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kalinaraHave you ever seen the tv show "Midsomer Murders"? It's one of those British detective shows set in the countryside. It's full of pleasant, ordinary people investigating tawdry crime. Lots of fun. But despite the occasionally risque subject matter, there's almost nothing by way of sex appeal.
Except one time. There is ONE episode, where they decide to send Ben Jones (Interchangeable bland sidekick #3, the actually intelligent one) undercover in a cult. And all of a sudden, things get surprisingly sexy. A change of hairstyle, an actually flattering wardrobe, and the guy turns from bland nobody into pretty fucking hot. (Basically, they just let the actually attractive actor look like himself for once.) ON TOP OF THAT, the cult is full of sexy invitations, and a full out nude (back only) shower scene...
It's like the showrunner suddenly ran across the concept of "fan service" and said "Oh, we should do that", shoved ten years of missed opportunity into ONE EPISODE, and then went back to normal right after that.
That's basically what happened last chapter. Ms. Wurts apparently realized that the Arithon/Elaira ship was nothing more than a string and a prayer anchored by one scene about 1200 pages ago and decided to make up for that by shoving all the ridiculous drama and sexual tension you can imagine into one chapter and there you go.
The weird thing is...it was actually somewhat effective. But afterward, I almost needed a cigarette.
By the way, we've also made it to the penultimate chapter set of the book! Go us!
( I don't know what to expect here, but I bet it's not going to be more inappropriately sexy healing rituals...too bad. )
Except one time. There is ONE episode, where they decide to send Ben Jones (Interchangeable bland sidekick #3, the actually intelligent one) undercover in a cult. And all of a sudden, things get surprisingly sexy. A change of hairstyle, an actually flattering wardrobe, and the guy turns from bland nobody into pretty fucking hot. (Basically, they just let the actually attractive actor look like himself for once.) ON TOP OF THAT, the cult is full of sexy invitations, and a full out nude (back only) shower scene...
It's like the showrunner suddenly ran across the concept of "fan service" and said "Oh, we should do that", shoved ten years of missed opportunity into ONE EPISODE, and then went back to normal right after that.
That's basically what happened last chapter. Ms. Wurts apparently realized that the Arithon/Elaira ship was nothing more than a string and a prayer anchored by one scene about 1200 pages ago and decided to make up for that by shoving all the ridiculous drama and sexual tension you can imagine into one chapter and there you go.
The weird thing is...it was actually somewhat effective. But afterward, I almost needed a cigarette.
By the way, we've also made it to the penultimate chapter set of the book! Go us!
( I don't know what to expect here, but I bet it's not going to be more inappropriately sexy healing rituals...too bad. )