Discussion thread for Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess. Beware, Here There be SPOILERS

[hippogrif]

Welcome.

This is a thread for discussing the Girl Genius novelization Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess, as well as all Girl Genius in general. The subject matter is the property of Phil and Kaja Foglio.

No spoilers are required in this thread. The assumption is you've read the material already. That is why this thread exists--to provide a place for people to talk without having to try to avoid giving away secrets.

I own this account. If you're rude or a jackass, I will delete your post. If you're debating in good faith and not annoying the natives, I won't. If people really can't behave, I'll delete the whole fershlugginer thread.

Have fun. Talk at will. If you don't want spoilers, run away now.

Hippogrif.

Comments

Re: Gil and Paris

[claudeng]

But Bang might not know the really good bits - remember, she still thought he was kind of a sensitive dope and didn't seem to have a very high opinion of him, so obviously she didn't see him do anything particularly impressive. Of course, rescuing chorus girls from minor villains is not something I see her being very impressed by, but she's not dumb. The level of competence that we've seen him display is something he developed somewhere, and I don't think that would have escaped her notice unless he wanted it to.

He really was a busy boy - adventures, shopping for Spark artifacts, music composition, hiding things from Bang, Tarvek, Wooster, and who knows what other spies Klaus had in place, all on top of school.

Ok, now I'm really wondering what Othar knows about Gil. Or thinks he knows, at least.

Re: Gil and Paris

[hippogrif]

Yes. But MAINLY I want to know it all, all, all!!

Re: Gil and Paris

[lightningnettle.livejournal.com]

*Offers to share a calming pie*

Yep, me too; but we must possess ourselves in patience, or risk ruining the story as it's intended.

*tea?*

Re: Gil and Paris

[lightningnettle.livejournal.com]

And you know what I want even more? I want the marked up notes and sketches of what their original plans were and how they changed and adapted them over time. I really hope they've kept them, it would be invaluable for future scholars. And nosy parkers like me. I don't want the originals, too much responsibility; but I'd love copies.

I'm betting, for instance, that a lot of what the Jagers have done, was originally assigned to Higgs. Mostly because he's the only other Agatha friendly force inside the Wulfenbach air fleet. I could be completely wrong, perhaps someone else was just plucked out.

Also, I am very curious as to who Agatha's romantic interest was supposed to be originally. If Gil was to be evil, then was she supposed to redeem him? Did Tarvek exist as a long-term character at that point? Were they going to zap Lars back and have Everyman marry our heroine? If Tarvek was to die in Sturmhalten originally, then who was to take his role in what's happened since? And when did they make that choice to keep him, before or after drawing the initial comics? Is that why the Castle fixing sequence went on longer than they originally intended, they had to integrate Tarvek into the story?