{"id":579,"date":"2008-01-28T23:30:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T23:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=579"},"modified":"2024-02-04T17:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T22:19:49","slug":"obrian_15spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/01\/obrian_15spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Brian, Patrick: (15) <cite>The Truelove<\/cite> (spoilers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPOILERS for <cite>The Truelove<\/cite><\/strong> (a.k.a. <cite>Clarissa Oakes<\/cite>); here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2008\/01\/obrian_15.php\">non-spoiler post<\/a> if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The artifice I referred to is Clarissa Oakes herself. I attribute her character to O&#8217;Brian wanting to really delve into the ship being torn apart by a woman, but not wanting to be misogynist. Which is admirable, but the aching care to construct Clarissa in a way that removes any reasonable possibility of blame to her&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. it&#8217;s so careful that I found it artificial and distracting. I&#8217;m not sure whether it&#8217;s cause or effect, but I also had a very hard time believing in Clarissa as a character; she felt very piecemeal, not an organic whole as O&#8217;Brian&#8217;s major secondary characters usually do.<\/p>\n<p>(The speech I thought Tull didn&#8217;t do justice to, by the way, was her backstory dump to Maturin on the island. Insufficiently toneless.)<\/p>\n<p>The battle on Moahu felt like an afterthought, a convenient way to get Clarissa off the ship and to get Jack laid. And I can&#8217;t think of anything else to say about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOILERS for The Truelove (a.k.a. Clarissa Oakes); here&#8217;s the non-spoiler post if you got here by mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,48,4],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aubrey-maturin","category-books","category-historical","tag-obrian-patrick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}