Yeah, I re-read it and I just cannot shake the feeling that the fridging was not originally intended to happen in that arc - it feels more like it was shoehorned in because they were cancelling the book. Next to everything else, it was really contrived and stiff and rushed. (And if Traci was rounding up stragglers - where the hell was she? Nadia was definitely a straggler!)
I wonder now if Hector was really who they had in mind for the Black Beetle, or if it came down to the wire and they went, "Hell, this is the only way we can finish that thread off befor the series ends, isn't it? At least without getting killed by the readers."
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Date: 2009-03-07 01:36 pm (UTC)I wonder now if Hector was really who they had in mind for the Black Beetle, or if it came down to the wire and they went, "Hell, this is the only way we can finish that thread off befor the series ends, isn't it? At least without getting killed by the readers."