Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to Shejidan. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Foreigner Series; Favorite Moments (beware spoilers!)
Topic Started: Feb 5 2008, 08:21 PM (6,190 Views)
Gent
Member Avatar
Placer of Wagers
Citizen of the Association
With #10 on the horizon, I have been reading the Foreigner series again. I've realized that I have cherished moments in the series. Typically they are "bonding moments". I'll list a few of mine, but I'd like to hear yours!

I have to paraphrase. I just finished "Invader", but the novel is at home. I've been banished while my flooring company tries to repair their muffed installation. Grrr.

Moment #1 - Bren asks the Atageini maids what they thought of his televised speech to the government regarding the import of the returning ship. They are startled, then pleased by his request for their opinion. After giving it, they feel the need to congratulate him, and wish him well. One even pronounces that they "...hold by his side." - A powerful statement from an Atevi, especially one from a difficult household.

Moment #2 - Banichi appears to assist Bren back to his room after talking with the ship for the first time. Bren foolishly demands in public to know where he has been. Banichi replies that he needed to sleep. Bren, realizing his gaff, commetns that he "was never really certain that (Banichi) did such a thing.". This illicits amusement from Banichi, and may be the first time such a thing occurs. Now I have to go re-read the first novel. I obviously went too quickly.
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
Felicitous Sk8er
Member Avatar
Ice Queen Assassin
Admin
Nadiin, one is happily anticipating the wonderful posts that will surely grace this thread. However, one does not wish to lure in the unwary.

Therefore -- beware of spoilers! I have also amended this caution to the sub-title, to warn the unwitting. :t


*wondering how to cull out favorite moments down to a reasonable number in order to avoid hogging bandwidth* :baji
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
Gent
Member Avatar
Placer of Wagers
Citizen of the Association
D'oh. Of course. I had assumed that tout le monde had read everything already. Mea Culpa.
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
Neco the Nightwraith
Member Avatar
Living the Right Life
Citizen of the Association
I found Bren's cast removing incident in Invader to be very highly amusing, what with him wanting it *off* and Jago taking everything in stride and oh so delicately slicing away the bandages. It was funny. :D
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
Felicitous Sk8er
Member Avatar
Ice Queen Assassin
Admin
One word: bathtubs! :bath

"Better to be gossiped about," Jago said, sinking back, "than taken for the furniture, nandi." :lol:


*opening scene, Pretender (#8)
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
pence

Citizen of the Association
The comment by the maids also shows how the humans can confuse the atevi sense of manchi, and start wars.
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
Gent
Member Avatar
Placer of Wagers
Citizen of the Association
...Cenedi avoiding Bren's eyes and mentioning that "certain Guild members would sue for personal contracts if anything untoward ever happened to Bren."

:shoot:
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
Kokipy

Citizen of the Association
I liked Bren's speech to the aerospace workers from high in the scaffolding around the first shuttle. I don't remember which book. But he inspired himself to new heights and highly motivated everyone around him.
I also adore his figuring out the language for whats his name, the alien on the station. I loved when he figured out that new clothes were needed and obtained tailor made suitable clothing of proper cut and color.
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
Resa
Member Avatar
Drawer of Stuff
Citizen of the Association
My, this thread is giving me warm fuzzies!

There are so many favorite moments, and it's lovely to be reminded about ones that had slipped my mind. Like that moment with Cenedi. :)

Here's a few that come first to my mind right now, having just finished a read through a few months ago.

1. After Tabini regains his place, and after Bren threw Tabini to the ground assuming that the gunman had meant Tabini and not himself. That moment in the hallway when the lords and ladies descend upon him, as he says, "like at atevi family reunion". All of them reaching out to touch his shoulder or arm, and for a moment, bringing him into their circle.

2. Cajieri on the bus ride. One moment all bubbly about wanting Bren to sit by him and his new associates. And later, falling asleep against his shoulder. It spoke a lot of Bren's impact and place in Cajieri's world.

3. A bath scene -- where Bren ducks under the water and traverses the entire circumference of the tub to wash off the soap. And when he pops up, Banichi says, "oh good, you have not drowned." That just tickled me. :)

4. Algini cleaning Bren's gun on the bus, and their talk about a certain supposed Guild Master and that unfortunate incident with the bomb. Also regarding this -- one does hope that in a future book, Algini will surprise Bren with that gun holster he told Bren that he needed.

:inlove: :salad:
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
Chia

Citizen of the Association
Favorites.....

"One is not offended" as Jago leaves the room at Tabien after Bren tries to explain his feelings towards her in Invader. One also remembers a statement in there about not waiting too long either. :atwink

One also gains amusement from trying to picture 'Gini-ji in a Hawiian print shirt which Bren brings to the station as a going away present before heading off into the depths of space.
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
BeulahBelle
Icewine and Opals
Citizen of the Association
There are many, but these are the first that come to mind:

The "first time" scene, in a tent in the midst of a howling rainstorm. Very tender and very sensual.

The scene on the plane after the shootout at the airport, Cenedi has been injured, Bren has been injured, everyone is done in, and Jago tells Bren that they know he is "of great good will".

The idea of spider plants growing and thriving in the bare plastic and metal surrounds of a spaceship.

The floating bubble meal that Ilsidi hosted on the ship.

Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
griffinmoon
Member Avatar
Ranger
Citizen of the Association
Gent nadi:
Quote:
 
"certain Guild members would sue for personal contracts if anything untoward ever happened to Bren."


Wha'? Whar'd thet happen?!?!
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
Felicitous Sk8er
Member Avatar
Ice Queen Assassin
Admin
Quote:
 
The "first time" scene, in a tent in the midst of a howling rainstorm. Very tender and very sensual.


Oh yes! Herself teased us for so very long about it, that the emotional pay-off was very great indeed! :wub:
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
Busifer

Citizen of the Association
Oh, there are lots of them!
Of course, that scene in the tent. The build-up to that was long and sloooow, but rewarding. Before that, both the scene at Taiben when he fumbles to say what he feel and that one when Uncle comes to inspect the lilies and Bren despite the big politics mostly thinks of Jago - he even reflects on her looking beautiful in her dress uniform. We don't get much of that kind of thoughts anywhere else in the books so I guess he doesn't think of her in that infatuated way later on.

*skips off to get myself a cup of coffee, my brain don't function that well on grey mornings like this...*

And, oh, I almost forgot - the green pizza, when Bren has no idea it IS a pizza and the staff almost despairs. And then rumour starts going and pizza slices finds their way over to both Ilisidi and Tabini.

And when they have to hide the illicit tomato sauce under cooks bed, Bren getting visions of how Uncle will inspect the closets getting buried in avalanches of contraband!

Then there's a lot of nice moments that I just can't seem to remember in early morning brain-fuzziness. But there's that scene in Destroyer where Jago asks if Barb is a very common name and Bren have to try to explain things, ending with his assurance that Jago 'need not wonder', after which she had to clear her throat and we get the definite impression that she's jealous.

And then of course the bathtub at Tirnamardi, in Pretender, as already mentioned, and afterwards when Bren do Jago's braid with her sitting on the floor, scandalising staff. Or at least that's how I remember it.
Also all the guys getting in (and out of) that tub later *blushes*

Algini adressing Bren as 'aiji-ma' was also quite a moment.
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
Gent
Member Avatar
Placer of Wagers
Citizen of the Association
griffinmoon,Feb 5 2008
09:18 PM

Wha'? Whar'd thet happen?!?!

Invader (DAW books 1995 page 114):

Cenedi shrugged, avoiding his eyes. "My profession allows no debts, nand Paidhi..."

then, later on the page...

"But if the paidhi were to come to grief in Shejidan not by the Dowager's express order, certain of the Guild would sue to take personal contract."


Not exactly a linear flow of thought, but one has to read between the lines with Atevi sometimes. :atwink


edit: darnit, I'm not getting my updates from this topic for some reason... grrr.
Offline Profile Quote this post Go to Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · The Cherryh Grove · Next Topic »
Add Reply