I didn't find the second series so much "bad" as disappointing. I'm glad you enjoyed them -- lord knows I've enjoyed books and movies that other people gave me funny looks for. :)
The thing I mostly didn't like about the books was that....in the first series, the Courts of Chaos were something that were mentioned, but never actually seen. It was a mysterious, hellish place Way Over There, and we were free to imagine it being as outlandish and freaky and weird as we could devise.
Along come the second series, and it turns out to be...pretty much another squabbling set of competing fiefdoms, more *like* Amber than its antithesis. And I think that's what I found disappointing. It would be like a Tolkien sequel set in Mordor, where we found out Sauron is really just an ambitious bureaucrat with PR problems.
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Date: 2007-08-15 10:59 am (UTC)The thing I mostly didn't like about the books was that....in the first series, the Courts of Chaos were something that were mentioned, but never actually seen. It was a mysterious, hellish place Way Over There, and we were free to imagine it being as outlandish and freaky and weird as we could devise.
Along come the second series, and it turns out to be...pretty much another squabbling set of competing fiefdoms, more *like* Amber than its antithesis. And I think that's what I found disappointing. It would be like a Tolkien sequel set in Mordor, where we found out Sauron is really just an ambitious bureaucrat with PR problems.