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lannamichaels's anti-Miles Vorkosigan rant here:
lannamichaels.livejournal.com/704066.html
There's one thing in there I agree wholeheartedly with (no pictures of Nikki on your holo cube, Miles? Not cool), but mostly I don't, and some of it seems to stem from what I see as actual misreadings of the text (Ekaterin was not trying to put the brakes on her and Miles' relationship at the end of A Civil Campaign, she was using the threat of delaying the wedding in order to achieve a small wedding. Now why Cordelia of all people advised her to go with manipulation instead of honesty is another question).
I adore Miles, I always have, and I don't think he's actually gotten less adorable in the later books. And I do like the later books, but I think in some ways the series would have been stronger if it had ended after Memory.
The real problem as I see it, is that you can have your characters live happily ever after, or you can keep writing stories about them. Pick one.
Also, I've seen the complaint before about how does Ekaterin possibly do all the work she's described as doing in Cryoburn, and while she's certainly a hard-working lady, what a lot of people seem to be missing is that she's an aristocrat. She's not actually washing the dishes and doing the shopping and preparing the meals and balancing the checkbooks and changing the diapers herself--she has Staff.
lannamichaels's anti-Miles Vorkosigan rant here:lannamichaels.livejournal.com/704066.html
There's one thing in there I agree wholeheartedly with (no pictures of Nikki on your holo cube, Miles? Not cool), but mostly I don't, and some of it seems to stem from what I see as actual misreadings of the text (Ekaterin was not trying to put the brakes on her and Miles' relationship at the end of A Civil Campaign, she was using the threat of delaying the wedding in order to achieve a small wedding. Now why Cordelia of all people advised her to go with manipulation instead of honesty is another question).
I adore Miles, I always have, and I don't think he's actually gotten less adorable in the later books. And I do like the later books, but I think in some ways the series would have been stronger if it had ended after Memory.
The real problem as I see it, is that you can have your characters live happily ever after, or you can keep writing stories about them. Pick one.
Also, I've seen the complaint before about how does Ekaterin possibly do all the work she's described as doing in Cryoburn, and while she's certainly a hard-working lady, what a lot of people seem to be missing is that she's an aristocrat. She's not actually washing the dishes and doing the shopping and preparing the meals and balancing the checkbooks and changing the diapers herself--she has Staff.
