Erek is a conniving, sneaky, hypocritical little bastard and I love him. His stunt in #26 was a total "whoa, Erek, REALLY?" moment, and I think did a lot to humanize him. It does make his whole "WTF Jake" moment in #54 seem a bit off, too, since before his big character defining moments had led us to believe that he really was restrained by his programming and nature as an android rather than any moral compunctions against violence. In #10, he's one of the Chee most eager to rewrite their programming, and he can't handle the violence because he can't forget. He is not built to do horrible things because psychologically, he has no healing process. Restrained by his nature. In #26, he lies and manipulates the Anis into killing a race of children pretty much out of revenge. And shows no obvious remorse. So why is #54 Erek all "gee, Jake, I'm suddenly hardcore devoted to my pacifism instead of constantly working against it"?
However, if you want one example of Character Shafted by Ghostwriters, I think Erek might be the biggest example. In KA books, he shows up in #10, #15, #18, #20, #26, #32, Visser and the final arc. He gets character moments in almost half of those. In ghostwritten books, he shows up in #25, #27, #28, #29, #30, #45...and probably some others, but the point is that he serves as nothing but a tool in any of these books. Either he's delivering plot info or he's their generic hologram projector. No wonder the Anis got sick of him - his primary role was "hey guys, here's another dangerous mission, kbye".
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Date: 2010-10-11 09:06 pm (UTC)However, if you want one example of Character Shafted by Ghostwriters, I think Erek might be the biggest example. In KA books, he shows up in #10, #15, #18, #20, #26, #32, Visser and the final arc. He gets character moments in almost half of those. In ghostwritten books, he shows up in #25, #27, #28, #29, #30, #45...and probably some others, but the point is that he serves as nothing but a tool in any of these books. Either he's delivering plot info or he's their generic hologram projector. No wonder the Anis got sick of him - his primary role was "hey guys, here's another dangerous mission, kbye".