Interesting extract from a longer /Film interview with in-demand director Roxann Dawson.

I appreciate how she speaks with respect for the shows of the new era.

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      the Honor Harrington series.

      These books are fun, but they’re not good. Bad prose, ridiculous characters, childish storylines. It would almost have to be approached like Starship Troopers and treated as a parody of the genre.

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        They get worse as they go on, like most Weber series. A few books in and they seem to always devolve to coredumps of exposition and backstory marginally dressed up as meetings. Even the tactics and action diminishes to the point where I’ve read more compelling write ups of tabletop war games.

        (And I’m someone who both war games and has read every single book in the Safehold series.)

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        @cygnus The earlier books have fantastic, well-thought out space combat scenes, fairly well informed by physics and orbital mechanics.

        Everything around those scenes is cringeworthy, and gets much worse as the series goes on. (Honor may be the most Mary Sue character ever.)

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          Haha yes, I mentioned the Mary Sue aspect in another reply before I saw yours.

          spoiler

          Especially the disturbing throuple where she eventually marries her old mentor and becomes basically a princess? Come on.

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          I read a lot of them, up to the most current one when I made it to that point. The first one was a fun age of sail romp, but they progressively got more… I guess I’d say “fairytale-like”? Honor has to be the most egregious Mary Sue I’ve seen in any franchise.

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      I’d like to see CJ Cherryh’s Alliance-Union universe brought to the screen.

      Downbelow Station seems made to become a streaming series.

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      I just started listening through the series and all I can think about is how epic the TV show would be.