Kevin's Watch

I was looking at the Watch posting statistics briefly, and we had our biggest spike in new members when SRD spammed the Watch in the acknowledgments section of Fatal Revenant. There seems to be a small jump in activity after AATE, but not anything like FR.

Perhaps we can get SRD to do something bigger for The Last Dark? Perhaps dedicate the book to us?

-jay

Whoa SRD put thw Watch in the acknowledgements? All versions or just US? Man I need a copy of FR.

kevinswatch wrote:Perhaps we can get SRD to do something bigger for The Last Dark? Perhaps dedicate the book to us?

-jay

Damn good idea. It's our last chance afterall.

Romeo!!?



--A

On a related note ... is it just my impression, or did the novel discussion die down a lot faster for AATE than FR?

Zarathustra wrote:On a related note ... is it just my impression, or did the novel discussion die down a lot faster for AATE than FR?

No, I've said the same thing before.
The oddest thing is that there where quite a few newbies that were posting about AATE but many of the regular posters just disappeared.
I mean, they just never posted.

Zarathustra wrote:On a related note ... is it just my impression, or did the novel discussion die down a lot faster for AATE than FR?

I don't remember a lot of FR discussion, but you may be right. The reason being, a lot of stuff was answered in AATE, there isn't nearly as much stuff to speculate about. Seriously, after reading FR, I was depressed that it would be three more years until AATE, but after reading AATE, I was fulfilled, satisfied.

I'm still on Chapter 12 of Part 1.

-jay

kevinswatch wrote:I'm still on Chapter 12 of Part 1.

-jay

*After he finishes AATE*
Jay: Hey, guys! I just finished, and I thought it was fantasitic!

The rest of us: That's great, Jay, but we finished the Last Dark two years ago.

Zarathustra wrote:On a related note ... is it just my impression, or did the novel discussion die down a lot faster for AATE than FR?

Guilty as charged. On the other hand this one I actually got when it was published. FR was stronger but AATE was still loads better than ROTE (which I almost didn't buy because, seriously how can there be anther Thomas Covenant book? Must be something else that just looks like a chronicle, maybe another one of those 'same world (haa haa) new author)

But it probably has nothing to do with the books. Just a different me.

So lay it on us? what are the 10 new subjects we should discuss today?

High Lord Tolkien wrote:The oddest thing is that there where quite a few newbies that were posting about AATE but many of the regular posters just disappeared.
I mean, they just never posted.

Yeah, I've noticed a few who never posted. And there seemed to be a much more divided fanbase this time, so perhaps the tone of the discussions turned off some people. It's ironic, because this book was better than Runes. It seemed that a lot more people were expressing their disappointment over Runes without a corresponding backlash from those who really loved it. In fact, I don't remember anyone really loving it, the way some seem to love this one. On the other hand, even though Runes was worse, I don't remember hating the bad parts nearly as much as this one (mainly because they were shorter). So the experience for this book is a lot more polarizing. Maybe that's the explanation right there. But an argument could be made that a polarizing book is precisely the one you'd expect to produce the most discussion. I don't know. I'm confused. I wonder what Wayfriend thought of it.

shadowbinding shoe wrote:So lay it on us? what are the 10 new subjects we should discuss today?

I don't have the answers, man. Just questions.

Zarathustra wrote:

High Lord Tolkien wrote:The oddest thing is that there where quite a few newbies that were posting about AATE but many of the regular posters just disappeared.
I mean, they just never posted.

Yeah, I've noticed a few who never posted. And there seemed to be a much more divided fanbase this time, so perhaps the tone of the discussions turned off some people.

That might be it.
The biggest thread in the AATE was for the most part stupid bickering, imo.
But it never went out of bounds so I didn't do anything.
But looking at it I can't see much for any newbies wanting to jump in on.

I think it has to do with the so many posters.

There is nothing left really to discuss.

Whenever I look at an AATE topic, there is nothing much left for me to say, other than that I either agree with the original post, or I agree with one of the rebuttals.