I remember writing you about trilogies earlier, got ya thinkin eh?

Here’s hoping you make it hard to pick between 2 and 3 like Empire and Jedi (less Ewoks would have made Jedi better but the rest worked pretty well)

I think Empire still has it because of that

Looking forward to your future installments

The first Matrix film was golden but the rest of them just didn’t do it for me. Granted, they told the story but somehow left a hollow feeling unlike the first movie that really made me wonder about all the turns and parallel realities.

Still, there is this one trilogy that keeps better from 1-3, namely Bourne trilogy. I like all of them and while each movie told more about the overall story arch they put up more speed to each sequel that I personally liked.

I assigned an 1-3 ranking for where each movie fell per Dan’s ranking and then added the result for each. Ties were assigned the highest score of the tied result. 1st movie got a total of 51 points. 2nd, 53 and 3rd an abysmal 28 points.

@Tia: yeah, book twos are always the big challenge. Can’t start anything major, can’t end anything major. I’ll be curious to see if you think BURNING SKIES evades that trap. : ) But I assure you it all ends with book three, I’m not into endless N+1 series either!

@Meesh: I wonder which is better, Bruce Willis’ band or Keanu Reeves’ band?

I have heard it said (though now I can’t remember where) that if someone tells you they liked Alien better than the sequal Aliens that is
“probably someone worth knowing.” As a statistical test, it’s pretty specific, though not all that sensitive, but it has worked for me.

hysterical.

In books–for me–the second most often is a disappointment, but the third novel often redeems any shortcomings of the second novel. Therefore, even when I didn’t like a second novel, I will usually give the third novel a chance. This is ASSUMING that the series is a trilogy, and not one of those neverending series.