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When favorite series kill themselves
13 years ago
I've lost my favorite hypothetically young adult/children's series to minor details and a sell-out author. For anyone who might have read my last journal, I was not insane to my knowledge at the time or making a vain attemt at seeking attention. I merely needed somewhere no one who knows me in person (at least yet) possibly knows about to rant.
Moving on, I just started the last book in the Alex Rider series (Scorpia Rising) finally, and I liked the first part a lot. There were minor annoyances, but I was able to overlook them. Then I got to the first part that focuses on the main protagonist of the whole series. Naturally, the author had the appropriate he's gotten older, blah blah blah part that makes sense in there. Then it got to Alex's strengths in school and extracurricular activities. Anthony Horowitz lost me at the part where Alex is leading a soccer team and has a fairly important part in his school's production of Grease. Why? WHY?!
For one what Alex was good at in school is never mentioned before and doesn't quite seem congruent with what I recall of the other books. The only things that had bearing in those were his involuntarily given 'spy skills'. His physics teacher's praise has no bearing on the feats performed up to that point in the series. And why does he have to have the 'ideal' school life? He seemed to be at least a partial outcast in most of the other books. Come on! Inconsistent and uncreative to say the least.
I slammed the book shut and immediately went online to see if there was anyway to comment about this on the book's web site. There was not, but it was full of cheesy ads for an Iphone app, printable 'activities', and other sell-out bull. I am most displeased with you, Anthony Horowitz.
If anyone bothers to read this, please post your stories of disillusionment with favorite series, or if you're lucky enough not to have any, please tell me what you read so I can try it and hopefully have the same experience.
Moving on, I just started the last book in the Alex Rider series (Scorpia Rising) finally, and I liked the first part a lot. There were minor annoyances, but I was able to overlook them. Then I got to the first part that focuses on the main protagonist of the whole series. Naturally, the author had the appropriate he's gotten older, blah blah blah part that makes sense in there. Then it got to Alex's strengths in school and extracurricular activities. Anthony Horowitz lost me at the part where Alex is leading a soccer team and has a fairly important part in his school's production of Grease. Why? WHY?!
For one what Alex was good at in school is never mentioned before and doesn't quite seem congruent with what I recall of the other books. The only things that had bearing in those were his involuntarily given 'spy skills'. His physics teacher's praise has no bearing on the feats performed up to that point in the series. And why does he have to have the 'ideal' school life? He seemed to be at least a partial outcast in most of the other books. Come on! Inconsistent and uncreative to say the least.
I slammed the book shut and immediately went online to see if there was anyway to comment about this on the book's web site. There was not, but it was full of cheesy ads for an Iphone app, printable 'activities', and other sell-out bull. I am most displeased with you, Anthony Horowitz.
If anyone bothers to read this, please post your stories of disillusionment with favorite series, or if you're lucky enough not to have any, please tell me what you read so I can try it and hopefully have the same experience.
