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: T. Stormboy

[hippogrif]

(Shrug) Fandoms all get wankers as well as saner if equally obsessive wonks (says the ultimate Tarvek wonk). But Tarvek really did manage to generate outright chittering hatred from some folks, and a LOT of people who were sure from the very start that what they thought they saw was the only possible interpretation. Some were, shall we say, both partisan and very rude about anyone who suggested that there might be more going on?

The thing is, I do think I see what happened; the Fs were trying so hard to present mysteries and do a slow developing plot, relationship, and thematic line that they were unable to reckon with the real-time responses of fans who were seeing it in page at a time peep-show format, who adored Gil, and who were making some very false assumptions about the form and genre conventions that would pertain. The result was that many, many people left no room in their textual processing for the eternal question mark, or the new fact that might adjust their thinking. And many fans love nothing better than to cheer for their team.

The novel is letting them try to compensate for the blindness and factionalism that did grow up.