What's the Point of Raoul?

PeterZ wrote:I think the next story arc will be written like the Shadow of Saganami arc. There will be no one key character. Instead we will have and ensemble of characters each telling the story from a separate part of the plot.

Honor will occupy the central hub where all the spokes connect. Yet much like any central hub, it doesn't really move as much as the outer edge of the spokes. She will command the central fleet and speak with the movers and shakers of the Confederated Alliance.

PeterZ wrote:Where is that link?

PeterZ wrote:I think the next story arc will be written like the Shadow of Saganami arc. There will be no one key character. Instead we will have and ensemble of characters each telling the story from a separate part of the plot.

Honor will occupy the central hub where all the spokes connect. Yet much like any central hub, it doesn't really move as much as the outer edge of the spokes. She will command the central fleet and speak with the movers and shakers of the Confederated Alliance.

Relax wrote:DW extensively addresses this issue in the Royal Manticoran Navy interview I linked. Takes up at least half an hour of the first 2 hours. Instead of me trying to paraphrase, go get it from the horses mouth.

PeterZ wrote:I think the next story arc will be written like the Shadow of Saganami arc. There will be no one key character. Instead we will have and ensemble of characters each telling the story from a separate part of the plot.

PeterZ wrote:I think the next story arc will be written like the Shadow of Saganami arc. There will be no one key character. Instead we will have and ensemble of characters each telling the story from a separate part of the plot.

Peregrinator wrote:Hmmm, that can be extremely good, as in Torch of Freedom (told largely from the point of view of Jack McBryde); or less good, as in Shadow of Victory, where there is no one main POV.

PeterZ wrote:

PeterZ wrote:I think the next story arc will be written like the Shadow of Saganami arc. There will be no one key character. Instead we will have and ensemble of characters each telling the story from a separate part of the plot.

Peregrinator wrote:Hmmm, that can be extremely good, as in Torch of Freedom (told largely from the point of view of Jack McBryde); or less good, as in Shadow of Victory, where there is no one main POV.

I think that the Shadow of Victory style was a result in cramming more information than was originally planned. Had AAC happened as originally planned, SoV would not have been needed. Had RFC decided earlier to keep Honor alive, he could have seeded the needed information in the earlier novels.

DaveB63 wrote:I honestly think speculation is futile - Characters like Raoul are forged out of their backstory, and they tend to come to life on their own and start "writing themselves" in spite of what the author may have originally planned. We've already seen his MOTHER do that!

DaveB63 wrote:I honestly think speculation is futile - Characters like Raoul are forged out of their backstory, and they tend to come to life on their own and start "writing themselves" in spite of what the author may have originally planned. We've already seen his MOTHER do that!