny enough, I must have one of the early editions of the first book, because the alien still divides in blue and red version there. The use of colors is a very neat tool, heps to visualize the character without needing to go too much into graphic details and a possibly boring description.
The art gallery is amazing
For me, the best one is the 1st, then the 2nd and finally the 3rd (which is a bit too asimmetric), but all the sketches in the book are stunning! And to think that some of those were made at conferences after just a quick description of the character... wow
Finally, I found very interesting when you said how Francisco basically saved his own life, stopping you from killing him until the very end. Some characters are like that, you have a full set of plans for them, ending with death, and then realize that they can do more, or that writing them is just too much fun to kill 'em off, and they last longer and longer ^^ I, for one, am glad he lasted so much ;D
PS. the Piet Mondrian coincidence is stunning!
It's a huge book, over 650 pages in A4 format, with the 3 books and a number of extras. All within a superthick hard cover. In short one of those books that you hope will never fall on your head ^^
I have only read some of the extras so far, but the "behind the scenes" section caught my eye almost immediately. It confirms one thing you had mentioned here (Cavalier being born to die) and one I had imagined (Pulsas being your favorite character).
The part where you talk about early readers being unhappy with Damon's death was very funny, as I can see their point ^^
He was a bit like the early Hawkeye so, at least for me, the hope was to have him doing something really eroic and becoming a better person. On the other hand, I didn't grow really fond of Pulsar until the beginning of the final book... I think that by trying really hard to make her a character that everyone would like, you kind of obtained the opposite result in the beginning and she was a bit annoying. However, she is probably the one who evolves the most during the trilogy, so the end result is certainly good.
Another interesting part was the overuse of the blue/red distinctions for the Warlord and Karbaraak and how you later changed it retroactively. Funny enough, I must have one of the early editions of the first book, because the alien still divides in blue and red version there. The use of colors is a very neat tool, heps to visualize the character without needing to go too much into graphic details and a possibly boring description.
The art gallery is amazing
For me, the best one is the 1st, then the 2nd and finally the 3rd (which is a bit too asimmetric), but all the sketches in the book are stunning! And to think that some of those were made at conferences after just a quick description of the character... wow Finally, I found very interesting when you said how Francisco basically saved his own life, stopping you from killing him until the very end. Some characters are like that, you have a full set of plans for them, ending with death, and then realize that they can do more, or that writing them is just too much fun to kill 'em off, and they last longer and longer ^^ I, for one, am glad he lasted so much ;D
PS. the Piet Mondrian coincidence is stunning!
