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SpaceManSpiff wrote:Alistar McKeon

Oh, Alistair. Poor Alistair. How I miss you, Alistair!!

At least my darling Tom Theisman is picking up the slack as Honor's primary Lancer. (Warning: link leads to TVTropes!!) God knows she needs somebody to do it!

roseandheather wrote:

SpaceManSpiff wrote:Alistar McKeon

Oh, Alistair. Poor Alistair. How I miss you, Alistair!!

At least my darling Tom Theisman is picking up the slack as Honor's primary Lancer. (Warning: link leads to TVTropes!!) God knows she needs somebody to do it!

RnH;
Y'know, I read that link. And for the life of me...
I KNOW that Miles and Ivan fit that trope, but DARNED if I can figure out where.

dreamrider

When I relized he had died at the end of the battle it was like a punch to the gut.
I couldn't believe it.
He was my favorite of the supporting characters!
Gotta go with Michelle now. Love her command style!

Yeah, for me the end of the battle of Manticore went something like.
"Ok Kuzak is dead it's a bummer but she was never that interesting to me, D'orville dead, well ok."
Three seconds later after I have read the passage about McKeon's death, "what is wrong with you David Weber, I stopped reading the Hornblower series for 3 years after Bush died and I did not like it at all afterwards you just killed my favorite character!" And also "where is the complaints box because I have an book sized one right here"

BrigadeΔ wrote:Yeah, for me the end of the battle of Manticore went something like.
"Ok Kuzak is dead it's a bummer but she was never that interesting to me, D'orville dead, well ok."
Three seconds later after I have read the passage about McKeon's death, "what is wrong with you David Weber, I stopped reading the Hornblower series for 3 years after Bush died and I did not like it at all afterwards you just killed my favorite character!" And also "where is the complaints box because I have an book sized one right here"

This is very much in David's view that a war story in which only the bad guys die is war "porn". In wars, even the good guys have casualties. Like the MASH episode in which Henry Blake was lost - a real gut wrencher. Yes I was vastly disappointed when McKeon was killed, but I understood what he was doing. I felt the same way when Anne McCaffrey killed off the Master Harper Robinton - arrgh - how could you do this to me?

BrigadeΔ wrote:Yeah, for me the end of the battle of Manticore went something like.
"Ok Kuzak is dead it's a bummer but she was never that interesting to me, D'orville dead, well ok."
Three seconds later after I have read the passage about McKeon's death, "what is wrong with you David Weber, I stopped reading the Hornblower series for 3 years after Bush died and I did not like it at all afterwards you just killed my favorite character!" And also "where is the complaints box because I have an book sized one right here"

Would you have liked it better if Honor Harrington herself died? That was, after all, his original plan when he started the series.

SWM wrote:

BrigadeΔ wrote:Yeah, for me the end of the battle of Manticore went something like.
"Ok Kuzak is dead it's a bummer but she was never that interesting to me, D'orville dead, well ok."
Three seconds later after I have read the passage about McKeon's death, "what is wrong with you David Weber, I stopped reading the Hornblower series for 3 years after Bush died and I did not like it at all afterwards you just killed my favorite character!" And also "where is the complaints box because I have an book sized one right here"

Would you have liked it better if Honor Harrington herself died? That was, after all, his original plan when he started the series.

I would have taken Honor's death quite a bit better than another death which occurred in AAC... *stalks off, grumbling*

Given that we can't all be the Harrington(s), Theisman(s) Tourville(s), Abigail(s), etc. aka the center of all the action who would you want to be in the Honorverse? I'll do it by "group":

RMN: "civilian types": Prince Michael, Ruth's dad., Non-Coms: besides Harkness: Aubrey Wanderman. Probably because I was a tall but skinny little thing back in the day. Bit bigger and tougher now.

RMN Marines: Mateo Gutierrez. Gets to hang with and keep Abigail from being toasted and is just plain fierce in the mean time. "long serving officer(s): Terekhov & Tremaine

Grayson: Andrew Lafollet and Judah Yanakov

Haven "civilian types": Kevin & Ginny Usher, PN then GSN: Warner Caslet, RHN: Jennifer Bellefeuille

Talbott: Naomi Kaplan or Henke's flag lieutenant Gervais

Solarian League space: MacNaughton

Torch: easy shmeezy: Thandi Palane

Currently? probably Thandi Palane. She gets to ride with the wild bunch and is naturally, about the deadliest thing on two feet but has a fun combination of youth, wit, and fierceness.

fallsfromtrees wrote:

BrigadeΔ wrote:Yeah, for me the end of the battle of Manticore went something like.
"Ok Kuzak is dead it's a bummer but she was never that interesting to me, D'orville dead, well ok."
Three seconds later after I have read the passage about McKeon's death, "what is wrong with you David Weber, I stopped reading the Hornblower series for 3 years after Bush died and I did not like it at all afterwards you just killed my favorite character!" And also "where is the complaints box because I have an book sized one right here"

This is very much in David's view that a war story in which only the bad guys die is war "porn". In wars, even the good guys have casualties. Like the MASH episode in which Henry Blake was lost - a real gut wrencher. Yes I was vastly disappointed when McKeon was killed, but I understood what he was doing. I felt the same way when Anne McCaffrey killed off the Master Harper Robinton - arrgh - how could you do this to me?

In retrospect it may have something to do with how bad the last Hornblower book was and being worried that David Weber might go the same way.

Have I talked about how much I love Eloise Pritchart?

Too bad. I'm going to do it again.

I love her. I just...... I love her. She's blindingly courageous, her emotional strength is nearly superhuman, she is fiercely intelligent and ferociously loyal and she loves with a passion that should be overwhelming. Javier or Haven, it doesn't matter - she loves, and when she loves, she loves absolutely.

I love her heart and I love her drive, I love her ability to work the rules and I love her for playing the most dangerous game in the universe because she felt love was worth the risk. I love the Brigade Commander she was, the People's Commissioner she had to be, and the President she became. I love her for what she's willing to risk, and for what she isn't. And I love her because I don't have many fictional heroes, but she is one of them.