OMG,yes! There are so many scenes where I'd like a little more insight into what the characters, but Tarvek in particular, were thinking.

I tend to agree on the idealism and lack of real experience...though it's countered by his very real experience of the nitty-gritty of daily survival among his family and their associates. To me it feels like in some ways he's got the extremes down, but has too little first-hand awareness of the middle ground.