Rant about tie-in novel

[karmyn75]

TV tie-in/profic novels are a crapshoot at best. At worst, they read like they were written by crack-addled pot smoking retarded monkeys who have never even heard of the fandom. At best they are like finding a lost episode

Comments

[brihana25]

Yeah, he made it to page 62 before he totally screwed up what they look like, so he made it much further than most tie-in novelists do.

And I'm right there with you on the eye color thing; it's a major, massive mistake that pro writers should not be making. (But don't tell them that, because they'll show up at your LJ and yell at you about why it's your fault for being so sensitive and not theirs for screwing up.)

And it really doesn't make the mistake in Nevermore any better, but he does make up for it in Bone Key, with what has to be the most self-deprecating sense of humor about a screw up that I've ever seen a pro author (or any author, really) have. I mean, he really takes the piss out of himself for that mistake.

Plus, Bone Key's just the better of the two books, IMO. Witch's Canyon is without a doubt the best (and that book's entire existence was made impossible by canon before it came out), but Bone Key, I think, is great. I wanna see Dean argue with some of the people he argued with in that book.

[fairest1]

Heh. I remember when I was a wee YXP and came across the X-Files tie-in novels. I was in fourth grade and even then I was wondering why Mulder and Scully were acting OOC and working in other departments for no apparent reason.

[elliemurasaki]

No glaring mistakes in Witch's Canyon? Internal evidence from it and Nevermore strongly suggest that Witch's Canyon follows directly upon Nevermore, do not pass go or collect $200 or stop too long for gas. Nevermore has an opening note saying it, and by extension Witch's Canyon, takes place between Crossroad Blues and Croatoan. Witch's Canyon opens with the boys at the Grand Canyon. Which Croatoan says and Ghostfacers confirms the boys have never been to.

Also the boys were using their real names in Witch's Canyon, and I don't know how many people heard those names but there were certainly lots and lots of people who saw both them and crazy shit in action, and Henriksen was looking for them probably since Usual Suspects and was seen at the end of Nevermore, and there really ought to have been some acknowledgment of the fact that Henriksen would have heard of this.

[karmyn75]

I read Witch's Canyon first so I was never sure exactly when it took place other than it was winter. But a real winter is something I don't really know much about being as I'm from East Texas.
But yeah, the Grand Canyon thing did confuse me.
But it didn't have the simple mistakes that Nevermore did.

[elliemurasaki]

Personally I'd call "directly contradicting something we heard the boys say" a bigger mistake than "picking the wrong eye color", especially since I can never tell what colors their eyes are anyway.

[full_metal_ox]

Not being an SPN fan, I've never read the novels in question; I'll note, though, that if published fiction is going to regard Dean as short simply because Sam is tall, how surprising can it be that fanwriters persist in doing the same?

[duowolf]

See I'm the other way around I disliked Witch's Canyon and liked Nevermore. I can't say I actully can rememeber what color the characters eyes are anyway so I wouldn't have noticed that mistake anyways.