Maggers Wrote:SPOILERS..........................
I got a kick out of that. If you read back over this thread, you'll see that not a few of us saw a resemblance to NIGHTWORLD, both in the things in the mist and the reason for the mist, i.e., a rent in the fabric of reality that allowed Otherness-like beings to come into our world. Cheesy is not a word I'd use to describe NIGHTWORLD, but, hey, that's what makes this board go 'round.
Maybe I should've been more specific; I love the idea of alternate realities and holes connecting one world to another. After all, some of my favorite books revolve around that theme, Jack novels included.
What I thought was cheesy was the execution of introducing the source of the mist: the soldier sniveling and pointing a finger and saying, "the scientists did it, they opened a portal into another world". Just having a character state it outright like that was really corny to me. I wish they had either built on that more, and made it more real to the audience, or just never said it at all, but stayed with the subtle hints. They were doing enough with the whispers of the government project and the tanks whizzing by in the beginning.
(Edit: that's why I like how the Otherness is explained in Jack's world. Whenever it first comes up in any novel, FPW's always included an explanation geared especially towards the skeptic or starting reader, or even had a skeptical character, but then draws the skeptic character/reader into the reality of the Otherness through the plot. I think that's how it should've been done.)
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