Thread:Balthus Dire/@comment-24828288-20160119154537/@comment-24828288-20160119171921

Hello again

It's good to hear from another Power of Five fan because aside from its massive success it is not much talked about on the Net and thus I rarely hear people speak of it. I actually made an entire Chronology for the whole series: http://thepoweroffive.wikia.com/wiki/Chronology and, as a side note, I am actually a follower of Anthony Horowitz on Twitter, meaning he has read the articles in The Power of Five villains Category and he has actually congratulated me for writing them.

(I actually asked Horowitz if Matt was meant to be Jesus but he neither affirmed or denied it.)

Was there one of those interdimensional church doors in Paris? I believe there was. Its a shame not much of the series happened in France, aside from a few mentions. But then I guess Matt kind of covered the whole of Europe in his character.

I myself have actually written two whole series of books rather similar to The Power of Five. The first on is a dark fantasy-horror and the other series, a prequel, is very much about politics and stuff. I wonder if there will ever be a movie of The Power of Five? If so I hope they do it right, and not totally rewrite it as they seem to do with movies now (look at World War Z). I can't believe there's 46 villains in The Power of Five, which seems like an awful lot. But I guess Horowitz kept it darker than the Pentagram series.

BTW, which of the Five is your favourite? I would say mine are Pedro and Scott. They just have the most personality and I felt like I could really understand them. Scarlett kind of started off as a spoiled brat but then she redeemed herself during her struggle in Hong Kong. But don't get me wrong she was kind of funny and likeable. Matt seems to be too "pure" for me which seems kind of unnatural in that he thinks everything has to happen the way it is. There's nothing wrong with a belief in pre-determinism but Matt seems to never make any choices of his until the last book. I actually prefered Matt in Oblivion to the Matt in the other four books. Well, in Evil Star he was likeable. Jamie on the other hand was unbelievably rude to Alicia but I guess that was understandable because he was confused and scared. But he did make it up in the end. I guess he's the Indiana Jones of the Five, a strong character who can never be moved.

Of the ending of Oblivion, I thought it kind of funny how humanity put so much effort into forming the World Army and then ran away at the first battle. If they'd all stayed to help the Five win it would have seemed more enjoyable, but maybe Five against millions of evil forces seems more dramatic.

With Scarlett in the tow, the whole series kind of reminded me of Mulan. You know the Chinese girl who joins the Imperial Army to fight off the Huns? All her army flee at the last minute so there's like five of her and thousands of Huns.