Frandszk, or Franz for short.
I like Seafort! A lot! I hope I can convince more people to get into it.
Three years ago, I read David Feintuch's Rodrigo of Caledon Saga. I had mixed feelings. I reread it twice the following year, while desperately searching for Seafort at libraries and second hand book stores, since I had decided I really did like Feintuch's writing and Seafort's genre seemed even more up my alley. I could only find the 6th book for a while, but later that year, I found it as an e-book in the NYPL collection. I read the first four books in a mildly deranged manner in December, 2023, took a several month break, and then finished the series in the following spring. It has not left my mind since.
Have you bought the books? Which editions? Yes! After reading the series in e-book form, I bought some second hand copies online. I later found a couple of the holographic editions at a bookstore, and have the first books of the German and Japanese translation.
If you have ever talked to me for more than 10 minutes, you know I recommend it incessantly.
I usually bring up the parts I think they'd be most interested in... after this fails, I just talk about what I like for months on end. My success rate was low for a while, but it's been getting higher recently.
You're on it now... I'm still working on it, but I hope it can be a kind of general page with lots of information about the series and the history of the fandom.
The #1 Seafort Fan in this day and age. Very dedicated to anything about it... maybe a little desperate.
I like Patriarch's Hope the best I think (only the first half... the end is too sad...)! Don't make reread Children of Hope again, I can't do it...
Seafort is obviously the classic, but I also like P.T. a lot... Randy makes me feel too many emotions, Rob just makes me feel anger.
Yes! Could I have ever gotten this far if I didn't..?
He's dedicated to his ideals! He always tries to do what's best! This does not always mean he does what is actually best! I wish he could accept, if not understand, that his friends love him.
I feel like I basically answered this for the last question... Good points: principled, doesn't give up, and wants to protect the people who are important to him. Bad points: never talks his plans through with anyone else, and the various emotional problems that I'm going to blame on his upbringing.
When he breaks his oath near the end of Challenger's Hope. In my memory they get back to normal space almost immediately after that, but apparently it's several days... still sad, though.
He does a lot of cool things, but I still think his first fight with Vax was the best. Never give up!
In Patriarch's Hope when he starts telling Arlene that there's a woman he's in love with... You're not cool! You're not slick! I was really worried that you were going to ruin your third marriage!
When he's dragging himself around in the last part of Patriarch's Hope... I don't like rereading that...
"I'm damned, and have no one but myself to blame. Please, Vax. Be with me." Was that last part necessary?!? At least Vax sticks to his decision and isn't tempted by whatever Seafort was going for there.
I wasn't sure about this one at first, but one friend who's read a few of the books likes to quote, "You made your bed. Now sleep in it," very frequently.
More people like you than you think. You're really not that awful. Tell Tolliver you love him.
It's definitely that scene in Patriarch's Hope when Seafort finally talks to P.T. again and then asks about Jared... I was reading this, really worried that Jared would have died in the timeskip between the books, but instead he and P.T. are in a relationship?!?!? Really?!?!?
This one is really only funny in retrospect but I like to think about what David Feintuch meant by having Nick, in the beginning of the first book, compare the lasers on the ships to male nipples "because they're both useless" and then go on to introduce a great many uses for those ship lasers anyway. Which could mean anything.
Tad Anselm. Nick Seafort. Hotel room. Patriarch's Hope. Tad is emabarrassing in general but that was a real low point for him. Do nooooot vomit on my secretary general, bro!
When Tolliver reappears at the end of Patriarch's Hope. I'd been waiting for him!
In Midshipman's Hope, the water balloon scene where he gets to join in even though he's the captain now. Everything wasn't that bad back then.
When I met Randy and Kevin for the first time... At that point, it's comforting to see the same type of character done one last time.
The first chapter of Patriarch's Hope is so boring... I tried reading it before I found the other books and couldn't keep going, but even after reading what lead up to it, it was still boring! It's kind of cute, though, because Seafort never gets to be boring, so it's like a break for everyone.
When we finally learn that Jason is dead in the third book. I would have thought that higher priority information than his sexual orientation, but what do I know.
When Tolliver spits on Nick in the finale of Fisherman's Hope and Nick thinks "I wished he would do it again".... What....
Jared's death... surely we could have still saved him...
Jared Tenere.
He's so pathetic... Teenager convinced that everyone hates him and he's right! I feel really bad for him, especially with how all the adults reacted to him running away. I'm glad it seemed like he was doing better and that he got to be with P.T.
Happy. Alive. Married. A father..?
Since he has a pilot's license (???) maybe he can fly me around.
"Life isn't terrible forever."
Rob Boland... Dubious about Amanda.
Everyone else I can live with... but Jared... Jared...
Tolliver! How'd he make it that far?!?
I was going to say Nick, but Tolliver is actually the more dangerous of two, isn't he? This depends on what scares you more, I guess (questionable father figure vs guy who will just execute you to protect his captain).
I didn't put Arlene for the last one, so I'll put her here.
Jared... I'll save you, Jared...
Captain Stanger... I can forgive everything else he did in that book but killing Danil Bevin is as evil as it gets.
Jared didn't do anything wrong, actually.
Pook! Where is he!?
Adam Tenere, I guess, especially in Fisherman's Hope.
If we don't get married, Seafort is fine, I think.
... Annie?
She can keep Eddie.
Vax Holser would be a good older brother, Alexi would be a good younger brother.
P.T.
Jerence seems like he'd be good based on Children of Hope, I think.
Put Seafort on four and four watch. I won't elaborate further.
If Seafort had transitioned, everyone would have been happier. I think she'd look good dressed like an office lady...
The only difference is hairstyle for most of them... Seafort, I guess.
Am I supposed to choose only one?
Chiefy! He's so nice to Seafort when they drink together... tuck me into bed too, Chiefy...
I think Alexi would be really good at karaoke... I don't know what he should sing, maybe something by Sheena Ringo? lol
We get to see Chris Dakko again, but where's Gregor Attani? He was the one who was actually good!
Rob Boland... He could have been so good, but he manages to be one of the few guys who survives Seafort because he decides being an evil politician is more important than being the sort of man Seafort would be proud of! C'mon!
Derek really annoyed me in the beginning, but he gets likeable pretty fast.
Derek/Nick... Nick/Derek...? Whatever, those two are good.
When Derek says in the epilogue of Fisherman's Hope that Seafort said he was happiest when they were on the Hibernia together, I went, "Get a load of this guy! There's no way he meant that much to Seafort!" but then he's the only one Seafort gets to look in the eyes as he dies... And then Seafort adopts Randy and says all sorts of fascinating stuff about how he felt about Derek to him... I was convinced in the end.
... Happy? I think they'd be awkard for a long time but they'd be good fathers together.
In Prisoner's Hope, when Derek is revealed to be alive after all and Nick gets so happy... and then he has to be mean to him! For no reason! Just be normal!
I wanted to say that they should travel around the plantation on Hope Nation, but they already did that, didn't they... Seafort can take him to Cardiff, I guess.
Convince Amanda to stay home with me instead of going camping with Nick and Derek in the first book, obviously! They'll get along by themselves, right?
I'm not very good at choosing songs, but the one I think fits them best in canon is Take Your Mask Off (Tyler, The Creator).
I know the implication here is a couple that didn't get married in canon, but there's a really good fic about Seafort and Arlene getting ready for their marriage... I want to read about after it too...
Ignoring whatever the original intent was for this question. I'd like to see Seafort get raised by a normal father instead of how his father raised him... Tolliver is funny as a dad, I think.
I don't know if I can imagine anything more brutal than the actual novels...
For some reason, it's Vax and Derek.
Hear me out... Eddie and Annie.
Jared. (<- Playing it safe with the only canon option)
P.T. (<- Playing it safe with the only canon option)
I feel like none of the ships Nick is on go well... If I'm not going to live either way, I'd like to see what happened to the UNS Celestina. Alexi's ship might be nice otherwise.
Civilian, so that I can just be an observer.
Adam Tenere, so Seafort can be my boss. I'll try to be a better dad to Jared, though.
Be mean to Seafort, but in a fatherly (?) way.
Seafort's the most likely to give up halfway, right? But that'd still be too embarrassing...
Does David Feintuch count? If not, will Tolliver actually answer my questions?
This question makes it seem like they weren't all won over without him even trying... I guess he could probably get the couple of officers that didn't like him if he tried, but everyone else already likes him.
Vax, Alexi, Derek, Tolliver, Thorne... Does Chiefy go here too? I'm not saying Nick is easy, I just think he's not that hard (my evidence? look at his relationships with women).
In the foreward Feintuch wrote for the Seafort's Challenge edition, he mentions there are three words he'd like to change in the first book. I'd like to know what they are...
More about Jared and P.T. from the time between Voices of Hope and Patriarch's Hope... Bonus points if Pook is involved somehow.
Jared and Randy! Or P.T. and Randy? Whatever! They all make me sad!
Is putting them in 19th century Royal Navy different enough from what they already do?
I know Feintuch imagined a young Matthew Brodrick for Seafort, but since he's no longer young, we can cast... um... how about Josh O'Connor, so the movie can get more popular. I don't know many modern actors, actually, but let's adapt the book as best we can without changing too much of the plot.
Be-Papas, get back together, you have to go to space.. Serious answer: Let's bring Seafort back to the 80s and get whoever made the LOGH OVA to adapt it. If it has to be done today, maybe Madhouse and directed by Shingo Natsume? (I liked Sonny Boy, but I haven't seen any of his other stuff, sorry)
As for artists, maybe Morimoto Shuu (G-Defend)? I don't know enough magazines to choose one...
Maybe something kind of Knights of the Old Republic-ish, an RPG where you don't play a major character.
I can't really comment much on it since I don't read Japanese very well, but I know it cuts out the thing Nick says pretty early in the first book about how same-sex relationships are pretty normal in the 23rd century... What's that about...
Thank you for introducing Seafort to so many loyal fans! I hope I can read your translation properly someday.
Obviously...
Feintuch or the childhood friend?
Thank you very much for your writing. I'm sad that I'll never get a chance to meet you and ask you all the questions that I'm always thinking about, but your work has changed my life (and so many others') for the better.
A life long obsession, my sanity.
I translated this as a question but I'm not quite sure if it is one... if so, no! No way! Seafort for life!
My favorite book series of all time... a major part of my personality... irrevocably changed the course of my life... what else?
Thank you..!!!!! I know you guys probably won't ever see this, but I really liked your page, and through your page I was able to find so many other old Seafort fans. I hope your lives are going well, and I hope that maybe one day you'll think about Seafort again!
"Someday, we're going to have a talk, You and I."