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100 Things #2
Since I'm procrastinating anyway, I may as well do two of them at once. *g*
100 Things: 100 favorite scenes from anything (books, movies, TV, fanfic, etc) #2
This one is from a series of books that almost nobody on my flist has read except for me. *cough* But I know at least a few of you have! I first read them 15 years ago, somewhat unexpectedly recommended to me by a male friend (unexpected due to the fact that the h/c quotient in these books is so far through the roof that even fanfic barely touches the level of some of it).
The series in question is Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's Death Gate Cycle.
And the scene in question
**MAJOR SPOILERS HERE**
is the aftermath of Haplo's death in Book 7, Serpent Mage, when you finally catch onto the dog's function as the other half of Haplo's soul.
... admittedly I think it's apparent quite a ways before then (like, all the way in book 1) that there is something hinky about the dog and it has to do with Haplo, but I don't recall really GETTING it until the dog shows up after Haplo's death, and Alfred reacts the way that he does. And then there was that delightful penny-dropping "...ohhh!" moment, all the better because it was an AWESOME get-out-of-death-free card, the groundwork having been laid from the very first book.
I suppose there is no way to be 100% certain whether the authors had that particular fate for the dog in mind from the beginning -- there are definitely aspects of the books that make me think quite a lot of the series was unplotted, seat-of-the-pants improvising *g* -- but there is enough consistency to the dog's behavior and its relationship with Haplo that I suspect its basic nature was, indeed, part of the plan all along.
And I do love a good death fake-out. As I'm sure will become obvious as I go through the rest of these. *g*
(I must admit that for sheer h/c value, the healing scene in Fire Sea is head and shoulders above this one -- and since I have 100 of these to go through, it'll probably get its own entry eventually -- but I think this one beats it out because, seriously, seven books of setup.)
100 Things: 100 favorite scenes from anything (books, movies, TV, fanfic, etc) #2
This one is from a series of books that almost nobody on my flist has read except for me. *cough* But I know at least a few of you have! I first read them 15 years ago, somewhat unexpectedly recommended to me by a male friend (unexpected due to the fact that the h/c quotient in these books is so far through the roof that even fanfic barely touches the level of some of it).
The series in question is Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's Death Gate Cycle.
And the scene in question
**MAJOR SPOILERS HERE**
is the aftermath of Haplo's death in Book 7, Serpent Mage, when you finally catch onto the dog's function as the other half of Haplo's soul.
... admittedly I think it's apparent quite a ways before then (like, all the way in book 1) that there is something hinky about the dog and it has to do with Haplo, but I don't recall really GETTING it until the dog shows up after Haplo's death, and Alfred reacts the way that he does. And then there was that delightful penny-dropping "...ohhh!" moment, all the better because it was an AWESOME get-out-of-death-free card, the groundwork having been laid from the very first book.
I suppose there is no way to be 100% certain whether the authors had that particular fate for the dog in mind from the beginning -- there are definitely aspects of the books that make me think quite a lot of the series was unplotted, seat-of-the-pants improvising *g* -- but there is enough consistency to the dog's behavior and its relationship with Haplo that I suspect its basic nature was, indeed, part of the plan all along.
And I do love a good death fake-out. As I'm sure will become obvious as I go through the rest of these. *g*
(I must admit that for sheer h/c value, the healing scene in Fire Sea is head and shoulders above this one -- and since I have 100 of these to go through, it'll probably get its own entry eventually -- but I think this one beats it out because, seriously, seven books of setup.)
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