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[QUOTE=Keltest;22264961]Doesn't seem that odd to me. He's working with an alpha script, he probably hasn't even seen the final product to know where it diverges. He probably had a list of "these events need to happen, fill in the gaps however you like."[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that's a fair point, actually. If you have an alpha script and don't know which of these events are going to end up being important, the fill-in-the-blanks writing style is probably your only option. (Athans still needed to pay more attention to context, mind.)

I'd love to get my hands on that alpha script. Maybe a daring nighttime raid on the archives of the publisher can be my next project.

[QUOTE=Nerd-o-rama;22267048]Hi I'm a lurker who finally feels like chiming in: the only other place I've seen something like that happen is in another favorite sporking target of mine, [I]Left Behind[/I] by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Without going into anything that violates rules, let's just say they got their major event outline from a different work and aren't [I]terrific[/I] at tying things together, instead just moving from plot point to plot point in order because that's how the story's supposed to go. I suppose they're both adaptations, in a way, so the similarity makes sense, and supposedly each LB novel was written in about the same amount of time that Athans had to create his...work.[/QUOTE]

Hey there, welcome to the thread. :smallbiggrin:

I definitely know what you mean. That seems to be a common criticism of Left Behind and other novels in its, err, genre. One of the perils of fill-in-the-blanks writing, I suppose; you know that C happens after B which happens after A, but you forget to make sure that the A -> B -> C progression actually makes sense in-universe.