Kevin's Watch

I'm a huge Donaldson fan, I'm thrilled to have found this site. Had I found it earlier...perhaps I wouldn't have gone through the trouble of creating my own. I did an SRD search on the internet 5 or 6 years ago and came up with squat! Now it seems he's finally getting some well deserved www recognition. Anyway, The Gap series is incredible. I guess I'm a bit unusual in that I tend NOT to disect a story or it's character too much. I take what the writer gives me and just go with it. To say that SRD does not "pull off" the character switch between Villian, Victimizer and Rescuer is ridiculous to me. I thought the entire series was extremely well written and superbly narrated. As for Sib Mackern being "cool"... well now, I don't know about that!

Just don't tell Jay (kevinswatch about Sib!). How is ur site? got a link? There is a smaller SRD discussion going on @ my site that u can access thru the member board...W/ such a cool name u have 2 register!!!

Heh. Well, so far through the first 3 books I think Sib Mackern is pretty cool. Warden Dios is getting pretty cool in the series as well.-jay

what I really like about the Gap is the way SRD handles the physics; no Star Wars - style flying around in spaceships here; aside from the gap drive, ships behave in space as they would be expected to: they accelerate, cost, decelerate, have inertia, spin etc. etc. It's so much more fun and realistic.

Yeah, Dios definately was a great character. So many good ones though .. hard to pick which one I like the best sometimes!

i also think that Dios is an interesting character to read about. I think if you compare the gap with the chronicles, dios and mhoram have similar character roles, and they are effectively the same within their morals.

Very interesting point of view First Mark...I had not considered the similarities between Mhoram and Dios before. They both had a "special vision," Mhoram with his visionary-dreams and Dios with this IR prosthetic. Both leaders of, what are essentially viewed as, a doomed group of people. I shall have to consider this further.
Right now I am in the middle of reading the Gap Series during my lunch breaks and the Chronicles at bedtime. I recently made what may be a autobiographical connection that for SOME reason I had never made before.....Covenenant refuses to fight, or to kill "anymore" as he puts it, stating that it is wrong to kill the twisted and bent creatures created by Lord Foul's use of the Illearth Stone because killing is wrong regardless of the cirumcstances, even to one's own demise. Then it dawned on me as I read that Donaldson was a conscienceous objector in the Vietnam war and would serve only as a medical technician. Coincidence? I wouldn't think so.

The parellel between Mhoram and Dios could be even more direct, considering that Dios' subordinates all considered him to be prescient, in a way not unlike Mhoram's visions.

Isn't Dios significantly more powerful than Mhoram? I mean, Dios practically controls everything....whereas Mhoram is pretty weak (like all the New Lords).

Mick Axbrewder wrote:Isn't Dios significantly more powerful than Mhoram? I mean, Dios practically controls everything....whereas Mhoram is pretty weak (like all the New Lords).

That depends on what kind of power you are talking about. Warden Dios does control almost immeasurably more resources in the form of money and manpower than Mhoram does. But if you measure it in the form of personal willpower, strength of character, integrity and the loyalty of their subordinates on a personal level I would take Mhoram before Dios any day.

Holt Fasner=Lord Foul

danlo wrote:Holt Fasner=Lord Foul

I always saw him as more like Kasreyn than Lord Foul. After all Holt Fasner had an agenda and was nominally human.

The difference between Holt and LF is that LF was a master manipulator and had everything planned. Holt relied more on media, his mother, and Warden to further his plans and for information.

Ryzel wrote:

danlo wrote:Holt Fasner=Lord Foul

I always saw him as more like Kasreyn than Lord Foul. After all Holt Fasner had an agenda and was nominally human.

Your so right... After all... what was the one thing Kasreyn and Holt feared?

Death.

Ur-Vile wrote:The difference between Holt and LF is that LF was a master manipulator and had everything planned. Holt relied more on media, his mother, and Warden to further his plans and for information.

Holt is also a master manipulator. And I don't think that Lord Foul was as good as manipulator as some think...