I agree full heartedly Fantastopotamus. Maybe in the next Pendergast novel, Viola will get a chance to shine and do the "saving" instead of being
saved. She did that in the Book of the Dead in the Tomb of Senef, but I'm ready for her to be at Pendgergast's side solving a crime or mystery.
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Viola is going to have to show she at least has some working brain cells first. Seriously, what kind of worthy-match-for-Pendergast fancies there is an instant
intense "connection" between him and her--but flies several thousand miles in response to a letter her soulmate obviously didn't even
frickin' _write_?
 
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Posts: 592 (07/07/09 08:10 AM) |
flies several thousand miles in response to a letter
Yeah, I was flailing during that scene, shouting expletives and doing a bit of name-calling... 
Maybe in this next book, since it's set in Africa, Pendergast can attend one of Viola's digs. I can just see that man rolling around in the sand with a killer mummy, messing up his nice suit. 
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Posts: 153 (07/07/09 10:13 AM) |
I re-read the Tomb of Senef scene last night, and it seems to me that Viola STILL didn't show us she has guts. Nora was definitely the hero. But we can
still hope Viola displays some bravery in the next novel
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If she's even in the next novel... which I doubt. But they can't just continue to not explain her absence. At some point, we're going to need some
kind of explanation about where their relationship stands, even if it's in limbo in Pendergast's mind. More than one sentence. It's fine if the
bloom is off the rose for him (okay, obviously it's more than fine with me!) but even if that's how I'd want it to go, I'd still want a brief
passage or more on what did or did not transpire. Not just suddenly we never hear about Viola again, because that would be one heck of a loose thread to not
tie up somehow.
Crackers and camembert went flying.
Smithback grabbed crackers and cheese off his frilled
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Posts: 7500 (07/08/09 12:59 AM) |
"But they can't just continue to not explain her absence. "
Oh, yes, they most certainly _can_. If P&C never want to mention that silly wench ever again, that's their perogative. They are the authors--they can do whatever the heck they want...  
"At some point, we're going to need some kind of explanation about where their relationship stands, even if it's in limbo in Pendergast's mind." It never happened. Just like CEMETERY DANCE never happened. Just like MATRIX 2 & 3, the STAR WARS prequels, and PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN 2 & 3 never occurred. See? Easy.
"Not just suddenly we never hear about Viola again, because that would be one heck of a loose thread to not tie up somehow." Well, they could run a COC-like fake NYT-article endpaper about some minor British peer who disappeared while foolishly investigating a new artifact find down Stromboli-way... 
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Posts: 2368 (07/08/09 12:06 PM) |
lol, Deering. Personally, I'd be fine if maybe she decided he was too dangerous for her and too tied up in his work or something. I mean it's not like
we've never heard of one sided love in a relationship before--it happens. And he's the type who would move on instantly were the feelings not mutual.
That's what I think anyway. He wouldn't let it go if she died, but if she dumped him he'd get over it pretty fast, IMO.
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Yeah, I agree! She decided that, in spite of the fact that she blindly and stupidly walked into danger by following that letter, his family is too dangerous
for her tastes, and she doesn't like that look in Constance's eye, and thinks she's better off back on her island with... someone else.
(Perhaps she's nursing Diogenes back to health, which is the one thing that would make her reappearance very interesting indeed...) Now I like POTC 2 and 3 (mostly, especially 3), but I'm okay with the idea that Cemetery Dance never happened. For that one main reason... 
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Posts: 697 (07/17/09 02:12 AM) |
*reviving thread*
I'm hoping for an alien invasion. Possibly brain-infesting slugs or Pod People, although if Pendergast spends a lot of time fighting off otherworldly tentacles from another dimension I'll be really happy with that too. Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau. The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine. |
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Posts: 74 (07/17/09 05:30 AM) |
I would be disappointed if the common "white hunter"/"red lion" story comes up being "perndergasted". It is a told story and it
would bei most untypically for P/C to retell a tale.
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Posts: 697 (07/18/09 12:32 AM) |
I know, right? I don't think I've ever read a story about monsters who live in the sewers of New York City before, or stories about inbred mutant
serial killers out in the middle of nowhere. Heck, even "guy fakes monsters to scare people away from property he owns" is totally original.
Wait, I mean, they're three of the most-used plots in horror ever. (Okay, maybe not the fake monsters, since horror usually has real monsters, but I would like to cite every single Scooby-Doo episode ever for that one, plz.) Seriously, part of the insane charm of this series is how it takes these tropes--sewer monsters, mad scientists, demon possession, crazy evil families--and filters them through this procedural plot and these wonderful characters, and makes them seem like new. But it's still obvious that they're not all completely original ideas, come on. Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau. The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.
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Posts: 74 (07/18/09 05:19 AM) |
well, the red lion story IS acutally a true story in Africa.... monsters, zombiis etc... well.... aren't
That's what I meant with retelling a tale.
The others were- as you wrote- ideas.
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Posts: 2368 (07/18/09 02:25 PM) |
I'd like to read the white hunter/red lion story, for my part. But they will probably never write it. It's too telling. They like keeping Pendergast a
mystery... curse them... (lol, seriously *not* cursing you guys, in case you read this!!).
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