The basic formula for writing good fiction is to create interesting, compelling characters and torture them for 300 pages. How they react tells you something about them and makes it enjoyable. Maybe they rise, maybe they fall.
The Rings of Akhaten completely violates this principle.
1. The new characters created for this story are neither interesting nor compelling. The only character from this story with much of any english lines at all is the little girl, and she was not made compelling by them, imo. The antagonist was a blob with no speaking lines.
2. I didn't feel that a good job was done of conveying the threat to the audience.
As a result, you wound up a story filled with forgettable characters facing a boring threat.
The story didn't work.
The Rings of Akhaten completely violates this principle.
1. The new characters created for this story are neither interesting nor compelling. The only character from this story with much of any english lines at all is the little girl, and she was not made compelling by them, imo. The antagonist was a blob with no speaking lines.
2. I didn't feel that a good job was done of conveying the threat to the audience.
As a result, you wound up a story filled with forgettable characters facing a boring threat.
The story didn't work.
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