Talk:Across the Void/@comment-37396178-20190514194735

Blech. I have mixed feelings on AtV. I liked the concept of a luxury cruise liner with a captain trying to be dutiful in the midst of an inter-galactic civil war. The MC/Eos/Pax dynamic was enjoyable and lent itself to some drama. It was imaginative and had potential, but the execution left me wanting.

There were far too many characters for me to keep track of: wealthy out-of-touch passengers; a bartender romantically involved with a robot; more overlapping LIs than I could keep track of; planets I couldn't keep straight. It was a complicated mess.

Clearly, project was scrapped early on in AtV. The extended mid-story break provided an opportunity to drop a number of sub-plots and transition to an action-adventure story. The ending was far too abrupt and the writers would have done well to include an epilogue. Even though I was ready for AtV to be over, I am actually hoping (against hope) for an AtV sequel to get some resolution on things.