persephone_kore

Watson kind of irritates me, to tell the truth. She simplifies these things just a little bit too much. Things are just a little too black and white in her books. She has some great ideas and characters, but she doesn't do as much with them as she should. Lorian Nodd's a great example of this. I mean, there he is, someone with enough charisma and personal presence to be able to talk Dooku into doing something like this, and yet what does the Order do? Chuck him out on his ear. They don't try to help him or turn him back or convince him of his wrong. They just get rid of him. And there's not enough there to really explain why Dooku was friends with him or why Lorian felt the need to have the Sith Holocron in the first place. It's all just a little bit too cut and dry. Which I suppose actually leaves a lot of wriggle room for others wanting to write about the same characters, but still - ! *Frowns slightly* It mostly all just left me wanting to know more about Lorian as a person and his motivations, and about just how deeply that betrayal scarred Dooku, as it seems to me he was rather more distant from most of the other Jedi afterwards than he might otherwise have been.