Full Circle Review Thread (Spoilers)
- Thread starter Kirsten Beyer
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Well I just got full circle in the post today (i got it at about midday) I finished it by about half five. I literally could not put it down all afternoon.
It just felt so good, the characters were all so well portrayed, Janeway's death felt alot more powerful here than in before dishonour. (I also chuckled at phoebe's comment about her "phallic" monument.)
The J/C relationship idea I was never really a fan of before. But it was portrayed so beautifully here that I actually felt very sad at the idea that it would never now come to fruition.
Also the "non-canon" characters here i thought were all superb. Cambridge I adored! It's always nice to see some Brits in Voy (I get the feeling they're abit more sparse here than in other series, might be my imagination) His attitude was so refreshing compared to the previous consellor in Spirit Walk. I felt maybe there was an element of trying to sweep Spirit Walk under the rug as far as plot angles were concerned, but that didn't bother me. There were so many loose ends left with SW that I had trouble believing that Christie Golden got away with it!
It was good how the novel fit seamlessly into the timeline and even cleared up some points from other novels (the mobile emitter in ATFWATFP for instance.)
If I had one criticism I thought maybe it was *slightly* unfeasible that B'Elanna would be able to construct a Slipstream Engine and Transphasic Torpedoes ostensiblely from memory, but on the other hand it seemed believable.
Finally I am glad that I now understand why KRAD's laugh was an evil one when we saw her and Miral on the casualty list!
5/5
Can't wait until Unworthy!
It just felt so good, the characters were all so well portrayed, Janeway's death felt alot more powerful here than in before dishonour. (I also chuckled at phoebe's comment about her "phallic" monument.)
The J/C relationship idea I was never really a fan of before. But it was portrayed so beautifully here that I actually felt very sad at the idea that it would never now come to fruition.
Also the "non-canon" characters here i thought were all superb. Cambridge I adored! It's always nice to see some Brits in Voy (I get the feeling they're abit more sparse here than in other series, might be my imagination) His attitude was so refreshing compared to the previous consellor in Spirit Walk. I felt maybe there was an element of trying to sweep Spirit Walk under the rug as far as plot angles were concerned, but that didn't bother me. There were so many loose ends left with SW that I had trouble believing that Christie Golden got away with it!
It was good how the novel fit seamlessly into the timeline and even cleared up some points from other novels (the mobile emitter in ATFWATFP for instance.)
If I had one criticism I thought maybe it was *slightly* unfeasible that B'Elanna would be able to construct a Slipstream Engine and Transphasic Torpedoes ostensiblely from memory, but on the other hand it seemed believable.
Finally I am glad that I now understand why KRAD's laugh was an evil one when we saw her and Miral on the casualty list!
5/5
Can't wait until Unworthy!
I figured Tom was smuggling her the specs or something.
I guess I assumed that she somehow hacked into the appropriate databases to find out what she needed to know.
Hey, for seven years, she was able to build shuttlecraft out of pocket lint and wishes; how much harder would a slipstream engine be?
^^ Yeah, that was how I looked at it, too. For the most part anyway, and that she knew exactly where to find any specs that she needed. ::shrugs:: Anyway, I didn't think it was too far out of reach for her to figure it out.
Full Circle is a brilliant pair of novels. So many of the reasons have already been stated quite eloquently in this thread. The bottom line is that the book made me care about post-finale Voyager stories again, and I am eagerly anticipating the followup.
EDIT: I just remembered something cool I wanted to thank you for, Kirsten. The Klingon homage to the Raiders of the Lost Ark map room and the Nazis digging in the wrong place is wonderful.
EDIT: I just remembered something cool I wanted to thank you for, Kirsten. The Klingon homage to the Raiders of the Lost Ark map room and the Nazis digging in the wrong place is wonderful.
Actually, since Voyager no doubt had an industrial replicator aboard, they literally could have made a shuttlecraft out of pocket lint and wishes, if they'd had an amount of pocket lint equalling or exceeding the mass of a shuttlecraft and containing the necessary elements and compounds, and if the wishes had been delivered in the form of design specifications programmed into the replicator.
Although, well, I guess there isn't likely to be much duranium in lint. Which is why they probably replicated their shuttles out of material mined from various planets and asteroids along the way.
Although, well, I guess there isn't likely to be much duranium in lint. Which is why they probably replicated their shuttles out of material mined from various planets and asteroids along the way.
I always thought that the replicator worked by rearranging atoms or something.
Boy, I'm glad I didn't say "out of thin air"...
Well, let's see. Air contains oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon, not to mention various metallic elements in the dust...
two, one to hold the light bulb...
I just finished Darkling to see the artifact that was mentioned. UMMMMM.... Did not see it. Can anyone give me a hint?
I believe it was the untranslated alien writing that Zahir showed Kes on their walk.
Ah ok. So did Captain Eden hvae just a picture of it?
It's been a while since I read the manuscript, but my recollection is that it wasn't the same artifact, but rather an artifact with writing in the same alien language. It wasn't the specific object Eden recognized but the writing upon it. And she'd also seen images of that writing from the ruins on the Travelers' outpost in Voyager's records of its travels.
