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A review by sarahrara
The Cutting Room The Complete Season by Edward W. Robertson
3.0
Interesting, but flawed and kind of a cliffhanger ending.
I think it's important to know going into this that it doesn't have a proper ending. At first I thought it was 6 semi-disconnected stories about the Cutting Room, but they all tie in, and then it's quite unsatisfying to not know how it ends.
I like the concept, and I enjoyed the storytelling, but there were a few things that didn't really add up. Like what the pods can and cannot do - the limitations seem a bit arbitrary.
I would maybe also have liked a bit more variety in where they went, and differences to our real world. What interests me about the many-worlds interpretation is how one deviation can potentially lead to an entirely different future. It would have been interesting to expand on that and maybe stretch it a bit further.
You also don't really get to know the characters, so though the ending is unsatisfying I don't care enough about the characters or what happens to them to be terribly interested in a sequel.
All in all this was an OK read for me. Entertaining, but not much more than that.
I think it's important to know going into this that it doesn't have a proper ending. At first I thought it was 6 semi-disconnected stories about the Cutting Room, but they all tie in, and then it's quite unsatisfying to not know how it ends.
I like the concept, and I enjoyed the storytelling, but there were a few things that didn't really add up. Like what the pods can and cannot do - the limitations seem a bit arbitrary.
I would maybe also have liked a bit more variety in where they went, and differences to our real world. What interests me about the many-worlds interpretation is how one deviation can potentially lead to an entirely different future. It would have been interesting to expand on that and maybe stretch it a bit further.
You also don't really get to know the characters, so though the ending is unsatisfying I don't care enough about the characters or what happens to them to be terribly interested in a sequel.
All in all this was an OK read for me. Entertaining, but not much more than that.